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The chair of the Public Accounts Committee has described the scrapping of a £98m digital scheme by the BBC as “depressing”. The corporation abandoned a plan to create an internal digital archive after director general Lord Hall said he had “serious concerns” about the management of the programme. He declared it had "waste...
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...
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