Mr Fearn 393. You welcome the White Paper's endorsement of ITV's role as a provider of public service broadcasting. The most important point is the regional one. We still provide, by a long way, the largest and most complete regional service. We have 27 sub-regions around the country.
People appreciate both our regional news programmes and our other local regional programmes.
As far as we can see into the future, there is a distinct future for those kinds of programmes. In addition, because of history and the way that we operate we still produce a very large number of UK-originated programmes. About 70 per cent of our network programmes are made in this country. These things can continue for a very long time but it depends on how successful we are. If we do not have the funds to make the programmes we cannot do these things, but as far as we can see we are in a position to continue that kind of distinctive service.