Written Question
Monday 15th December 2025
Asked by:
Andy Slaughter (Labour - Hammersmith and Chiswick)
Question
to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make it her policy to include measures to help tackle the resale of live event tickets in the forthcoming King’s Speech.
Answered by Ian Murray
- Minister of State (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology)
This Government is committed to putting fans back at the heart of live events and we recently announced a series of measures to end the scourge of ticket touting and protect consumers on the ticket resale market. We will legislate to introduce these measures when parliamentary time allows.
Written Question
Tuesday 30th July 2024
Asked by:
Andy Slaughter (Labour - Hammersmith and Chiswick)
Question
to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether she has sought advice on whether witnesses at Part One of the Leveson Inquiry (a) lied to and (b) misled that Inquiry.
Answered by Stephanie Peacock
- Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Culture, Media and Sport)
Part One of the Leveson Inquiry and the subsequent police investigations were chaired by judge, Lord Leveson, and was independent of Government.
Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 20 Oct 2022
Oral Answers to Questions
"May I welcome the latest team of Law Officers to their places? I think I missed a stray Solicitor General in the summer recess, between the incumbent and the hon. and learned Member for Cheltenham (Alex Chalk), but it is very hard to keep up these days.
We all know …..."Andy Slaughter - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 07 Jul 2022
Oral Answers to Questions
"The last time we debated this issue in this Chamber, the Attorney General told me that
“any allegation of domestic abuse or sexual assault on victims is horrendous. On no account does anyone in this Government condone that behaviour.”—[Official Report, 26 May 2022; Vol. 715, c. 414.]
…..."Andy Slaughter - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 26 May 2022
Oral Answers to Questions
"May I add my welcome to our friends from Ukraine?
In January, the Attorney General told the House:
“This Government take tackling domestic abuse and hate crime extremely seriously”.—[Official Report, 6 January 2022; Vol. 706, c. 142.]
Why, therefore, has she spent the months since then taking …..."Andy Slaughter - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 24 Mar 2022
Oral Answers to Questions
"The Levelling Up Secretary has been boasting for weeks that the Government will seize oligarchs’ mansions, but they have no idea how to do so legally, and by the time they work it out the culprits will be clean away. The Justice Secretary is a sudden convert to anti-SLAPP legislation, …..."Andy Slaughter - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 10 Feb 2022
Oral Answers to Questions
"Lord Agnew resigned as a Government Minister because the Treasury
“appears to have no knowledge of, or little interest in, the consequences of fraud to our economy or society.”—[Official Report, House of Lords, 24 January 2022; Vol. 818, c. 20.]
The Secretary of State for Business, Energy and …..."Andy Slaughter - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 10 Feb 2022
Oral Answers to Questions
"Thanks for that peroration but, to come back to reality, this week the Leader of the Opposition was obstructed while entering this House by disorder on the streets outside following the Prime Minister’s inflammatory remarks at that Dispatch Box. It is the Attorney General’s job to advise Ministers, including the …..."Andy Slaughter - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 06 Jan 2022
Oral Answers to Questions
"Thank you very much, Mr Speaker. It is a pleasure to be shadowing the Solicitor General—we have missed him in Shepherd’s Bush.
Last month the Court of Appeal ruled the conviction of Ziad Akle, prosecuted by the Serious Fraud Office, unsafe because there was a material failure of disclosure that …..."Andy Slaughter - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 22 Jun 2021
Events Research Programme
"My constituency is home to internationally-known theatre and music venues and exhibition centres. They tell me they are still waiting for promised Government funds, an insurance scheme that gives them certainty on reopening and, specifically, the publication of the events research programme report. One industry source told me today that …..."Andy Slaughter - View Speech
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