Question follow-through · 10891
The Observer: Sales
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether she has had discussions with Cabinet Colleagues on the proposed sale of the Observer.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Culture, Media and Sport
- Tabled
- 23 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 28 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 31 Oct 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
23 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether she has had discussions with Cabinet Colleagues on the proposed sale of the Observer.
28 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
31 Oct 2024
Answer published
The Secretary of State for Culture Media and Sport has not had any discussions with Cabinet Colleagues on the proposed sale of the Observer. Consideration of media mergers is a quasi-judicial decision for the DCMS Secretary of State to undertake alone, on...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Tourism
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