{"value":{"id":908404,"memberId":4070,"member":null,"memberRole":"Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport","uin":"HCWS701","dateMade":"2018-05-21T00:00:00","answeringBodyId":10,"answeringBodyName":"Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport","title":"Media matters","text":"<p>On 7 May 2018, Comcast Corporation formally notified the European Commission of its intention to acquire the entire issued share capital of Sky plc.</p><p>Under section 58 of the Enterprise Act 2002 (“the Act”), the Secretary of State has the powers to intervene in certain media mergers on public interest grounds.</p><p>Having reviewed the relevant evidence available, I can confirm that I have today written to the parties to inform them that I am minded not to issue an EIN on the basis that the proposed merger does not raise concerns in relation to public interest considerations which would meet the threshold for intervention.</p><p>This is a quasi-judicial decision and I am required to make my decision independently, following a process that is scrupulously fair and impartial, and as quickly as possible.</p><p>I will now allow until 5pm on Thursday 24 May for interested parties to submit written representations, and I aim to come to a final decision on whether to intervene in the merger shortly.<strong><br></strong></p>","house":"Commons","noticeNumber":2,"hasAttachments":false,"hasLinkedStatements":false,"linkedStatements":null,"attachments":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Statements/908404","method":"GET"}]}