{"id":526,"date":"2018-06-06T14:05:05","date_gmt":"2018-06-06T14:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.johnwhittingdale.co.uk\/?p=526"},"modified":"2021-08-18T08:35:57","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T08:35:57","slug":"media-mergers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/?p=526","title":{"rendered":"Media mergers"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; list-style: none; padding-left: 0px; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">\n<li id=\"contribution-0D1A5133-F098-49E6-A6F2-4E798556B549\" class=\"highlight fadeHighlight\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-clip: content-box; border-top-left-radius: 4px; border-top-right-radius: 4px; border-bottom-right-radius: 4px; border-bottom-left-radius: 4px; transition: all 1s ease-in-out; padding: 10px 0px;\">\n<div class=\"col-md-9\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 15px; float: left; width: 705px;\">\n<h2 class=\"memberLink\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; line-height: 1.1; color: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: 1.2em;\"><a class=\"nohighlight\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #428bca; background-position: 0px 0px;\" title=\"View member's contributions\" href=\"https:\/\/hansard.parliament.uk\/search\/MemberContributions?house=Commons&amp;memberId=39\">Mr John Whittingdale (Maldon) (Con)<\/a><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-3 hidden-sm hidden-xs\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 15px; float: left; width: 235px;\">\n<div class=\"share-icon\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; background-image: url('https:\/\/hansard.parliament.uk\/Assets\/svg\/share.svg'); padding-left: 16px; height: 18px; display: inline-block; vertical-align: middle; margin-top: -3px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p><a class=\"link-to-contribution link-text\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: gray; padding-left: 10px; background-position: 0px 0px;\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/hansard.parliament.uk\/Commons\/2018-06-05\/debates\/8DAAAABE-BBBA-437B-A693-350AE743AC2E\/ProposedMediaMergers#contribution-0D1A5133-F098-49E6-A6F2-4E798556B549\" rel=\"popover\" data-placement=\"top\" data-hop-url-shorten-url=\"\/UrlShortener\/ShorternUrl\" data-hop-popover=\"http:\/\/hansard.parliament.uk\/Commons\/2018-06-05\/debates\/8DAAAABE-BBBA-437B-A693-350AE743AC2E\/ProposedMediaMergers#contribution-0D1A5133-F098-49E6-A6F2-4E798556B549\" data-original-title=\"Share this contribution\"><span class=\"share-text\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">&nbsp;Share this contribution<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"inner\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 0px;\">\n<div class=\"contribution col-md-9\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; float: left; width: 705px; line-height: 1.5em; font-size: 1em; word-wrap: break-word;\">\n<p class=\"hs_Para\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;\">May I welcome my right hon. Friend\u2019s statement and congratulate him and his predecessor on their handling of this matter? He will be aware that it is 16 months since the regulatory process got under way. Does he agree that it would be infinitely preferable if the future of Sky was determined by its shareholders and by the market, rather than by the regulatory timetable? Will he therefore give us an assurance that he will do his utmost to resolve the regulatory process before the summer recess begins?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-3 right-column\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; float: left; width: 235px;\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"clearfix\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li id=\"contribution-B46E93E6-452F-44F9-8998-7DE6D9099CE2\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; padding: 10px 0px;\">\n<div class=\"col-md-9\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 15px; float: left; width: 705px;\">\n<h2 class=\"memberLink\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; line-height: 1.1; color: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: 1.2em;\"><a class=\"nohighlight\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #428bca; background-position: 0px 0px;\" title=\"View member's contributions\" href=\"https:\/\/hansard.parliament.uk\/search\/MemberContributions?house=Commons&amp;memberId=4070\">Matt Hancock<\/a><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-3 hidden-sm hidden-xs\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 15px; float: left; width: 235px;\">\n<div class=\"share-icon\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; background-image: url('https:\/\/hansard.parliament.uk\/Assets\/svg\/share.svg'); padding-left: 16px; height: 18px; display: inline-block; vertical-align: middle; margin-top: -3px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p><a class=\"link-to-contribution link-text\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: gray; padding-left: 10px; background-position: 0px 0px;\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/hansard.parliament.uk\/Commons\/2018-06-05\/debates\/8DAAAABE-BBBA-437B-A693-350AE743AC2E\/ProposedMediaMergers#contribution-B46E93E6-452F-44F9-8998-7DE6D9099CE2\" rel=\"popover\" data-placement=\"top\" data-hop-url-shorten-url=\"\/UrlShortener\/ShorternUrl\" data-hop-popover=\"http:\/\/hansard.parliament.uk\/Commons\/2018-06-05\/debates\/8DAAAABE-BBBA-437B-A693-350AE743AC2E\/ProposedMediaMergers#contribution-B46E93E6-452F-44F9-8998-7DE6D9099CE2\" data-original-title=\"Share this contribution\"><span class=\"share-text\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">&nbsp;Share this contribution<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"inner\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 0px;\">\n<div class=\"contribution col-md-9\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; float: left; width: 705px; line-height: 1.5em; font-size: 1em; word-wrap: break-word;\">\n<p class=\"hs_Para\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;\">Absolutely. My goal on the timeline is to consult within a fortnight. That consultation is required by law to take 15 days, which means that,&nbsp;<span id=\"198\" class=\"column-number\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block;\" data-column-number=\"198\">\u200b<\/span>hopefully, within a month, I will be able to get undertakings in which I have full confidence and can then consult on and conclude this process.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr John Whittingdale (Maldon) (Con) &nbsp; &nbsp;Share this contribution May I welcome my right hon. Friend\u2019s statement and congratulate him and his predecessor on their handling of this matter? He will be aware that it is 16 months since the regulatory process got under way. Does he agree that it would be infinitely preferable if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1533,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-speeches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=526"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1813,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526\/revisions\/1813"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}