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PARLIAMENTARY EARLY DAY MOTION
CHANNEL 4 CHRISTMAS PROGRAMMES (1 December 1993)

Motion Details

That this House deplores the decision by Channel 4 to broadcast as a travesty of Christmas an 'alternative' mixture of programmes, celebrating homosexuality and prostitution; recognises that Christmas is a Christian celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ; applauds the moral lead given over this matter by the Bishops of Peterborough and Malmesbury and by other senior churchmen; recognises that the Channel 4 programmes offend against good taste and decency and are likely to encourage or incite criminal gross indecency and be offensive to public feeling, contrary to section 6(1)(a) of the Broadcasting Act 1990; and calls on the Independent Television Commission to fulfil its statutory duty to do all that it can to secure that its licensee complies with the said Act and, in default, calls on advertisers to boycott the programmes, for those advertisers who remain to be boycotted by decent people, and for this House to bring the Independent Television Commission to account.

Sponsored by:
Sir Edward Leigh (Conservative)

EDMS Sponsor By Party

Party
Votes
%
 
Conservative
25
89%
 
 
Democratic Unionist Party
1
4%
 
 
Ulster Unionist Party
1
4%
 
 
Labour
1
4%
 
Sponsor List (28 sponsors)
Party
Member
Constituency
Con
Sir Rhodes Boyson
Con
Sir Julian Brazier
Con
Sir William Cash
Con
Michael Colvin
Con
Den Dover
Con
David Evans
Con
Dame Peggy Fenner
Con
Lord Framlingham
Con
Mr Christopher Gill
Con
Harry Greenway
Con
Peter Griffiths
Con
Sir Michael Grylls
DUP
Mr Andrew Hunter
Con
Mr Roger Knapman
Con
Sir Edward Leigh (Sponsor)
Gainsborough
Con
Lady Olga Maitland
Con
William Powell
Con
Sir Roger Sims
UUP
The Rev Martin Smyth
Con
Sir Keith Speed
Con
Michael Stephen
Con
Sir Teddy Taylor
Con
Sir Malcolm Thornton
Con
Sir Gerard Vaughan
Lab
Sir Harold Walker
Con
Sir John Ward
Con
Ann Winterton
Con
Sir Nicholas Winterton

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