Local press

(asked on 19th June 2015) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many local and regional newspapers there were in each of the last five years; whether he has estimated the (a) numbers of such newspapers in any future years and (b) trends in that number; and if he will make a statement.


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Lord Vaizey of Didcot
This question was answered on 26th June 2015

We do not have annual statistics showing the number of operational local newspapers. According to the News Media Association, there has been an overall decline from 1212 local newspapers in 2010 to 1065 in 2015. We have not made any official estimate of the number of such newspapers in any future years.

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