Asked by: John Penrose (Conservative - Weston-super-Mare)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when she plans to respond to the correspondence of 18 December 2023 and 23 January 2024 from the hon. Member for Weston-super-Mare on behalf of a constituent relating to David Hemmings's film Running Scared and the British Archive.
Answered by Julia Lopez - Minister of State (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology)
A reply was sent on 26 February.
Asked by: John Penrose (Conservative - Weston-super-Mare)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
With reference to the Penrose review, published in February 2021, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of the recommendation in that review that Ofcom should promote competition and reduce regulatory burdens in the communications sector.
Answered by Julia Lopez - Minister of State (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology)
Our Future Telecoms Infrastructure Review recognised that promoting competition and stable, long-term regulation were critical to our connectivity ambitions. We embedded these goals into Ofcom’s Statement of Strategic Priorities.
Moreover, work continues across government on the UK’s regulatory frameworks: the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has consulted on reforms to competition and consumer policy; and, the government has set out its vision for modernising the economic regulation of the utilities sectors, including telecommunications.
Asked by: John Penrose (Conservative - Weston-super-Mare)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, when he plans to reply to the letters of 16 July 2020 and 17 August 2020 and telephone call of 10 November 2020 from the hon. Member for Weston-super-Mare on Weston Choral Society, raised on behalf of his constituent Howard Sayer.
Answered by John Whittingdale
A response to the 16 July letter was sent to the Hon Member on 13 August.