[cma-l] Lobby your MP!

[Steve Buckley]

Dear all

ACT NOW! The Community Radio (Amendment) Order 2010 debate is 
tomorrow afternoon.  Below is what I received from the Lib Dems, but 
we need Labour and Tory MPs to speak for community radio too.

Please write to your MP tonight or tomorrow morning to draw their 
attention to the debate and to support the case for an increased 
Community Radio Fund and for removal of the funding restrictions in 
areas overlapping with small commercial radio stations. Don't forget 
to enclose a copy of the CMA briefing:
http://www.commedia.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/CRAmendmentOrder-policy-briefing-Jan-2010.pdf

Best wishes

Steve


>From: "FOSTER, Don" <FOSTERD at parliament.uk>
>To: "'Steve Buckley'" <sbuckley at gn.apc.org>
>Sender: "CAMPION, Oliver" <CAMPIONO at parliament.uk>
>Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:07:30 +0000
>Subject: RE: Community Radio (Amendment) Order 2010
>
>Dear Mr Buckley,
>
>Thanks for your email. The Liberal Democrats share your concerns 
>about the state of the Community Radio Fund. You may be interested 
>to know that Lord Clement-Jones, our spokesperson on this issue in 
>the Lords, raised this same issue recently. You can find his speech here:
>
>http://services.parliament.uk/hansard/Lords/bydate/20091215/grandcommittees/part005.html
>
>I have passed your comments to Adrian Sanders MP, who will be 
>speaking for the Liberal Democrats tomorrow when the Order is discussed.
>
>Kind regards,
>
>Oliver Campion-Awwad
>Parliamentary Researcher
>Office of Don Foster MP
>Liberal Democrat MP for Bath
>Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media & Sport
>www.donfoster.co.uk