[cma-l] Financial Secretary To Treasury Steven Timms MP talks about Community Radio Fund

[Stevensuttie at aol.com]

Hi All,
 
Today the Minister in charge of Digital Britain Stephen Tymms MP (who is  
also the Financial Secretary to the Treasury) was in Salford to talk about  
MediaCity and next weeks budget.
 
We pointed out that Community Radio Fund is currently less than Chris  
Moyles' salary and asked him if there is likely to be anymore money for the  
community radio fund and he said:
 
Steven  Timms: I think one of the points your making which I underline, is  
community radio is great value for money, because as you say it’s a pretty  
modest fund that the government has provided  on the basis of that we’ve 
seen this  pretty extraordinary flowering of a whole new radio sector, and I 
hope that will  go on from strength to strength in the future, I know the 
fund is under pressure  because there are lots more activities that could be 
funded, it’s a limited sum  at the moment. Of course it was never the idea 
that community radio would be  wholey funded by the government, the idea is 
that other funding would be  provided and I know the department for culture 
media and sport are working with  the sector trying to identify other sources 
so that we can see further  developments. But we will carry out a spending 
review later on this year and  that’s when decisions about exactly how much 
money will allocated to the various  parts of government activities so the 
future for the fund and how money will be  in it and the future will be decided 
then. 
ENDS
 
I hope this is useful information. We are expecting lots of politicians in  
Salford over the next few months as they stand outside the MediaCityUK  
buildings... and we'll keep flying the flag for a realistic community radio  
fund!
 
 
Kindest  Regards
Steve Suttie
Station Manager, 94.4FM Salford City  Radio

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