Communications and Digital Committee

Lords select committee, since 23 April 2007. Its page on the Parliament website.

The Communications and Digital Committee considers the media, digital and the creative industries

Inquiries

• The Online Safety Act: implementation and impact (27 July 2026)
• Arts Council England (8 April 2026)
• BBC Charter Renewal (12 February 2026)
• AI and copyright (3 November 2025)
• Online Safety Act (3 September 2025)
• Media literacy (21 March 2025 to 16 March 2026)
• Competition and Markets Authority (2 January 2025)
• Scaling up - AI and creative tech (4 September 2024 to 13 June 2025)
• Digital competition (21 August 2024)
• Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology (26 January 2024 to 7 February 2024)
• The future of news: impartiality, trust and technology (17 January 2024 to 25 April 2025)
• The work of the BBC (13 July 2023)
• Large language models (7 July 2023 to 21 November 2024)
• Work of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (26 June 2023 to 13 September 2023)
• Ofcom leadership (26 June 2023)
• Review of the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill (10 May 2023 to 12 June 2023)
• Digital exclusion and the cost of living (8 February 2023 to 8 February 2024)
• Online Safety Bill (21 November 2022 to 25 January 2023)
• A creative future (28 July 2022 to 7 July 2023)
• Lawfare and free speech (11 March 2022)
• BBC future funding (3 February 2022 to 16 December 2022)
• Digital Markets Unit (25 January 2022 to 8 February 2022)
• BBC impartiality and editorial standards (3 December 2021 to 11 January 2022)
• The future of Channel 4 (13 August 2021 to 3 November 2022)
• Digital regulation (19 July 2021 to 21 July 2022)
• The future of journalism: follow-up (22 January 2021 to 26 January 2021)
• Freedom of expression online (29 October 2020 to 27 October 2022)
• COVID-19 and the creative industries (22 June 2020 to 1 July 2020)
• Creative industry apprenticeships (22 June 2020 to 30 June 2020)
• The future of journalism (13 February 2020 to 14 October 2021)
• Public service broadcasting in the age of video on demand inquiry (8 March 2019 to 8 March 2019)
• The Internet: to regulate or not to regulate? inquiry (28 March 2018 to 28 March 2018)
• The advertising industry inquiry (5 September 2017 to 5 September 2017)
• Skills for the theatre industry inquiry (10 March 2017 to 10 March 2017)
• Children and the internet inquiry (13 July 2016 to 13 July 2016)
• The sustainability of Channel 4 inquiry (8 March 2016 to 8 March 2016)
• BBC Charter Renewal: public purposes and licence fee inquiry (26 June 2015 to 9 December 2015)
• Press regulation inquiry (10 December 2014 to 10 December 2014)
• Women in news and current affairs broadcasting inquiry (24 July 2014 to 24 July 2014)
• Social media offences inquiry (1 July 2014 to 1 July 2014)
• Broadcast General Election debates (4 December 2013 to 4 December 2013)
• Media plurality (28 March 2013 to 28 March 2013)
• Superfast broadband (14 February 2012 to 18 March 2013)
• The future of investigative journalism (22 July 2011 to 25 July 2012)
• Governance and regulation of the BBC (10 March 2011 to 10 March 2011)
• Regulation of television advertising (27 July 2010 to 3 November 2011)

Organisations it has heard from most

• Ofcom (11)
• BBC (9)
• Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (9)
• Competition and Markets Authority (8)
• Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (8)
• Google (6)
• London School of Economics and Political Science (6)
• University of Cambridge (6)
• Channel 4 (5)
• Enders Analysis (5)
• ITV (5)
• Alan Turing Institute (4)
• Centre for Policy Studies (4)
• Department for Culture, Media and Sport (4)
• DMG Media (4)