[cma-l] Media Plurality (Wales) — Westminster Hall debate 13th October 2015

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Mr Christopher Chope in the Chair - in Westminster Hall at 2:30 pm on 13th
October 2015.

*Alun Cairns, The Lord Commissioner of Her Majesty's Treasury, The
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Wales*

The Department for Culture, Media and Sport is working closely with Ofcom
to support Mold’s application to extend services to Wrexham, which I know a
number of Welsh Members on both sides have raised with the Minister for
Culture and the Digital Economy, my hon. Friend the Member for Wantage (Mr
Vaizey).

With only 10 stations, however, Wales does not appear to have embraced
community radio in the same way as Scotland has, with its 26 stations.
Community radio is especially important for rural areas that are
under-served by radio as a whole. Stations such as Tudno FM in Llandudno,
MônFM in Anglesey and Radio Glan Clwyd in Bodelwyddan are well established.
They provide a fantastic and valuable resource for their communities,
broadening the choice of services, and are examples that can be built on to
deal with some of the gaps elsewhere in Wales that I have highlighted. But
there are no community stations in mid or west Wales. I want to look at
that with DCMS and Ofcom as part of the planning for the next round of
community radio licensing. The Minister for Culture and the Digital Economy
mentioned that when he responded to the debate on community radio held on 8
September, which was led by my hon. Friend the Member for Cannock Chase
(Amanda Milling).


*Hansard source:*
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201516/cmhansrd/cm151013/halltext/151013h0002.htm#151013h0002.htm_spnew5

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