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Bill Documents
9 Nov 2023 - Impact Assessments
Media Bill Overarching Impact Assessment - Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Media Act 2024

Found: Commercial radio deregulation 32.


Departmental Publication (Policy paper)
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Nov. 08 2023

Source Page: Media Bill: supporting documents
Document: Overarching impact assessment (PDF)

Found: Commercial radio deregulation 32.


Bill Documents
5 Dec 2023 - Written evidence
Written evidence submitted by the Broadcast 2040+ Campaign (MB07)
Media Act 2024

Found:   Boom Radio: Boom Radio is a digital radio start-up, using DAB and online technology to broadcast


Select Committee
News UK
FON0055 - The future of news: impartiality, trust and technology

Written Evidence Mar. 07 2024

Inquiry: The future of news: impartiality, trust and technology
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Communications and Digital Committee

Found: Our national broadcast brands include talkSPORT, Times Radio, TalkTV and Virgin Radio UK, and we


Select Committee
All-Party Parliamentary Group on Commercial Radio
DMB0047 - Pre-legislative scrutiny of the Draft Media Bill

Written Evidence May. 26 2023

Committee: Culture, Media and Sport Committee (Department: Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport)

Found: DMB0047 - Pre-legislative scrutiny of the Draft Media Bill All-Party Parliamentary Group on Commercial


Written Question
Nicotine: Products
Monday 20th May 2024

Asked by: Rachael Maskell (Labour (Co-op) - York Central)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will take steps to ban the advertising of nicotine products in (a) Formula One and (b) other sports; and if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of nicotine advertising on public health.

Answered by Andrea Leadsom - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)

Vaping can play a role in helping adult smokers to quit, but the Government is concerned about the worrying rise in vaping among children, with youth vaping tripling in the last three years and one in five children having now used a vape. This is extremely worrying given the unknown long-term health impacts and the addictive nature of the nicotine contained in vapes.

Collectively, the Tobacco and Related Products Regulations 2016, the Communications Act 2003, the UK Code of Broadcast Advertising, and the Broadcast Code outline restrictions on the marketing and promotion of vapes. This includes a ban on advertising on television, radio, and through information society services, such as internet advertising or commercial email.

It is still concerning, however, that vapes are still being marketed and advertised to children, including in sports settings. As the Government stated during the Commons Committee Stage of the Tobacco and Vapes Bill, we have committed to explore the steps we can take to further restrict vape advertising and sponsorship, and we will revert with further updates on proposals for the Report Stage.


Parliamentary Research
Media Bill: HL Bill 44 of 2023–24 - LLN-2024-0006
Feb. 12 2024

Found: update the regulatory framework governing public service broadcasting, on-demand programme services and commercial


Bill Documents
12 Feb 2024 - Briefing papers
Media Bill: HL Bill 44
Media Act 2024

Found: update the regulatory framework governing public service broadcasting, on-demand programme services and commercial


Select Committee
First Special Report - Draft Media Bill: Government Responses to the Committee’s Twelfth and Thirteenth Reports of Session 2022–23

Special Report Nov. 17 2023

Committee: Culture, Media and Sport Committee (Department: Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport)

Found: We were pleased to see the Committee’s support for the measures on connected audio devices and commercial


Written Question
Electronic Cigarettes: Advertising
Tuesday 30th January 2024

Asked by: Kirsten Oswald (Scottish National Party - East Renfrewshire)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether it is her Department's policy to ban the promotion and advertisement of vaping products (a) in sports venues and (b) on sports kits.

Answered by Andrea Leadsom - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)

The Tobacco and Related Products Regulations 2016 outline restrictions on the marketing and promotion of vapes, and are available at the following link:

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/507/contents/made

This includes a ban on advertising on television, radio and through information society services, such as internet advertising or commercial email. We also work closely with the Advertising Standards Authority, which investigates advertising on social media platforms.

There are no current plans to ban the promotion and advertisement of vaping products in sports venues and on sports kits. The Government’s response to the recent smoking and vaping consultation sets out our plan to introduce legislation as soon as possible. The legislation will introduce measures to crack down on youth vaping by restricting flavours, point of sale, and packaging for vaping products.