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

To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the remarks by the Prime Minister on 9 December (HC Deb, col 840), what plans they have to set up a working party to take forward the Turn on the Subtitles campaign that includes representatives of (1) that campaign, (2) Government departments, and (3) children's programming broadcasters.

The government is engaging with the Turn On The Subtitles campaign and other stakeholders, including broadcasters, to consider the evidence on the costs and benefits of switching on subtitles by default. A decision on next steps will be made in due course.