Question follow-through · 53687
Digital Broadcasting: Radio
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether her Department has had discussions with Ofcom on the adequacy of levels of news bulletins in the BBC’s proposals for new DAB radio stations targeted at younger audiences.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Culture, Media and Sport
- Tabled
- 20 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 22 May 2025
- Answer
- 30 May 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
20 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether her Department has had discussions with Ofcom on the adequacy of levels of news bulletins in the BBC’s proposals for new DAB radio stations targeted at younger audiences.
22 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
30 May 2025
Answer published
The BBC is operationally and editorially independent of the government. It is for Ofcom, as the BBC’s independent regulator, to hold the BBC to account in meeting its obligations to provide duly accurate and impartial news to audiences across its services...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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