World Service Television

HC Deb 29 June 1993 vol 227 cc454-5W

Mr. Mullin

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement on the role Mr. Li Ka Shing has played in the setting up of World Service Television.

Mr. Douglas Hogg

World service television was set up in 1991 as a commercial subsidiary of the BBC with no outside investors. It has since made commercial agreements for the provision of the service in various parts of the world, including one with Hutchvision of Hong Kong in which Mr. Li Ka Shing has an interest.