Oral QuestionDepartment for Culture, Media and Sport

If she will make a statement on her departmental responsibilities.

Tabled: 16 September 2025Answered: 16 October 2025

Asked by

Grahame Morris

LabourEasington

Answering Minister

the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport

Answer from Hansard

The Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport (Lisa Nandy)

Since we last met, the Football Governance Act 2025 has become law. The Independent Football Regulator now has a chair, a chief executive and a board, and it is wasting no time in putting fans back at the heart of the game, where they belong. I know the whole House will welcome the news of the ceasefire in the middle east, which we hope will bring an end to the appalling suffering in Palestine and Israel. I want to take this opportunity to pay tribute to the many fearless Palestinian journalists who have reported so bravely from Gaza—248 lives have been lost. They say that truth dies in the darkness. They will not be forgotten.