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535113

registered interest
date	11/07/2016
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	Sports Competitors: Transgender People
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 International Olympic Committee's (IOC) decision to allow transgender athletes to compete at the Olympic Games; what consultation they have had with the British Olympic Association about that issue; what rules apply in the UK regarding transgender athletes competing in sport; and whether they consider the IOC's ruling to be a disadvantage to non-transgender female athletes.
tabling member printed	Lord Maginnis of Drumglass
uin	HL1109
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2016 answer text <p>We have had no such discussions with the British Olympic Association. Sports competition regulations are a matter for the governing body.</p><p> </p><p>Home Nation Sports Councils published the attached guidance in 2013 for national governing bodies of sport entitled &quot;Transsexual people and competitive sport”.</p> answering member printed Lord Ashton of Hyde question first answered 22/07/2016 13:16:38 answering member 4247 label Biography information for Lord Ashton of Hyde attachment 1 file name TranssexualPeopleandCompetitiveSportGuidanceforNationalGoverningBodies.pdf title Transsexual People and Competitive Sport
tabling member	648 label Biography information for Lord Maginnis of Drumglass

535125

registered interest
date	11/07/2016
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	Football: Sportsgrounds
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they have yet received a report from the Premier League on progress towards the implementation of accessible stadia guidelines by August 2017.
tabling member printed	Lord Faulkner of Worcester
uin	HL1121
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2016 answer text <p>Ministers expect to receive the report from the Premier League on progress by their clubs to implement the Accessible Stadia guidelines shortly. Ministers meet the football authorities regularly to discuss a variety of matters, including accessibility.</p> answering member printed Lord Ashton of Hyde question first answered 22/07/2016 13:17:02 answering member 4247 label Biography information for Lord Ashton of Hyde
tabling member	2472 label Biography information for Lord Faulkner of Worcester

535126

registered interest
date	11/07/2016
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	Football: Sportsgrounds
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what discussions they have had with the Premier League and the Football League about meeting disabled access guidelines at football grounds.
tabling member printed	Lord Faulkner of Worcester
uin	HL1122
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2016 answer text <p>Both the Minister for Disabled People and the Minister for Sport have had discussions and corresponded with both the Premier League and the Football League about improving accessibility at football stadia. The Minister for Sport is meeting the Premier League soon to discuss a range of topics including accessibility and progress with their work plan.</p> answering member printed Lord Ashton of Hyde question first answered 22/07/2016 13:17:29 answering member 4247 label Biography information for Lord Ashton of Hyde
tabling member	2472 label Biography information for Lord Faulkner of Worcester

535127

registered interest
date	11/07/2016
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	Sportsgrounds
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what discussions they have had with the governing bodies of sports other than football about meeting disabled access guidelines at sports stadia.
tabling member printed	Lord Faulkner of Worcester
uin	HL1123
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2016 answer text <p>Ministerial meetings have taken place with the Rugby Football Union and at official level with the Rugby Union Premier League on accessibility. Ministers are aware that there is both good and bad practice on stadium accessibility across a range of other sports. Ministers expect all sports, and all clubs, whose grounds do not make the reasonable adjustments to accommodate disabled spectators as set out in the Equality Act 2010 to take action to fulfil this legal obligation.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Ashton of Hyde question first answered 22/07/2016 13:17:52 answering member 4247 label Biography information for Lord Ashton of Hyde
tabling member	2472 label Biography information for Lord Faulkner of Worcester

535128

registered interest
date	11/07/2016
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	Sportsgrounds
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what plans they have for revising the terms of reference for the Sports Grounds Safety Authority to ensure that they encompass disabled access requirements at licensed sports stadia.
tabling member printed	Lord Faulkner of Worcester
uin	HL1124
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2016 answer text <p>As set out in our Sports Strategy, we will enable the Sports Grounds Safety Authority to take on a more formal role in helping sports grounds reach the required standards for accessibility. We are currently in discussions with the SGSA on what role they will play in delivering accessible sports grounds.</p> answering member printed Lord Ashton of Hyde question first answered 22/07/2016 13:18:05 answering member 4247 label Biography information for Lord Ashton of Hyde
tabling member	2472 label Biography information for Lord Faulkner of Worcester

535177

registered interest
date	11/07/2016
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	Mobile Phones: Liverpool City Region
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 has taken to improve mobile telephone coverage in the Liverpool City Region.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	42417
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2016 answer text <p>Improving mobile coverage remains a priority for the Government, and our landmark agreement in December 2014 with the four mobile network operators (MNOs) for each to provide voice and SMS text coverage to at least 90% of the UK landmass by 2017 will significantly improve coverage in the UK, including the Liverpool City Region. The additional licence obligation on Telefonica, which the other MNOs have publicly stated they will match, will deliver significant improvements in 4G coverage - covering 98% of UK premises by the end of 2017.</p><p> </p><p>In support of this work, the Government is also reforming mobile planning laws (in England only) and the Electronic Communications Code to make it cheaper and quicker for industry to invest and deliver coverage improvements.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 14/07/2016 09:22:12 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

535189

registered interest
date	11/07/2016
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	Art Works: Redcar and Cleveland
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 works of art from public collections were loaned to institutions in Redcar and Cleveland in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Redcar
tabling member printed	Anna Turley
uin	42348
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2016 answer text <p>The Department does not hold information about loans made from public collections. The national museums and galleries have responsibility for their specific loan arrangements and information about their loans is not held centrally.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>All Government funded museums and galleries are encouraged to loan works from their collections to institutions across the UK.Sponsored National Museums actively support and partner regional museums, which includes touring and large scale loans. In 2014/15 the national museums and galleries loaned items to 1,629 venues, including regional museums and historic houses.</p><p> </p><p>A new tax relief for museums and galleries will be introduced from 1 April 2017 to encourage them to develop creative new exhibitions and display their collections across the country. The relief will be available on qualifying costs for temporary and touring exhibitions.</p><p> </p><p>An independent report by Lord Heseltine, published in June, makes recommendations to further develop the Tees Valley area. The report called Tees Valley: Opportunity Unlimited has strong arts and cultural content and says the area hosts public art of national significance. The report also highlights the strengths of museums and galleries in the region, which include the Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (MiMA), the MOD funded Museum of the Royal Navy’s HMS Trincomalee in Hartlepool, the &quot;Head of Steam&quot; Railway Museum in Darlington and the Science Museum Group’s Locomotion branch at Shildon near Darlington.</p><p> </p><p>MiMa is a Tate Plus partner and has strong links with Tate Modern. It receives funding from Arts Council England as a Visual Arts Gallery. The Government is also funding £500k towards the development of a new Captain Cook exhibition resource at the Captain Cook Birthplace Museum in Middlesbrough.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 19/07/2016 08:05:59 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4449 label Biography information for Anna Turley

535192

registered interest
date	11/07/2016
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	Health: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if Sport England will take steps to ensure that children's fitness and activity levels do not decline from their term-time levels in the summer holidays.
tabling member constituency	Southend West
tabling member printed	Sir David Amess
uin	42423
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2016 answer text <p>We want to ensure that all children, regardless of background, ability or where they live, are able to engage in sport and physical activity in a way that interests and benefits them. Through the Government's sports strategy Sporting Future, published in December 2015, Sport England will now invest in sporting provision for children aged five and over - previously the starting age was 14 years old.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, Sport England's new strategy, Towards an Active Nation, published in May 2016, sets out their plans to make a major new investment of £40 million into projects which offer new opportunities for families with children to get active and play sport together. Sport England will continue to work with organisations across the sport sector as it implements its strategy.</p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 18/07/2016 14:28:11 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
tabling member	44 label Biography information for Sir David Amess

535193

registered interest
date	11/07/2016
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: Cabinet Office EU Unit
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 full-time equivalent staff of his Department (a) have moved and (b) are planned to move into the EU Unit.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	42454
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2016 answer text A new Europe unit is being set up in Whitehall, bringing together officials and policy expertise from across government. This unit will be led by and staffed by the best and brightest from across the civil service, including DCMS.<p> </p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 14/07/2016 09:20:30 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

533853

registered interest
date	08/07/2016
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	Archaeology and Cultural Heritage
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what representations he has received from the heritage and archaeological communities on the potential effect of the UK leaving the EU on those communities; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
tabling member printed	Richard Burden
uin	42273
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2016 answer text <p>The Prime Minister has been clear that the negotiation for Britain's future relationship with Europe will need to begin under a new Prime Minister, and we have now got to look at all the detailed arrangements. In the meantime, Departments continue working to deliver the Government agenda.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 13/07/2016 07:41:02 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	301 label Biography information for Richard Burden