United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 53687
Digital Broadcasting: Radio
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20 May 2025
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30 May 2025 · Answer
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Summary
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.
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20 May 2025
Written question
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.
Source: Commons
30 May 2025
Answer
The 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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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2025-05-20/53687
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1804644
- uk · wq-1804644 · source updated 30 May 2025