Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what progress has been made on the Department’s review of statutory notices announced as part of the Local News Action Plan in March.

As part of the Local Media Action Plan published in March we announced our intention to conduct a review of all types of statutory notice, to determine whether action is needed to better ensure that communities have access to journalistic scrutiny of local decision making.

As the next stage of that review, we are planning to launch a public consultation on statutory notices by the end of this year.