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418590

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date	14/09/2015
answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	BBC World Service: North Korea
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the BBC’s decision to inaugurate broadcasts to the Korean peninsula.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL2182
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/09/2015 answer text <p>No such assessment has been made. The BBC's proposals published in 'British, Bold, Creative - The BBC’s programmes and services in the next Charter', including its ideas for the future of the World Service, will be an important part of the Charter Review process the Government is running.</p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 21/09/2015 15:54:40 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

418663

registered interest
date	14/09/2015
answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Department for Culture, Media and Sport: Freedom of Information
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many hours his Department spent on processing freedom of information requests in each of the last 24 months.
tabling member constituency	Aberdeen North
tabling member printed	Kirsty Blackman
uin	10219
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/09/2015 answer text <p>The Department does not hold information detailing the total hours spent on processing freedom of information requests. However, there are currently three full time employees at the Department whose primary function is to ‘oversee, respond to or co­ordinate obligations’ under the Freedom of Information Act.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 21/09/2015 14:02:23 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	4357 label Biography information for Kirsty Blackman

418664

registered interest
date	14/09/2015
answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Broadband: East of England
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps he is taking to increase broadband coverage and speed in Suffolk and the East of England.
tabling member constituency	Bury St Edmunds
tabling member printed	Jo Churchill
uin	10186
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2015 answer text <p>The Government has committed £26.68 million to the Suffolk broadband project. The current contracted coverage is to provide superfast broadband access to 117,493 homes and businesses in the county, extending coverage to nearly 91% of premises. Procurement is still under way for part of the funding and coverage will be extended further once contracts are agreed. As 30 June 2015, the Suffolk project had covered 84,447 superfast premises.</p><p><br>Over £81 million of government funding has been committed to improving superfast broadband coverage in the East of England (including Buckinghamshire and Milton Keynes). This will support delivery of superfast broadband to 642,160 homes and businesses in the region that would otherwise not have gained coverage.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 17/09/2015 14:40:07 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill

418665

registered interest
date	14/09/2015
answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Tourism
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what proportion of the UK's gross domestic product is accounted for by tourism.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	10143
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/09/2015 answer text <p>The Office for National Statistics estimates that tourism directly contributed £59.6 billion to the UK economy in 2014, accounting for nearly 4% of the UK's Gross Domestic Product.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 21/09/2015 13:59:51 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

418666

registered interest
date	14/09/2015
answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Digital Broadcasting: Radio
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of DAB radio reception in Scotland; and what steps his Department has taken to improve poor reception in areas receiving low-quality coverage.
tabling member constituency	Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey
tabling member printed	Drew Hendry
uin	10122
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/10/2015 answer text <p>The Government is working with the radio industry to improve digital radio coverage for listeners across the UK. DCMS, the BBC and commercial radio are jointly funding the long term expansion of the local DAB network with the building of 182 new digital transmitters across Scotland, Wales, England and Northern Ireland and technical/frequency changes at a further 49 existing local DAB sites by the end of September 2016. As a result of this new investment, according to the independent communications regulator Ofcom, it is expected that local DAB coverage in Scotland will increase from 65% to 86% of households.</p><p>Ofcom has published detailed maps outlining the improvements to local DAB coverage for the local digital radio multiplex areas in Scotland and these are available at:<a href="http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/broadcasting/radio/coverage/dab-coverage-plans/" target="_blank">http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/broadcasting/radio/coverage/dab-coverage-plans/</a></p><p>Separately the BBC is rolling out its national DAB network to a further 163 transmitter sites across the UK, scheduled for completion by the end of 2015. This programme will increase the coverage of its DAB network in Scotland from 91% to 95% of homes.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 12/10/2015 12:38:03 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	4467 label Biography information for Drew Hendry