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<DIV>Hi All,</DIV>
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<DIV>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.</DIV>
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<DIV>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:</DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><FONT size=3><FONT face=Calibri><STRONG>Steven
Timms:</STRONG> 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<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>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.</FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<DIV>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!</DIV>
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