Oral QuestionDepartment for Culture, Media and Sport

What steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues to help protect the creative industries in the context of AI.

Tabled: 8 January 2026Answered: 15 January 2026

Asked by

Neil Duncan-Jordan

LabourPoole

Answering Minister

the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport

Answer from Hansard

The Minister for Creative Industries, Media and Arts (Ian Murray)

On 15 December we published a progress statement on copyright and artificial intelligence, as required by the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025. By law, we have to publish an independent impact assessment before 18 March. The Department for Culture, Media and Sport and the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology recently held a round of successful technical working groups on copyright and AI, and I am engaging with the creative and tech industries to ensure that our copyright regime values and protects human creativity while unlocking innovation across our creative sector and the wider economy.