Media Oversight: Transfer of Responsibilities

Lord Northbourne Excerpts

Thursday 5th July 2012 Lords Chamber

[Baroness Garden of Frognal]

My Lords, the noble Lord has of course a great deal of experience and expertise in these fields, which is why I come back to the answer that I gave to the noble Lord, Lord Whitty: that it makes a lot of sense to deal with all these issues within one department, which is called the department for media and where expertise from officials resides. That is more likely to be helpful to all the creative industries.

[Lord Northbourne]

My Lords, can the Minister give us any encouragement to believe that an element of social responsibility will be part of the work of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport in being responsible for the media?

[Baroness Garden of Frognal]

I would sincerely hope so, my Lords. Social responsibility is written into all government policies across all departments, and DCMS is certainly involved in that.