Broadcasting (Council of Europe Convention)

HC Deb 23 January 1989 vol 145 cc393-4W

Mr. Knight

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what progress has been made towards a Council of Europe convention on broadcasting.

Mr. Renton

Substantial progress towards finalising the convention was made at a conference of Council of Europe Broadcasting Ministers in Stockholm last November, at which I led the United Kingdom delegation. The remaining work on the draft text is now being undertaken by the Ministers' deputies of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, and we hope that the convention will be opened for signature later this year.