Written Question·Department for Culture, Media and Sport·UIN 65768

Glastonbury Festival: Kneecap

Tabled: 8 July 2025
Answered: 16 July 2025

Question

Jim Shannon

Democratic Unionist Party — Strangford

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions she has had with Glastonbury organisers on comments made at the festival by Kneecap.

Answer

Chris Bryant
The Culture Secretary has made clear that previous comments made by Kneecap are appalling, and that celebrating and promoting prescribed terrorist organisations is a criminal offence. This Government unequivocally condemns threatening remarks made towards...
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