Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union on maintaining current broadcast licensing arrangements during the transition period after March 2019.

We continue to engage constructively with the Department for Exiting the European Union to ensure that we provide our broadcasters with stability and certainty in the period leading up to the UK’s departure from the EU.

As the Prime Minister set out, the UK is seeking a strictly time-limited implementation period, based on the existing structure of EU rules and regulations, during which the UK and the EU would continue to have access to one another’s markets on current terms.