Recommendation L86: Include Online in Plurality
From An Inquiry into the Culture, Practices and Ethics of the Press, published 29 November 2012.
Recommendation
Online publication should be included in any market assessment for consideration of plurality.
In brief (written by this site)
The Inquiry recommended that online publication be included in market assessments for media plurality. In August 2014, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport concluded that online publications should be included within the scope of any new measurement framework, noting that news and current affairs content is most relevant to plurality (Department for Culture, Media and Sport response, Aug 2014).
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Government response
Taking into consideration the consultation response and Lord’s Committee report, the Government’s conclusions are therefore: Online should be included within the scope of any new measurement framework. The type of content which is most relevant to media plurality is news and current affairs.
Blanket government agreement does not establish acceptance or delivery by each addressee. Some response passages cover groups of recommendations.
Scope of the government response
PM David Cameron responded to all 92 recommendations with a single statement accepting them "in principle" or "in part". No per-recommendation response was published.
Delivery
No statement on delivery from UK Government has been found in the sources searched (last checked 24 February 2026). This is separate from the response above.
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Who has spoken
- UK Government
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