Select Committee · Public Accounts Committee

DCMS: Broadband, Gambling and Unboxed

Status: Closed Opened: 13 Jan 2023 Closed: 9 May 2024

The Committee will question senior officials at the DCMS Department to follow up on the Committee’s previous inquiries into gambling regulation and the stalled rollout of gigabit broadband across the UK . There will also be questions on the Government’s UNBOXED festival following an investigation by the National Audit Office . The festival took place … Show more

Oral evidence sessions

1 session
Date Witnesses
23 Jan 2023 Emran Mian · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, Jeremy Pocklington CB · Ministry of Defence, Paul Norris · Building Digital UK, Polly Payne · Department for Culture, Media and Sport, Sarah Healey · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, Susannah Storey · Department for Culture, Media and Sport View ↗

Who gave evidence

6 witnesses
WitnessOrganisationSessions
Emran Mian · Director General, Regeneration Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities 1
Jeremy Pocklington CB · Permanent Secretary Ministry of Defence 1
Paul Norris · Chief Executive Building Digital UK 1
Polly Payne · Director General, Culture, Sport and Civil Society Department for Culture, Media and Sport 1
Sarah Healey · Permanent Secretary Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport 1
Susannah Storey · Permanent Secretary Department for Culture, Media and Sport 1

Correspondence

2 letters
DateDirectionTitle
12 Jun 2023 Correspondence from Sarah Munby, Permanent Under-Secretary of State, re DCMS re…
7 Feb 2023 Correspondence Dame Meg Hillier MP, Chair, Committee of Public Accounts, to Sar…