questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions she has had with Ofcom regarding its ongoing investigations into alleged breaches of due impartiality and material misleadingness by licensed broadcasters; and whether her Department has assessed the wider potential implications of such cases for levels of public confidence in broadcasting regulation.
answerText: Ofcom’s Broadcasting Code includes rules to ensure news, in whatever form, is reported with due accuracy and presented with due impartiality. Factual programmes must also not materially mislead the audience. While ministers and officials have regular disc...
heading: Broadcasting: Regulation