HL Deb 06 April 1982 vol 429 cc212-3WA
Lord Auckland

asked Her Majesty's Government:

If they can now announce the remaining members of the independent inquiry into the broadcasting policy aspects of the expansion of Cable.

Lord Belstead

We are glad to announce that the following have now agreed to serve on the inquiry, under the chairmanship of Lord Hunt of Tanworth:

Sir Maurice Hodgson, who has just retired from being Chairman of ICI

Professor James Ring, Professor of Physics at the Imperial College of Science and Technology; Member of the IBA 1974–81.

We are grateful to all three members for being prepared, at short notice, to undertake this onerous but important piece of Government service.

The Secretary of the inquiry will be J. C. Davey, an Assistant Secretary in the Home Office. The address of the inquiry is:

Inquiry into Cable Expansion and Broadcasting Policy,

Whittington House,

19–30 Alfred Place,

London, WC1E 7EJ.

Telephone: 01–637 2355, Ext. 365

I understand that the inquiry is holding its first meeting today, and hopes very shortly to issue a document inviting views on the matters outlined in its terms of reference, which were set out in the statement of 22nd March of my right honourable friend the Home Secretary.