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John Whittingdale named Culture Secretary
By Andy Malt | Published on Monday 11 May 2015
MP for Maldon, John Whittingdale, has been given the role of Secretary Of State For Culture, Media And Sport in that there David Cameron’s new cabinet.
Whittingdale’s appointment will please some in the music industry. A long-term chair of Parliament’s Culture, Media And Sport Select Committee, he has been supportive of the creative industries in the past, and pushed for provisions to prevent illegal file-sharing to be included in the 2010 Digital Economy Act (which may have come to nothing, but he helped get them in the statute).
He replaces Sajid Javid, now Business Secretary, who proved a controversial figure in the culture job for his support of the secondary ticketing industry.
