§ Mr. PageTo ask the Lord President of the Council if he will make a statement on the outcome of the Broadcasting Committee's mid-term review of the performance by CCT Productions of its contract to provide the parliamentary broadcasting signals.
§ Mr. NewtonThe contract between Parliamentary Broadcasting Unit Ltd.—PARBUL—and CCT Productions for the generation of the parliamentary broadcasting signals provides for a mid-term review of the financial and editorial aspects of the contract. The halfway point of the five-year contract fell at the end of 1993 and the Broadcasting Committee accordingly commissioned a series of reports on CCT's performance to date. In view of the generally satisfactory nature of these reports the Committee concluded that the present arrangements appeared to be working well and that no changes were called for at this stage. I have arranged for copies of the reports—from CCT, PARBUL, the Supervisor of Parliamentary Broadcasting, the House of Lords Broadcasting Committee, and the Assistant Serjeant at Arms—to be placed in the Library.