they could also be seen on politics live, prompting neil faragher to ask on monday...wing day, several viewers spotted those same slogans on breakfast, causing jackie baker to email... well, the same issue arose to a lesser extent last week when the bbc set for programmes like politics live at the labour conference included the party's logo and branding — but less prominently than with the conservatives this week. we asked bbc news about this, and they told us... a number of bbc programmes and journalists had a presence at the conservative party conference this week — as they did last week for labour — and in both cases, the major speeches were shown live on the news channel. but overall, there has been a considerable reduction in the bbc�*s conference coverage. in previous years, bbc parliament has broadcast the major parties�* annual gatherings in full, along with highlights of the smaller parties�* conferences. but this time round, those tuning into bbc parliament were offered instead the proceedings of the scottish and welsh parliaments and northern ireland assembl

they could also be seen on politics live, prompting neil faragher to ask on monday: the following day scottish and welsh parliaments and northern ireland assembly — often repeats from previous debates on previous days, like this debate in the scottish parliament shown this monday, but actually from last thursday. thank you. i ask the scottish government when it will implement part three of the transport scotland act 2018 to allow local authorities to bring forward proposals to directly run bus services in theirarea. as i outlined in my letter to all members injune, to implement part three of the act resumed earlier this year, following a pause necessitated for the pandemic. the reason for this change is money. the bbc has to make substantial savings and as part of its programme of cuts, rolling coverage of the party conferences has ended for the first time since the 1960s. it's not clear exactly how much money this saves, given that the filming of conferences is happening anyway and shared on a pooled basis between the bbc, itn and sky. and the decision went down badly with mps when i