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Department: Ministry of Justice

Oral Answers to Questions

Philip Davies Excerpts
Thursday 5th September 2013

(10 years, 7 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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John Bercow Portrait Mr Speaker
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On that subject, I call Mr Philip Davies.

Philip Davies Portrait Philip Davies (Shipley) (Con)
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Does the Secretary of State agree that the biggest problem with the lack of diversity at the BBC is the political viewpoint of the people who work there? To that end, what is she saying to Lord Hall, who has started by recruiting James Purnell to a highly paid job without any advert whatsoever, and he has started to recruit his new Labour chums to senior positions in the BBC too? Does she agree that it should be the British Broadcasting Corporation, not the Blairite Broadcasting Corporation?