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Tom Watson

Labour
Commons, West Bromwich East (2001 - present)

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Sky/21st Century Fox: Merger

Commons Chamber on 16 March 201716/03/2017

I thank the Secretary of State for advance notice of her statement. She says that she will go ahead with what she indicated she was going to do last week. That might not sound like a big deal, but it is more than the Chancellor and the Prime Minister mana...

Topical Questions

Commons Chamber on 16 March 201716/03/2017

Ah, very good. That is interesting, because that manifesto promised to lift the number of women on sports’ governing bodies to 25% by 2017, but it is 2017 already, and we have not achieved that. Did the Secretary of State think that nobody would notice, o...

Topical Questions

Commons Chamber on 16 March 201716/03/2017

Does the Secretary of State feel bound by the 2015 Conservative party manifesto?

Sky/21st Century Fox: Proposed Merger

Commons Chamber on 6 March 201706/03/2017

I thank the Secretary of State for advance notice of this statement and for writing to me on Friday setting out her intentions. I am also extremely grateful that she has come to the House at the earliest possible opportunity following notification of the...

Leaving the EU: Creative Industries

Commons Chamber on 9 February 201709/02/2017

When I look at the stylish men and women on the Government Front Bench, I think that each and every one of them—except, perhaps, the Under-Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, the hon. Member for Reading East (Mr Wilson)—could be models on the...

Sky: 21st Century Fox Takeover Bid

Commons Chamber on 20 December 201620/12/2016

We have seen this bid before. I know that Christmas is a time for TV repeats, but this one was not a hit the first time round and is no more popular now. More than 135,000 people have already signed an online petition calling for the bid to be referred to...

Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence (Ratification of Convention) Bill

Commons Chamber on 16 December 201616/12/2016

On a point of order, Mr Speaker. Yesterday, the Culture Secretary agreed to come back to the Dispatch Box if a further security breach were to be revealed at the national lottery. In the last few minutes, the Gambling Commission has published a document s...

Topical Questions

Commons Chamber on 15 December 201615/12/2016

Can the Secretary of State give the House her absolute assurance that Britain’s national lottery is safe? Will she commit to come back to the Dispatch Box if there are any further revelations of security breaches at Camelot?

Topical Questions

Commons Chamber on 15 December 201615/12/2016

Happy Christmas to you and your family, Mr Speaker, and to the staff of the House. In the light of recent data security breaches, does the Secretary of State have confidence in the operational security of the National Lottery, and that Camelot is opera...

Creative Industries

Commons Chamber on 3 November 201603/11/2016

In the post-Brexit economy, the creative industries will be more important than ever. Those 2 million jobs the Secretary of State mentioned, in music, TV production, film, video games, art, design, publishing, dance, drama and literature, are one of our s...

Points of Order

Commons Chamber on 1 November 201601/11/2016

On a point of order, Mr Speaker. I misattributed a quote earlier. I was in error about which Prime Minister’s promise to the Dowlers is not being kept. It is David Cameron’s promise that is not being kept, not the current Prime Minister’s. I have put that...

Press Matters

Commons Chamber on 1 November 201601/11/2016

On a point of order, Mr Speaker.

Press Matters

Commons Chamber on 1 November 201601/11/2016

What a sad day this is. I am at least grateful to the Secretary of State for giving me an advance copy of her statement an hour ago—947 days after all parties reached an agreement to implement in full the recommendations of the Leveson inquiry. The Pri...

Broadcasting

Commons Chamber on 18 October 201618/10/2016

I am enjoying the hon. Gentleman’s contribution. I have not been party political about the Scottish six o’clock news and have never thought about it in detail—I am the new kid—but I am trying to understand whether his position has changed. When I was doin...

Broadcasting

Commons Chamber on 18 October 201618/10/2016

My memory is not great and I have only been reading into the brief for 10 days, but I think that the figure is about £60 million. Does the right hon. Gentleman envisage that being an ongoing demand on the BBC, or will it be a one-off pot as a result of th...

Broadcasting

Commons Chamber on 18 October 201618/10/2016

Does the right hon. Gentleman not think that there may be a chance with that development of an onerous bureaucracy being created that may cost the licence payer more, and may mean that the expertise in commissioning content is diminished?

Broadcasting

Commons Chamber on 18 October 201618/10/2016

I welcome the Minister’s reassurance about that. We will work constructively with the Government to make sure there is a framework so that the BBC can actually achieve its targets. As Andrew Rajan wrote only last week: “there have been decades of lip-s...

Broadcasting

Commons Chamber on 18 October 201618/10/2016

I am; I am feeling it, anyway. I have nothing against Benedict Cumberbatch and Eddie Redmayne—I admire their talent hugely and they are great ambassadors for our country—but we need more people like Julie Walters, Christopher Ecclestone and Paul McGann...

Broadcasting

Commons Chamber on 18 October 201618/10/2016

Ministers are nodding in support of that, so I hope that they can reassure me that the new and explicit commitment to diversity will also cover social class. I grew up in an era when working class actors such as Michael Caine, Glenda Jackson and Julie Wal...

Broadcasting

Commons Chamber on 18 October 201618/10/2016

That is a very insightful point about something that we can work together to monitor. I was talking about employing people from every social background. The BBC has a duty to reflect the nation it serves. That means informing and entertaining licence f...

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