Mark Hendrick – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Mark Hendrick on 2015-12-02.

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will take steps to require newspapers and journals to publish on their websites what the questions asked, sample sizes and composition of people in terms of age, sex and ethnicity were for opinion polls cited in their publications.

Mr Edward Vaizey

The Editors’ Code of Practice sets out the rules and standards to which the press can be held to account. The Code is administered by the Editors’ Code of Practice Committee and is evolving all the time to suit changing circumstances. Amendments to the Code can be suggested via the Committee’s website:http://www.editorscode.org.uk/.

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