Community Radio

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Culture, Media and Sport – in the House of Commons am 2:30 pm ar 2 Mawrth 2009.

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Photo of Alan Beith Alan Beith Chair, Justice Committee, Chair, Justice Committee 2:30, 2 Mawrth 2009

Does the Secretary of State realise how difficult it is in small communities of populations up to 20,000, as in the Alnwick area served by the popular Lionheart radio, to raise funding from small business and local advertising? It will get even more difficult during the recession, so what ideas is he putting to the review as the Government's view of how we can have a sustainable future for community radio?