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Broadcasting: Political Impartiality

Asked by Carla LockhartDemocratic Unionist PartyDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled Answered 22 January 2025UIN 24495

The question

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.

Answered by Stephanie Peacock

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

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