Question follow-through · 45313
Music: Streaming
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of requiring music streaming platforms to obtain a broadcasting licence to help ensure that artists are fairly remunerated for their work.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Culture, Media and Sport
- Tabled
- 8 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 24 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 24 Apr 2025 · 16 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
8 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of requiring music streaming platforms to obtain a broadcasting licence to help ensure that artists are fairly remunerated for their work.
24 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
24 Apr 2025
Answer published
In February 2024, the Intellectual Property Office published independent research examining the potential economic impact of equitable remuneration on performers and the music market in the UK. The research found that applying the ‘broadcast model’ of equ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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