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Question for Department for Culture, Media and Sport

UIN 202202, tabled on 24 June 2014

Question

Mr Gregory Campbell
Democratic Unionist Party
East Londonderry
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what plans he has for the issuing of further licences for local television.

This answer is the replacement for a previous holding answer.

Answer

Mr Edward Vaizey
Conservative
Wantage
Commons

Answered on

18 July 2014

As part of our Local TV licencing programme, Ofcom advertised the following locations with a deadline of 7 January 2014: Barnstaple, Basingstoke, Derry/Londonderry, Gloucester, Guildford, Limavady, Luton, Maidstone, Plymouth, Reading and Salisbury and Ofcom is in the process of considering the resulting applications. Out of these locations, Ofcom only received applications for five: Reading, Basingstoke, Guildford, Salisbury and Maidstone. The licences for Reading, Salisbury and Guildford have been awarded by Ofcom (on 3 June 2014) and Ofcom expects to be able to make a decision on the remaining two locations, namely Basingstoke and Maidstone shortly.

Ofcom plans to invite applications for further areas later this year.

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Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
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