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49267

registered interest
date	30/04/2014
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if his Department will take steps to ensure that revenue created by shops in publicly-funded museums and galleries will be safeguarded following the repeal of section 52 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
tabling member constituency	Hove
tabling member printed	Mike Weatherley
uin	197351
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/05/2014 answer text <p><strong>The Government is keen to support the revenue-generating activities of publicly-funded museums and galleries wherever possible. For most artistic works, copyright owners already need to provide permission before publicly-funded museums and galleries are able to make copies. The change in law will mean that permission from copyright holders will need to be sought for all artistic works. </strong></p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 06/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	3984 label Biography information for Mike Weatherley

49268

registered interest
date	30/04/2014
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if his Department will take steps to ensure that publicly-funded museums do not breach new rules regarding the commercial exploitation of designs whose owners have had their rights revived following the repeal of section 52 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
tabling member constituency	Hove
tabling member printed	Mike Weatherley
uin	197349
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/05/2014 answer text <p>The Department for Culture, Media and Sport has an arm's length relationship with its sponsored bodies such as museums and galleries and does not intervene in day-to-day operational matters. It would be for these museums and galleries to act in compliance with the law, including intellectual property law.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 06/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	3984 label Biography information for Mike Weatherley

48983

registered interest
date	29/04/2014
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 10 April 2014, Official Report, columns 307-8W, on children: day care, what the breakdown is for the £500 grants available to set up new nurseries, childminders for disabled children and after schools clubs; how many of the 4,417 applicants continue to have a childcare business; and what plans he has for the funding of the scheme.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	197189
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/05/2014 answer text <p>The Childcare Business Grants scheme was launched in April 2013 to help those wishing to start a new childcare business with start-up costs. To date, 4,501 applications have been received, of which 425 have been for £500 grants. Information is not available on the number of applicants that continue to have a childcare business.</p><p> </p><p>A breakdown of the £500 grants approved is in the table.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Type of Grant application</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of applications</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Disabled childcare</p></td><td><p>146</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nursery</p></td><td><p>191</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Out of School Club</p></td><td><p>69</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>*Other</p></td><td><p>19</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total applications:</p></td><td><p>425</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: Liberata, management information</p><p>*Other (Childcare on domestic premises) – this category represents childminders working from domestic premises with three or more employees.</p><p> </p><p>We recently announced that the scheme will be available for new applicants up to the end of 2014 or until the £2m fund is exhausted.</p> answering member constituency Maidstone and The Weald answering member printed Mrs Helen Grant question first answered 06/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4018 label Biography information for Mrs Helen Grant
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

48998

registered interest
date	29/04/2014
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
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 responses were received to his Department's consultation on extending civil partnerships to opposite sex couples.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	197111
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/05/2014 answer text <p>There have been almost 11,500 responses to the consultation on the future of civil partnership in England and Wales. We are now considering them and will publish a summary in due course.</p> answering member constituency Maidstone and The Weald answering member printed Mrs Helen Grant grouped question UIN 197112 question first answered 06/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4018 label Biography information for Mrs Helen Grant
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

48999

registered interest
date	29/04/2014
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when he plans to publish the responses to the consultation on extending civil partnerships to opposite sex couples.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	197112
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/05/2014 answer text <p>There have been almost 11,500 responses to the consultation on the future of civil partnership in England and Wales. We are now considering them and will publish a summary in due course.</p> answering member constituency Maidstone and The Weald answering member printed Mrs Helen Grant grouped question UIN 197111 question first answered 06/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4018 label Biography information for Mrs Helen Grant
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

49000

registered interest
date	29/04/2014
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when he plans to bring forward legislative proposals to extend civil partnerships to opposite sex couples.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	197113
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/05/2014 answer text <p>The Government is currently considering the views expressed by consultation respondents on the future of civil partnership in England and Wales. The Government has not itself proposed any changes to civil partnership.</p> answering member constituency Maidstone and The Weald answering member printed Mrs Helen Grant question first answered 06/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4018 label Biography information for Mrs Helen Grant
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

49001

registered interest
date	29/04/2014
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
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 took to publicise the consultation on extending civil partnerships to opposite sex partners.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	197114
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/05/2014 answer text <p>On 23 January 2014, when the consultation document was published, I made a Ministerial Written Statement to bring it to the attention of honourable members. This statement was repeated in the House of Lords, by my colleague, Baroness Northover. The publication of the consultation was also announced on the Culture, Media and Sport website. DCMS officials directly contacted around 50 organisations with an interest in the issues and asked other Departments to do the same. Officials also offered meetings to the principal stakeholders, several of which took up the offer, and emailed more than 1300 organisations and individuals who had registered an interest in receiving updates on equal marriage or related issues and highlighted the consultation in the February edition of the Women's Engagement Newsletter, which is circulated to more than 2000 organisations and individuals.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Maidstone and The Weald answering member printed Mrs Helen Grant grouped question UIN 197115 question first answered 06/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4018 label Biography information for Mrs Helen Grant
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

49002

registered interest
date	29/04/2014
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, which hon. Members he consulted about the consultation on extension of civil partnerships to opposite sex couples.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	197115
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/05/2014 answer text <p>On 23 January 2014, when the consultation document was published, I made a Ministerial Written Statement to bring it to the attention of honourable members. This statement was repeated in the House of Lords, by my colleague, Baroness Northover. The publication of the consultation was also announced on the Culture, Media and Sport website. DCMS officials directly contacted around 50 organisations with an interest in the issues and asked other Departments to do the same. Officials also offered meetings to the principal stakeholders, several of which took up the offer, and emailed more than 1300 organisations and individuals who had registered an interest in receiving updates on equal marriage or related issues and highlighted the consultation in the February edition of the Women's Engagement Newsletter, which is circulated to more than 2000 organisations and individuals.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Maidstone and The Weald answering member printed Mrs Helen Grant grouped question UIN 197114 question first answered 06/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4018 label Biography information for Mrs Helen Grant
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

48776

registered interest
date	28/04/2014
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
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 radio spectrum is earmarked for (a) military purposes, (b) radar purposes and (c) public service broadcasting.
tabling member constituency	Windsor
tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
uin	196840
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/05/2014 answer text <p>Officials have consulted Ofcom who hold such information. Ofcom advise that they do not hold such information for bands below 87.5MHz, but have provided information for bands from 87.5MHz-30GHz.</p><p> </p><p>Ofcom has identified the proportion of spectrum accessed for public sector uses (not limited to the military), defined as all spectrum bands used by the public sector with Crown immunity (i.e. without need for authorisation by Ofcom). For the purpose of this analysis, this category includes all aeronautical uses of spectrum.</p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td><p>Crown use of spectrum as a % of total weighted spectrum</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>87.5 MHz</p></td><td><p>30 GHz</p></td><td><p>54%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>26% of the total weighted spectrum in the 87.5MHz to 30 GHz is allocated for radiolocation services/radar.</p><p> </p><p>Ofcom cannot provide specific information with regards to spectrum in use for public service broadcasting as the national allocation of frequencies does not distinguish between public service broadcasting and non-public service broadcasting. The table below provides information with regards to the proportion of total weighted spectrum in use for terrestrial broadcasting, split into TV and radio.</p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td><p>Terrestrial broadcasting spectrum as a % of total weighted spectrum</p></td><td><p>TV</p></td><td><p>Radio</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>87.5 MHz</p></td><td><p>30 GHz</p></td><td><p>8%</p></td><td><p>7%</p></td><td><p>1%</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 06/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

48777

registered interest
date	28/04/2014
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what comparative assessment he has made of high speed broadband coverage between (a) Northamptonshire and other counties and (b) the UK and other EU nations.
tabling member constituency	Kettering
tabling member printed	Mr Philip Hollobone
uin	196919
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/05/2014 answer text <p>According to the most recent data from Ofcom, in 2013 superfast broadband was available to 73.8 per cent of premises in Northamptonshire, compared with 73 per cent of premises across the UK as a whole. The average speed in Northamptonshire was 17.5Mbps, compared with the UK average of 14.7Mbps. Ofcom's European Broadband Scorecard published in March 2014 showed that the UK had the highest superfast broadband coverage of the five largest EU Member States.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 01/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	1537 label Biography information for Mr Philip Hollobone