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

To ask His Majesty's Government whether they plan to refer the boycott of GB News by advertisers to the Competition and Markets Authority; and what assessment they have made of the implications of this on broadcasting freedoms.

The Government is committed to supporting a free, sustainable, and plural broadcasting landscape, and we want the public to be able to access information from a wide range of sources in order to form their own opinions. However, the placement of adverts is a commercial decision made by advertisers and individual businesses. The Government is not aware of any co-ordinated boycott of GB News by advertisers and has no plans to make a referral to the Competition and Markets Authority.