Question follow-through · 89400
Newspaper Press: Subversion
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department has taken to help prevent British newspapers from being subject to foreign influence.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Culture, Media and Sport
- Tabled
- 11 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 13 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 17 Nov 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
11 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department has taken to help prevent British newspapers from being subject to foreign influence.
13 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Nov 2025
Answer published
This Government is committed to a pluralistic media landscape, and it is vital that the UK has in place strong measures to protect this. The Foreign State Influence (FSI) media merger regime is a key part of this; it prevents foreign states from being abl...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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