"My Lords, will the activities of the regulator be confined to football or might other sports be included; for example, cricket?..." Lord Trefgarne - View Speech
"My Lords, is it not the case that the old-fashioned shortwave transmission systems are much more difficult to interfere with than the more modern systems? Therefore, can the BBC be persuaded to concentrate on that system when broadcasting to Ukraine and thereabouts?..." Lord Trefgarne - View Speech
"My Lords, following the question asked by the noble Lord, Lord Griffiths, I heard recently of a case in which an unmarried mother with four children who had not paid her TV licence was sent to prison for a month. Her children had to go into care, with a cost …..." Lord Trefgarne - View Speech
"All I can say at the moment is that the letter to which the noble Lord, Lord Rooker, referred has not gone quite yet...." Lord Trefgarne - View Speech
"My Lords, with your Lordships’ permission, I will speak for a few seconds only. My father was born in 1894, so he was just old enough to serve in the First World War, which he did—first in the Devonshire Yeomanry, then in the South Wales Borderers, and finally in the …..." Lord Trefgarne - View Speech