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1142444

registered interest
date	25/07/2019
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Pornography: Internet
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have commissioned research into online pornography use and its effect on attitudes and behaviours towards women and girls; and if so, when that research will be published.
tabling member printed	Baroness Howe of Idlicote
uin	HL17518
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/08/2019 answer text <p>The Government Equalities Office has commissioned research exploring legal pornography use and its influence on harmful behaviours and attitudes towards women and girls. The research is currently in the fieldwork phase and will be published in autumn 2019.</p><p><br>There are a number of existing pieces of research on the impact of pornography on young people and views towards age verification. S26(b) of the Digital Economy Act provides the regulator with the ability to carry out, commission or support research which it considers appropriate.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Barran question first answered 05/08/2019 11:54:16 answering member 4703 label Biography information for Baroness Barran
tabling member	3610 label Biography information for Baroness Howe of Idlicote

1142445

registered interest
date	25/07/2019
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Pornography: Internet
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the statement by Lord Ashton of Hyde on 20 July (HL Deb, cols 883–4), on what date the age verification requirements to protect children from accessing online pornography will come into effect.
tabling member printed	Baroness Howe of Idlicote
uin	HL17519
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/08/2019 answer text <p>Once the appropriate remedial actions have been undertaken to correct a procedural error announced on 20th June, we will announce further details on timings for commencement of age verification for online pornography, giving stakeholders sufficient time to prepare.</p> answering member printed Baroness Barran question first answered 05/08/2019 11:54:38 answering member 4703 label Biography information for Baroness Barran
tabling member	3610 label Biography information for Baroness Howe of Idlicote

1141526

registered interest
date	23/07/2019
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Tourist Attractions: Low Incomes
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what recent steps they have taken to review the affordability of major tourist attractions for children from lower income families.
tabling member printed	Baroness Doocey
uin	HL17394
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/08/2019 answer text <p>As part of the recently launched Tourism Sector Deal, the Government committed to making the UK Europe’s most accessible tourism destination by 2025. As we develop our policies in this area, we will consider our policy around this.</p><p> </p><p>The Association of Leading Visitor Attractions ranked seven DCMS-sponsored museums, free to enter for all, amongst the nation’s top ten most visited attractions in 2018. All fifteen DCMS-sponsored museums run extensive outreach programmes for schools and young people, with free activities timed to coincide with school summer holidays.</p> answering member printed Baroness Barran question first answered 05/08/2019 12:00:22 answering member 4703 label Biography information for Baroness Barran
tabling member	4197 label Biography information for Baroness Doocey

1141527

registered interest
date	23/07/2019
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Music Venues
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 importance of live music venues to music tourism in the UK.
tabling member printed	Baroness Doocey
uin	HL17395
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/08/2019 answer text <p>The Government recognises the significant contribution of live music to the UK, both culturally and economically. Live music venues are hugely important to the UK’s music tourism industry, which - according to UK Music - generated £4 billion in spend in 2017. That is why we have undertaken a number of measures to support and protect this sector, including reforming licensing and planning and introducing the Live Music Act, making it easier for promoters and venues to put on live music events.</p><p> </p><p>VisitBritain research shows that in 2017, over 2.6m international visitors attended a live music event while visiting Great Britain, representing 7% of the total visitors received.</p> answering member printed Baroness Barran question first answered 05/08/2019 12:00:54 answering member 4703 label Biography information for Baroness Barran
tabling member	4197 label Biography information for Baroness Doocey

1141156

registered interest
date	22/07/2019
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Tourism: Young People
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to increase the rate of youth and educational travel to become more competitive with global rates.
tabling member printed	Baroness Doocey
uin	HL17339
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/08/2019 answer text <p>Government and VisitBritain continue to assess the UK’s competitiveness against other countries, working to ensure that the UK remains the destination of choice for youth and student travellers.</p><p> </p><p>VisitBritain regularly engage with the British Educational Travel Association and English UK, who are members of the British Tourism Industry Group in order to stay abreast of the challenges and opportunities in this market. They use the ‘Join the world - #MyMicroGap’ marketing campaign to support youth and student travel within the UK, and have used the GREAT campaign to market to Chinese and Malaysian markets what the UK’s tourism offer is.</p><p> </p><p>Several Discover England Fund products have targeted the youth and student market internationally, including the England-wide The Collection and Liverpool and Warrington’s Buzzing for the Weekend.</p><p> </p><p>VisitBritain have also conducted research into segments of the market who visit the UK, including the youth and student market.</p> answering member printed Baroness Barran question first answered 05/08/2019 11:55:08 answering member 4703 label Biography information for Baroness Barran
tabling member	4197 label Biography information for Baroness Doocey

1141157

registered interest
date	22/07/2019
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Tourism: Young 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 role of youth travel in growing the UK tourism industry.
tabling member printed	Baroness Doocey
uin	HL17340
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/08/2019 answer text <p>According to VisitBritain research, the UK received 12.1m visits from people aged between 16-34, who spent £7.2bn while they were here in 2018. On average they spent approximately 8 nights in the UK during their stay.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>With 63% of inbound travellers to the UK being return visitors, the youth travel market can be important for supporting long-term tourism growth.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Barran question first answered 05/08/2019 11:55:25 answering member 4703 label Biography information for Baroness Barran
tabling member	4197 label Biography information for Baroness Doocey

1141158

registered interest
date	22/07/2019
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Tourism: Young People
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what return they expect to make on their investment in the #MyMicrogap domestic campaign led by VisitEngland and Airbnb.
tabling member printed	Baroness Doocey
uin	HL17341
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/08/2019 answer text <p>VisitEngland created the #MyMicroGap campaign as a match funded partnership with AirBnB of £500,000, with both parties contributing £250,000. The campaign was part of VisitBritain’s overall 2018-19 activity and as such will be included as part of the Annual Report for the year.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Barran question first answered 05/08/2019 11:59:09 answering member 4703 label Biography information for Baroness Barran
tabling member	4197 label Biography information for Baroness Doocey

1141160

registered interest
date	22/07/2019
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	VisitBritain and VisitEngland: Finance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what was the return amount from the grant-in-aid investments in (1) VisitBritian, and (2) VisitEngland, by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport in each of the last two years.
tabling member printed	Baroness Doocey
uin	HL17343
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/08/2019 answer text <p>British Tourist Authority analysis suggests they generated £1,055m in 2017-18, equating to a return on investment of 25:1. This is an increase on £867m in 2016-17, which equates to a return on investment of 20:1. They are unable to provide a return on investment estimate for VisitEngland or VisitBritain activity specifically.</p> answering member printed Baroness Barran question first answered 05/08/2019 11:59:47 answering member 4703 label Biography information for Baroness Barran
tabling member	4197 label Biography information for Baroness Doocey

1140521

registered interest
date	19/07/2019
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Electronic Commerce: Regulation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what his policy is on the regulation of third-party sellers on online marketplaces; and whether he plans to include those sellers in the forthcoming online harms legislation.
tabling member constituency	Bermondsey and Old Southwark
tabling member printed	Neil Coyle
uin	279408
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/08/2019 answer text <p>Consumer protections already apply to online traders operating directly or as a third party through a platform.</p><br /><p>The Online Harms White Paper sets out the Government's plan to establish a statutory duty of care to make companies take more responsibility for the safety of their users and tackle harm caused by content or activity on their services. We have consulted on our proposals for the new duty of care to apply to companies and other bodies that allow users to share or discover user-generated content or interact with each other online.</p><br /><p>Companies in scope of the regulatory framework will be held to account for tackling a broad range of harmful and illegal content or activity on their services. However, where there is already an effective regulatory framework, this will be excluded from scope to avoid duplication.</p><br /><p>The Online Harms White Paper consultation closed on 1 July. The Government will publish its response later this year.</p> answering member constituency Boston and Skegness answering member printed Matt Warman question first answered 05/08/2019 10:10:00 answering member 4361 label Biography information for Matt Warman
tabling member	4368 label Biography information for Neil Coyle