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HANSARDDraft Broadcasting (Regional Programme-making and Original Productions) (Amendment) Regulations 2025
Draft Broadcasting (Independent Productions) Regulations 2025I beg to move, That the Committee has considered the draft Broadcasting (Regional Programme-making and Original Productions) (Amendment) Regulations 2025.29 Oct 2025HANSARDDraft Broadcasting (Regional Programme-making and Original Productions) (Amendment) Regulations 2025
Draft Broadcasting (Independent Productions) Regulations 2025These regulations are a small part of a much larger piece of ongoing work within the Department and Ofcom to implement the entire Media Act. That work has cross-party support, and…29 Oct 2025HANSARDDraft Football Governance Act 2025 (Specified Competitions) Regulations 2025I beg to move, That the Committee has considered the Draft Football Governance Act 2025 (Specified Competitions) Regulations 2025. It is a great pleasure to serve with you as…28 Oct 2025HANSARDDraft Football Governance Act 2025 (Specified Competitions) Regulations 2025The chairman of the new regulator declared his donations before the said CMS Committee, which endorsed his chairmanship. Implementing this regime to help to protect clubs in…28 Oct 2025HANSARDDraft Football Governance Act 2025 (Specified Competitions) Regulations 2025I will take your guidance, Ms Lewell. In response to the intervention of my hon. Friend the Member for Sheffield South East, I will say that when the Opposition lose the argument,…28 Oct 2025HANSARDDraft Football Governance Act 2025 (Specified Competitions) Regulations 2025I will start where my hon. Friend finished. The whole point of the Football Regulator and this statutory instrument is to give power back to the fans, for the very specific…28 Oct 2025HANSARD Mandatory Digital IDIt is, as always, a great pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Turner. I thank the hon. Member for Perth and Kinross-shire (Pete Wishart) for his speech. It was a very…21 Oct 2025HANSARD Mandatory Digital IDA full consultation will be launched by the end of this year. There are two options that the Government could have taken. We could have started from the position of a fully…21 Oct 2025HANSARD Mandatory Digital IDLet me make some progress and I will give way. I want to read Members this paragraph: “We will develop and establish a trusted and secure service for users to prove who they are,…21 Oct 2025HANSARD Mandatory Digital IDLet me address that point directly. I have already been to Northern Ireland and spoken to all parties in the Northern Ireland Executive, and I have also been to the Republic to…21 Oct 2025HANSARD Mandatory Digital IDOf course it is a consultation. It is about how we get this right, what it looks like, how it is built, how federated data is secured, how we deal with digital inclusion and how…21 Oct 2025HANSARD Mandatory Digital IDThis is about reconnecting citizens with Government. Everyone will have constituents coming to every one of their surgeries with a form they cannot fill out, a piece of…21 Oct 2025HANSARD Mandatory Digital IDLet me finish the first point. There will be available a system that is non-digital for people to use in those particular circumstances. In terms of the way the law works now, it…21 Oct 2025HANSARD Mandatory Digital IDI do not have time. The system brings out affirmative or otherwise information in relation to the specific information that the system requires. Having one central database is the…21 Oct 2025HANSARD Mandatory Digital IDNo, it is not. I cannot remember which hon. Gentleman made the point about over-75s not being digitally excluded. I do not know many over-75s who are looking for work, so if they…21 Oct 2025HANSARDGrassroots Music VenuesAs someone who used to manage a local band called Squeezebox when at university—available at all bad record stores—I understand that grassroots music is the lifeblood of the music…16 Oct 2025HANSARDGrassroots Music VenuesLet me correct the record. I did not say that I was a musician; I said that I managed a band. I would not like that to be incorrectly recorded in Hansard . In any case, I thank…16 Oct 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsThere is no specific duty on owners to keep their buildings in a good state of repair, but local authorities have powers under legislation to take action where a listed building…16 Oct 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsI can assure the hon. Gentleman that the DCMS ministerial team and the entire Government are fully committed to ensuring that there is full access to training and skills in the…16 Oct 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsThis Government applaud and support the role that museums play in educating and inspiring audiences, including in Cornwall and across every part of the country in every Member’s…16 Oct 2025