Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many times (a) Russia Today and (b) Sputnik has been found to be in breach of its legal requirement to report news with due impartiality in the last three years.

Ofcom has confirmed that, in the last three years, it has found RT in breach of the requirements to ensure that news is presented with due impartiality on two occasions. Ofcom’s full findings can be found in the links below. Ofcom has not published any findings about the service Sputnik.

News RT, 22 May 2014, 07:00

Issue 261 of Ofcom’s Broadcast Bulletin, published on 8 September 2014: https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0020/50069/obb261.pdf

News RT, 1 March 2014, 16:00, 3 March 2014, 21:00, 5 March 2014, 09:00, 6 March 2014, 12:00

Issue 266 of Ofcom’s Broadcast Bulletin, published on 10 November 2014 https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0025/47635/obb266.pdf