Question follow-through · 92476
Broadcasting Programmes: Members
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what recent assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of Ofcom’s Broadcasting Code in regulating hon. Members presenting television programmes.
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- Answering body
- Department for Culture, Media and Sport
- Tabled
- 18 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 20 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 28 Nov 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
18 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what recent assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of Ofcom’s Broadcasting Code in regulating hon. Members presenting television programmes.
20 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 Nov 2025
Answer published
The Government is deeply concerned about the blurring of news and fact with opinion and polemic in the broadcast media environment. As the Secretary of State has set out, it is a dangerous place for democracy if people cannot trust what they see and hear....
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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