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1148832

registered interest
date	14/10/2019
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	Political Parties: Advertising
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether she plans to create a regulator for online political advertising.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
uin	51
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2019 answer text <p>The Government has committed to implementing an imprints regime for digital election material. Our aim is to increase transparency and allow voters to see more information about who has produced election material. We will publish the technical proposals for this regime later this year.</p><p> </p><p>The Cabinet Office is also preparing to launch a consultation on electoral integrity. The scope of this may include increased transparency on digital political advertising; closing loopholes on foreign spending in elections; preventing shell companies from sidestepping current rules on political finance; and action to tackle foreign lobbying. More detail will be brought forward in due course.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, in February this year the Government announced its intention to lead a review of how online advertising is regulated in the UK. This review will identify and address the systematic social and economic challenges that arise from the sector.</p> answering member constituency Selby and Ainsty answering member printed Nigel Adams question first answered 17/10/2019 16:02:12 answering member 4057 label Biography information for Nigel Adams
tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly

1148249

registered interest
date	03/10/2019
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	Media: 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, if she will include regulation of news publishers in her legislative proposals on online harms.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
uin	294099
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/10/2019 answer text <p>The Online Harms White Paper sets out our plans for world-leading legislation to make the UK the safest place in the world to be online, and to better protect the rights and wellbeing of users online. It will make companies more responsible for their users' safety online, especially children and other vulnerable groups.</p><p> </p><p>A vibrant, independent, pluralistic and free press is essential to our democracy. As set out in the former Secretary of State's letter to the Society of Editors, the White Paper's proposals do not impact journalistic and editorial content and will not interfere with the current approach to press regulation.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Boston and Skegness answering member printed Matt Warman question first answered 08/10/2019 11:02:23 answering member 4361 label Biography information for Matt Warman
tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly

1147971

registered interest
date	02/10/2019
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	Political Parties: Advertising
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether she plans to create a regulator for online political advertising.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
uin	293488
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/10/2019 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.</p> answering member constituency Selby and Ainsty answering member printed Nigel Adams question first answered 08/10/2019 16:17:13 answering member 4057 label Biography information for Nigel Adams
tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly

1142825

registered interest
date	02/09/2019
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	Social Media: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether she plans to establish a voluntary citizen editors training scheme to help current social media moderators more effectively manage potentially damaging content.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
uin	284268
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2019 answer text <p>As outlined in the Online Harms White Paper, we intend to establish in law a new duty of care on companies towards their users, overseen by an independent regulator. The duty of care will ensure companies have appropriate systems and processes in place to deal with harmful content on their services, and keep their users safe. The Government is currently analysing the responses to the White Paper consultation, and will publish its response by the end of the year.</p> answering member constituency Boston and Skegness answering member printed Matt Warman question first answered 05/09/2019 14:55:21 answering member 4361 label Biography information for Matt Warman
tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly

1143271

registered interest
date	02/09/2019
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	Politics: Advertising
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether he plans to create a regulator for online political advertising.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
uin	284584
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.</p> answering member constituency Selby and Ainsty answering member printed Nigel Adams question first answered 09/09/2019 15:36:00 answering member 4057 label Biography information for Nigel Adams
tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly

1140892

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	Greyhound Racing: Taxation
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 he has made of the potential merits of introducing a statutory levy in greyhound racing for greyhound welfare.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
uin	280187
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/07/2019 answer text <p>On 10th January 2019 the Government announced a new funding commitment from bookmakers, worth an estimated £3 million this year, to ensure the welfare of greyhounds is protected and improved. This commitment is set to increase the total amount of the voluntary levy bookmakers pay to the British Greyhound Racing Fund (BGRF) to an estimated £10m this year. We expect thousands of racing greyhounds will be better cared for as a result of this new deal.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 31/07/2019 09:18:54 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly