He plans to phase in a 30% quota of jobs for non-whites by 2003, and to impose it also on firms seeking contracts from the ministry.

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Ofcom also proposed that the changing nature of TV would mean that ITV1 should be allowed to phase out an hour-and-a-half of non-news regional programming a week in 2005, with some of those responsibilities passing to the BBC.

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