To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that young listeners and viewers benefit from the Public Service Broadcasting Advisory Panel in the context of a children's media representative not being appointed to that panel.

The Government is supportive of a modern system of public service broadcasting (PSB) that remains relevant and can continue to meet the needs of UK audiences of all ages in the future. That is why we are conducting a strategic review of PSB – to work out how best to achieve this in light of the challenges the sector is currently facing.

Advice from the Government’s expert PSB Advisory Panel is one element of that review, which draws on multiple sources including ofcom’s latest review of PSB (‘Small Screen: Big Debate’), and reports from the Select Committees in both Houses of Parliament. Panel members have a wide range of experience and expertise in broadcasting and related industries, including children’s media.