Television Programmes (Quality)

HC Deb 03 March 1997 vol 291 c499W

27. Mr. Grocott

To ask the Secretary of State for National Heritage if she will undertake a review of the quality of television programmes. [16724]

Mrs. Virginia Bottomley

The monitoring of the quality of television programmes on independent television and the BBC is the responsibility of the Independent Television Commission and the BBC board of governors respectively. The ITC publishes an annual review of the performance of Channel 3 licensees and Channel 4 and the BBC governors report each year on the corporation's performance in the BBC annual report.