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Title: Commons debate on BBC
Post by Forum Admin on Jul 11^th, 2006, 8:08am

This is the link to the Hansard Report on the Commons debate yesterday on the new BBC Charter.

The Culture Secretary, Tessa Jowell, was broadly supportive of the BBC. But she announced that the National Audit Office would be called in to test its efficiency in future.

The Tory spokesman, Hugo Swire, called for Ofcom to be given regulatory power over the BBC.

He set out his thoughts in a piece in the Guardian.