Select committee: Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee
Recommendation 6
Thirteenth Report - Draft Media Bill: Final Report
Published 22 Sep 2023
Paragraph 34
Addressed to Department for Culture, Media and Sport
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Recommendation (the committee's words)
The increased flexibility of the public service remit should be accompanied by a lower threshold for Ofcom to intervene if it considers that a Public Service Broadcaster is failing to meet its remit. The current bar of “serious” is too high. Enabling Ofcom to step in earlier would protect the regime and increase public confidence that the flexibility of the new remit will not be accompanied by a decline in standards. We recommend that the Bill should lower the threshold at which Ofcom can intervene to protect the public service broadcast regime, enabling it to step in before concerns about whether a Public Service Broadcaster is meeting its remit have already become serious.
From: Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee, Thirteenth Report - Draft Media Bill: Final Report (HC 1807), paragraph 34, 22 September 2023
Government response
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