Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Leader of the House

Oral Answers to Questions

Hywel Williams Excerpts
Monday 25th October 2010

(13 years, 6 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Jeremy Hunt Portrait Mr Hunt
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We faced severe challenges in regard to public spending. We managed to secure that public spending for the next four years, and at the same time we addressed something that the hon. Lady’s party did not address at all: the fact that over the past five years the weekly reach of S4C had halved. I think that what we have done is an achievement of which we can be proud.

Hywel Williams Portrait Hywel Williams (Arfon) (PC)
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The private sector of television production is very important as a generator of wealth and jobs in my constituency. What assessment has the Secretary of State made of the effects of his cuts on that vital sector—a sector that, if I may say so, only the stupidest of Governments would attack in the middle of a recession?