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Guidance and regulation

• New label-led measures to boost income for UK music creators
  • Detailed guide
  • 22 July 2025
  • Department for Culture, Media and Sport
• The government’s work on music streaming
  • Detailed guide
  • 22 July 2025
  • Department for Culture, Media and Sport and Intellectual Property Office
• Code of Practice for providers of online social media platforms
  • Statutory guidance
  • 12 April 2019
  • Department for Culture, Media and Sport and Closed organisation: Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
• Loot boxes in video games: update on improvements to industry-led protections
  • Detailed guide
  • 18 July 2023
  • Department for Culture, Media and Sport
• DCMS Sectors Economic Estimates Methodology
  • Guidance
  • 8 December 2022
  • Department for Culture, Media and Sport and Closed organisation: Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

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News and communications

• Government secures label-led measures to boost earnings for UK artists
  • 22 July 2025
  • Department for Culture, Media and Sport
  • Press release
• Joe Wicks and government join forces to get children moving
  • 15 July 2025
  • Department of Health and Social Care and Department for Culture, Media and Sport
  • Press release
• Powering Britain's future: Electricity bills to be slashed for over 7,000 businesses in major industry shake-up
  • 22 June 2025
  • Department for Business and Trade, Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street, HM Treasury, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, and Industrial Strategy Advisory Council
  • Press release
• Enter our competition to be Ambassador for a Day in Armenia 2025
  • 14 February 2025
  • World news story
• £60 million boost for creative industries to turbocharge growth
  • 17 January 2025
  • Department for Culture, Media and Sport
  • Press release

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Research and statistics

• Evaluation of the British Fashion Council’s NEWGEN programme
  • 18 July 2025
  • Department for Culture, Media and Sport
  • Research
• Evaluation of the UK Games Fund
  • 18 July 2025
  • Department for Culture, Media and Sport
  • Research
• Economic Estimates: Earnings 2024 for DCMS Sectors
  • 11 June 2025
  • Department for Culture, Media and Sport
  • Official statistics
• Economic Estimates: Employment October 2023 to September 2024 for DCMS Sectors
  • 11 June 2025
  • Department for Culture, Media and Sport
  • National statistics
• Future of TV distribution audience research
  • 8 May 2025
  • Department for Culture, Media and Sport
  • Research

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Policy papers and consultations

• Consultation on The draft Enterprise Act 2002 (Mergers Involving Newspaper Enterprises and Foreign Powers) (No.2) Regulations 2025
  • 16 July 2025
  • Department for Culture, Media and Sport
  • Open consultation
  • Closing date 16 September 2025
• Consultation on The Enterprise Act 2002 (Mergers Involving Newspaper Enterprises and Foreign Powers) Regulations 2024
  • 14 July 2025
  • Department for Culture, Media and Sport
  • Consultation outcome
  • Date closed 09 July 2024
• Creative Industries Sector Plan
  • 23 June 2025
  • Department for Business and Trade and Department for Culture, Media and Sport
  • Policy paper
• Evaluation of the Create Growth Programme (CGP) 2022 to 2024
  • 20 June 2025
  • Department for Culture, Media and Sport
  • Policy paper
• Media Act: supporting documents
  • 6 May 2025
  • Department for Culture, Media and Sport
  • Policy paper

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

• S4C annual report and accounts 2024 to 2025
  • 17 July 2025
  • Department for Culture, Media and Sport
  • Corporate report
• BBC Television Licence Fee Trust statement for the year ending 31 March 2025
  • 15 July 2025
  • BBC
  • Corporate report
• BBC Group annual report and accounts for 2024 to 2025
  • 15 July 2025
  • BBC
  • Corporate report
• S4C annual report and accounts 2023 to 2024
  • 29 July 2024
  • Department for Culture, Media and Sport
  • Corporate report
• BBC Group annual report and accounts for 2023 to 2024
  • 24 July 2024
  • BBC
  • Corporate report

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Organisations

• Department for Culture, Media & Sport
• Prime Minister's Office 10 Downing Street
• Department for Science, Innovation & Technology
• Home Office
• Department for Business & Trade

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• HM Treasury
• Intellectual Property Office
• HM Revenue & Customs
• Cabinet Office
• Department of Health & Social Care
• Government Office for Science
• Ministry of Justice
• Building Digital UK
• Department for Education
• Department for Energy Security & Net Zero
• Department for Work & Pensions
• Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
• Government Actuary's Department
• Homes England

• Competition and Markets Authority
• Council for Science and Technology
• Industrial Strategy Advisory Council