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1421596

registered interest
date	10/02/2022
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	Gambling: Reviews
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, when she plans to publish the White Paper on the gambling review.
tabling member constituency	Swansea East
tabling member printed	Carolyn Harris
uin	905564
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2022 answer text <p>The Gambling Act Review is a priority for the department. We will publish a White Paper with our conclusions in the coming months.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 905566 question first answered 11/02/2022 10:29:21 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4480 label Biography information for Carolyn Harris

1421597

registered interest
date	10/02/2022
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	Disinformation
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 steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues to tackle disinformation.
tabling member constituency	North Ayrshire and Arran
tabling member printed	Patricia Gibson
uin	905565
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2022 answer text <p>The Government takes the issue of misinformation and disinformation very seriously.</p><p>The DCMS-led Counter Disinformation Unit is leading work to tackle this, bringing together monitoring and analysis capabilities across government and working with a range of partners, including social media platforms.</p><p>Our Online Safety Bill will force companies to tackle misinformation and disinformation. However, we expect companies to take steps now to improve safety, and not wait for the legislation to come into force before acting.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 11/02/2022 10:27:49 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4435 label Biography information for Patricia Gibson

1421598

registered interest
date	10/02/2022
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	Gambling Act 2005
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, when her Department plans to publish a White Paper on the reform of the Gambling Act 2005.
tabling member constituency	Inverclyde
tabling member printed	Ronnie Cowan
uin	905566
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2022 answer text <p>The Gambling Act Review is a priority for the department. We will publish a White Paper with our conclusions in the coming months.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 905564 question first answered 11/02/2022 10:29:21 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4465 label Biography information for Ronnie Cowan

1421601

registered interest
date	10/02/2022
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	Ofcom: Telecommunications
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	With reference to the Penrose review, published in February 2021, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of the recommendation in that review that Ofcom should promote competition and reduce regulatory burdens in the communications sector.
tabling member constituency	Weston-super-Mare
tabling member printed	John Penrose
uin	905571
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2022 answer text <p>Our Future Telecoms Infrastructure Review recognised that promoting competition and stable, long-term regulation were critical to our connectivity ambitions. We embedded these goals into Ofcom’s Statement of Strategic Priorities.</p><p>Moreover, work continues across government on the UK’s regulatory frameworks: the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has consulted on reforms to competition and consumer policy; and, the government has set out its vision for modernising the economic regulation of the utilities sectors, including telecommunications.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hornchurch and Upminster answering member printed Julia Lopez question first answered 10/02/2022 16:43:52 answering member 4647 label Biography information for Julia Lopez
tabling member	1584 label Biography information for John Penrose

1421777

registered interest
date	10/02/2022
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	Arts: North Yorkshire
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 recent estimate she has made of the value of the York and North Yorkshire creative industry; and what estimate she has made of the potential value of that sector in the future.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	122727
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2022 answer text <p>In 2019, our provisional estimates show the creative industries contributed £3.4 billion to the Yorkshire and the Humber region in gross value added (GVA), 3% of all industries output in the region. The sector also supported approximately 122,000 jobs in the region, 5% of all regional employment.</p><p>Looking to the future, we are developing a Creative Industries Sector Vision which will set out our ambition for the sector up to 2030. As part of this, the government recently announced £50 million of growth support for creative businesses across the country. Both the Sector Vision and £50 million support package will support the growth of creative businesses, and we are keen to encourage growth in regions across the country.</p> answering member constituency Hornchurch and Upminster answering member printed Julia Lopez question first answered 25/02/2022 14:23:56 answering member 4647 label Biography information for Julia Lopez
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1421778

registered interest
date	10/02/2022
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	Digital Technology: North Yorkshire
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 estimate she has made of the current value of the digital creative industry in York and North Yorkshire; and what estimate she has made of the potential value of that sector in the future.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	122728
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2022 answer text <p>In 2019, our provisional estimates show computer games businesses contributed £25 million to the Yorkshire and The Humber region in gross value added, while audio-visual businesses output totalled £339 million. These sub-sectors boosted the creative industries contribution, which was £3.4 billion (3%) of the region’s GVA in 2019.</p><p>Looking to the future, we are developing a Creative Industries Sector Vision which will set out our ambition for the sector up to 2030. As part of this, the government recently announced £50 million of growth support for creative businesses across the country. Both the Sector Vision and £50 million support package will support the growth of creative businesses, and we are keen to encourage growth in regions across the country.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hornchurch and Upminster answering member printed Julia Lopez question first answered 25/02/2022 11:33:53 answering member 4647 label Biography information for Julia Lopez
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1421824

registered interest
date	10/02/2022
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	Gamstop
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the announcement that GAMSTOP, an industry-funded organisation, will be operating a single customer view trial, if she will take steps to ensure that the upcoming Gambling White Paper makes provision for affordability to be assessed by an organisation independent of the industry, which is able to make proactive and informed interventions utilising relevant data.
tabling member constituency	Swansea East
tabling member printed	Carolyn Harris
uin	122747
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2022 answer text <p>The Gambling Commission received over 13,000 responses to its consultation and call for evidence on Remote Customer Interaction (including on issues to do with affordability) and has published an interim update on its website outlining next steps. We will continue to work closely with them on affordability in the run up to publishing our White Paper which will set out our vision for the sector.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 22/02/2022 14:55:24 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4480 label Biography information for Carolyn Harris

1422023

registered interest
date	10/02/2022
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	Swimming Pools: Closures
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 assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of the finding of the Swim England report, published September 2021, that 2,000 swimming pools could be lost by the end of the decade.
tabling member constituency	Poplar and Limehouse
tabling member printed	Apsana Begum
uin	122853
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/02/2022 answer text <p>We recognise the importance of ensuring public access to indoor and outdoor pools and that swimming is a great way for people of all ages to stay fit and healthy. The responsibility of providing this access lies at Local Authority level, and the government continues to encourage Local Authorities to invest in swimming facilities.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has provided a range of support for swimming pools during the pandemic. The £100 million National Leisure Recovery Fund supported the reopening of local authority swimming pools throughout the country, with 1,176 separate pools supported across 701 sites. In addition, Sport England have made 139 Covid support awards to the Swimming &amp; Diving community (totalling £1,178,198).</p><p> </p><p>Beyond Covid, Sport England have awarded £24,575,700 to swimming and diving projects since January 2017, which includes £16,119,002 of funding directly to Swim England.</p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 21/02/2022 10:38:25 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	4790 label Biography information for Apsana Begum

1422043

registered interest
date	10/02/2022
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	Press: 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 assessment she has made of the potential merits of amending the definition of news-related material in the Online Safety Bill to ensure that content produced by all IPSO regulated publications, including specialist magazine titles, is exempted from platforms’ new online safety duties.
tabling member constituency	Ochil and South Perthshire
tabling member printed	John Nicolson
uin	122708
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2022 answer text <p>Online Safety legislation has been designed to safeguard access to journalistic content. News publishers’ content will be exempted from platforms’ new online safety duties. The criteria against which an organisation qualifies as a publisher is set in the draft Online Safety Bill. If an organisation meets these criteria, then its content will be exempt. The criteria is clear that it captures news publishers' whose principal purpose is the publication of news-related material.</p><p>The Bill will also impose a duty on the biggest and riskiest companies, Category 1 companies, to safeguard all journalistic content shared on their platform. Through this duty, these platforms will need to have systems in place to ensure they take into account the importance of the free expression of journalistic content when operating their services. These protections will cover specialist publishers such as consumer and business magazines, where they are engaged in journalism.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 122709 question first answered 22/02/2022 14:44:45 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4415 label Biography information for John Nicolson

1422044

registered interest
date	10/02/2022
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	Press: 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, with reference to the recommendation of the Joint Committee scrutinising the Online Safety Bill that the exemption for news publisher content should be amended to cover consumer and business magazines, what steps her Department has taken to engage with industry bodies to create a definition of news-related material that encompasses IPSO-regulated specialist publishers.
tabling member constituency	Ochil and South Perthshire
tabling member printed	John Nicolson
uin	122709
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2022 answer text <p>Online Safety legislation has been designed to safeguard access to journalistic content. News publishers’ content will be exempted from platforms’ new online safety duties. The criteria against which an organisation qualifies as a publisher is set in the draft Online Safety Bill. If an organisation meets these criteria, then its content will be exempt. The criteria is clear that it captures news publishers' whose principal purpose is the publication of news-related material.</p><p>The Bill will also impose a duty on the biggest and riskiest companies, Category 1 companies, to safeguard all journalistic content shared on their platform. Through this duty, these platforms will need to have systems in place to ensure they take into account the importance of the free expression of journalistic content when operating their services. These protections will cover specialist publishers such as consumer and business magazines, where they are engaged in journalism.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 122708 question first answered 22/02/2022 14:44:45 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4415 label Biography information for John Nicolson