Written Question·Department for Culture, Media and Sport·UIN 24495

Broadcasting: Political Impartiality

Tabled: 16 January 2025

Answered: 22 January 2025

Question

Carla Lockhart

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of broadcasting regulations on the impartiality of news coverage in Northern Ireland.

Answer

Stephanie Peacock

The regulation of due impartiality in broadcast news is a matter for the independent regulator Ofcom.