7. 6. Statement: Broadcasting in Wales

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 4:55 pm on 21 June 2016.

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Photo of Julie Morgan Julie Morgan Labour 4:55, 21 June 2016

Thank you very much. Just a few quick points. I was pleased to sign Lee Waters’s letter, and I hope that that will get a result. ‘Casualty’ is being filmed up on the Gabalfa estate next week, so everybody’s very thrilled about that, but I just reiterate the points that people have made that it could be filmed anywhere in terms of portraying anything, really, about Welsh life and how Wales is seen. Obviously, this is a point that’s made strongly in the Welsh Affairs Committee report that’s just been published. So, I don’t know if he’s got a comment about whether there’s anything we can actually do about that. That was the first point.

Secondly, I just wanted to raise the issue about how people actually get their news in Wales. I think the BBC reckons, doesn’t it, that they reach about 60 per cent of people in Wales with Radio Cymru, Radio Wales and all the other news programmes. What about that other 40 per cent, and what can we do to reach them so that they do get some Welsh current affairs news, which will help, really, to make the public in Wales more informed for the elections and for the referendum and having specifically Welsh related issues?