Written Question·Department for Culture, Media and Sport·UIN 53687
Digital Broadcasting: Radio
Tabled: 20 May 2025
Answered: 30 May 2025
Question
Max Wilkinson
Liberal Democrat — Cheltenham
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether her Department has had discussions with Ofcom on the adequacy of levels of news bulletins in the BBC’s proposals for new DAB radio stations targeted at younger audiences.
Answer
Stephanie PeacockThe BBC is operationally and editorially independent of the government. It is for Ofcom, as the BBC’s independent regulator, to hold the BBC to account in meeting its obligations to provide duly accurate and impartial news to audiences across its services...
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