The BBC is facing a parliamentary inquiry after admitting wasting £100m on its failed Digital Media Initiative. The chair of the Public Accounts Committee, Margaret Hodge, told the Sunday Times her committee would “call the people responsible for what went wrong”. It may mean former director general Mark Thompson returning ...
The chair of the Public Accounts Committee has described the scrapping of a £98m digi...
The alternative press regulations set out by the newspaper industry are more practica...
Six MPs from the Media, Culture and Sport Select Committee have written to the Privy ...
Former Paralympian Baroness Grey-Thompson has criticised the Government's approach to...
Save Our Royal Mail press release The Save Our Royal Mail campaign has welcomed the decision of the National Federation of Sub-Postmasters (NFSP) to call for a po...
Labour press release Clive Efford MP, Labour's Shadow Minister, responding to the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee pre-legislative scrutiny of the draft ...
SNP press release Commenting on the tobacco ban – which ends the open display of tobacco products in large shops and sales from self-service tobacco vending machi...
Margaret Hodge said the Public Accounts Committee intended to pursue those accountable for the BBC’s failed IT programme. “One of the principles that we on the Pu...
Margaret Hodge said the £2.2bn Lottery investment in the Olympics still needed to be paid back. "£2.2billion of lottery money went in to fund the Olympics, so a l...
Labour press release Participation in school sport has spent the last two years going backwards at the time we should have been building the Olympic legacy, accor...
Department of Culture, Media and Sport WMS: EDUCATION, YOUTH, CULTURE AND SPORT COUNCIL The Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries (Ed Vaiz...
24/05/2013 on World at One, BBC Radio 4
