Welsh... Television (Enhancement) (Repeal) Bill 2020

#Welsh and Scottish Gaelic Language Television (Enhancement) (Repeal) Bill

 

*A Bill to repeal The Welsh and Scottish Gaelic Language Television (Enhancement) Act 2016.*

 

BE IT ENACTED by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

 

**1 Repeal of the Welsh and Scottish Gaelic Language Television (Enhancement) Act 2016**

The Welsh and Scottish Gaelic Language Television (Enhancement) Act 2016 is repealed.

 

**2 Extent, short title and commencement**

(1) This Act extends to the whole of the United Kingdom.

(2) This Act comes into force on the day of royal assent.

(3) This Act may be cited as the Welsh and Scottish Gaelic Language Television (Enhancement) (Repeal) Act 2020.

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This Bill was submitted by Sir /u/cthulhuiscool2 KD CB CVO KBE PC MP AM, Member of Parliament for Surrey, on behalf of the Libertarian Party UK.

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Mr Deputy Speaker,

The Welsh and Scottish Gaelic Language Television (Enhancement) Act is another stain upon the record of this place. The guidelines of the Act are arbitrary and overbearing. For example, subsection 2(1) states 'S4C and BBC Alba shall be mainly broadcast in HD, at least 60% of its programmes from 4pm until 12 (midnight) must be in HD' and subsection 2(4) states '5% of the BBC dramas shall be filmed in both Welsh and English, but they shall be shown first in Welsh on S4C.' Mr Deputy Speaker, we must ask why? The Act assumes the micromanagement of broadcasting with regulation that has no value. Yet it is my belief the finer details of broadcasting are best left to the production of the channels themselves. Moreover, the promotion of languages is best left to the assemblies and parliaments of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. It is in the interests of removing the red tape of bureaucracy that I commend this Bill to the House.