[DTV]

I might be tempted to ditch Parliament from that proposal, in it's current form it does nothing that isn't available on the HoP's own website. Although by that token retransmitting the equivalent of a "world feed" isn't particularly expensive.

BBC Parliament isn't expensive, but I do think it should be spun off from the BBC - possibly in league with the parliamentary authorities and/or with a consortium of the three news broadcasters. Might even use it as a general political events channel, covering press conferences etc. (meaning they no longer have to clog up the news channels) and be able to get some actual parliamentary review programming back. It's just, given the cuts, it remaining a BBC service arguably detracts from quality of the channel than adds anything to it.