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1178947

	registered interest
	date	21/02/2020
	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	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport: Written Questions
	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 he plans to Answer Named Day Question 11504 on Loneliness tabled by the Hon. Member for Houghton and Sunderland South on 3 February 2020.
	tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
	tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
	uin	18623
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2020 answer text <p>I answered the PQ in question on 20 February 2020.</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 27/02/2020 17:14:23 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
	tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

1180109

	registered interest
	date	24/02/2020
	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	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport: Civil Society
	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 he has made of the total amount of funding from the public purse given by his Department to (a) civil society and (b) campaigning bodies in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Harlow
	tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
	uin	19827
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2020 answer text <p>Civil Society forms an essential part of our communities up and down the country. It includes large, national charities, social enterprises, volunteers and small grassroots organisations but what joins them all is the idea of creating social value to help build a better society.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Government funding to civil society is ring-fenced for particular projects or programmes. Grant agreement terms and conditions prohibit grant funding being used for paid for lobbying and political campaigning.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The figures quoted below represent the total amount of expenditure incurred by the Office for Civil Society since it joined DCMS as part of a Machinery of Government transfer. Any information prior to 2015-16 would be held by the Cabinet Office.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>2018-19</strong></td><td>£178,929,480</td></tr><tr><td><strong>2017-18</strong></td><td>£228,705,555</td></tr><tr><td><strong>2016-17</strong></td><td>£253,708,419</td></tr><tr><td><strong>2015-16</strong></td><td>£169,082,246</td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 09/03/2020 11:32:45 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
	tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

1180582

	registered interest
	date	25/02/2020
	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	Malvern Hills Trust
	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 Answer of 7 October 2019 to Question 290901, on Malvern Hills Trust, what plans he has to amend the governance provisions of the Malvern Hills Trust to make that trust subject to the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
	tabling member constituency	West Worcestershire
	tabling member printed	Harriett Baldwin
	uin	20479
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/03/2020 answer text <p>The Department has no plans to make the Malvern Hills Trust subject to the Freedom of Information Act 2000. The Malvern Hills Trust recently consulted publicly on proposals to amend its governance provisions and will set out its next steps in due course. The Department is in discussion with the Charity Commission and the charity on the most appropriate means of taking the changes forward and ensuring Parliamentary scrutiny.</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 17/03/2020 09:57:22 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
	tabling member	4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin

1181701

	registered interest
	date	02/03/2020
	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	Youth Clubs: 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 recent assessment he has made of the effect of youth club closures on the rate of crime committed by young people.
	tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
	tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
	uin	23403
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2020 answer text <p>The Government recognises that there are a range of complex causes of youth crime and that these are often tied to local factors. However, it is the local authorities’ role to allocate funding and deliver youth services in line with local need. We are not aware of any conclusive evidence of a direct link between the closure of youth clubs and crimes committed by young people.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>This government is committed to young people and levelling up opportunities. We are investing £500 million over five years through the new Youth Investment Fund to build new youth centres, refurbish existing youth facilities, provide mobile facilities for harder to reach areas, and to invest in the youth work profession and frontline services.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Government is also funding up to £7 million this financial year through the Youth Accelerator Fund, expanding existing successful projects that are delivering positive activities for young people, and to address urgent needs in the youth sector. UK Youth is distributing over £1 million of this funding to grassroots youth organisations across the country.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 09/03/2020 11:38:11 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
	tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

1182251

	registered interest
	date	03/03/2020
	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	Loneliness
	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 the ministerial group on loneliness plans to publish a report in 2020.
	tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
	tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
	uin	24258
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2020 answer text <p>In the Tackling Loneliness Strategy, published October 2018, government committed to publishing annual progress reports to provide an update on the implementation of policies set out in the strategy. The first annual report was published in January 2020. This set out progress to date, including action by frontline workers across the public sector to recognise and act on loneliness, the launch of the Let’s Talk Loneliness campaign, the commitment to include measures in the Public Health Outcomes Framework so we can understand local rates of loneliness, and the announcement of an additional £2m of grant-funding to help frontline grassroots organisations that bring people together.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The ministerial group on loneliness will consider whether any further reports should be published this year, as part of its ongoing discussions around the government’s work on tackling loneliness.</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 09/03/2020 11:40:24 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
	tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1183123

	registered interest
	date	05/03/2020
	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	Voluntary Work: Young People
	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 assessment he has made of the cost effectiveness of the (a) National Citizen Service and (b) NCS Trust.
	tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
	tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
	uin	25610
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/03/2020 answer text <p>The most recent publicly available figure from the NCS 2016 evaluation report show that for every £1 of taxpayer money spent on the 2016 summer programme, £1.79 is provided back to society by the NCS programme in terms of the economic benefit. For the 2016 Autumn programme for every £1 spend, £2.21 is provided back in terms of the economic benefits. The economic benefits relate to the identified impact the NCS programme has in respect to volunteering and leadership.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The NCS Trust is the Royal Chartered Arms-Length Body overseeing and implementing the programme, in line with the NCS Act 2017. The NCS Trust’s budget is reviewed and approved by DCMS on an annual basis in line with Managing Public Money standards. The National Audit Office audits the NCS Trust’s accounts each year.</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 17/03/2020 09:58:02 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
	tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

1183613

	registered interest
	date	09/03/2020
	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	Charities: Coronavirus
	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 the Government is taking to help ensure the financial resilience of service delivery charities in the (a) delay and (b) mitigate phases of the response to covid-19.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
	tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
	uin	26890
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2020 answer text <p>Ministers and officials are in constant dialogue with partners in these sectors to build and maintain a complete and up to date understanding of the challenges. We are working urgently with colleagues across government to shape support available to mitigate risks in the coming weeks and months.<strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 19/03/2020 15:38:55 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
	tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

1185438

	registered interest
	date	16/03/2020
	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	Civil Society: Coronavirus
	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 discussions he has had with civil society organisations on the effect of covid-19 on their (a) financial stability and (b) ability to deliver effectively for communities as part of the Government's civil contingency planning.
	tabling member constituency	Ilford North
	tabling member printed	Wes Streeting
	uin	30109
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2020 answer text <p>Organisations across civil society are already working tirelessly to support their communities in response to covid-19. I have had several conversations with civil society organisations about responding to covid-19 and its potential impact on charities and social enterprises. Last week the Minister for Civil Society, Baroness Barran, held a roundtable with over 45 charities to listen to their concerns. We are working with colleagues across government to shape support available to mitigate risks in the coming weeks and months and deliver effectively for communities.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 19/03/2020 15:36:32 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
	tabling member	4504 label Biography information for Wes Streeting

1243343

	registered interest
	date	14/10/2020
	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	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport: 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 his Department allocated funding to the Fatima's Next Job Could be in Cyber advert.
	tabling member constituency	Feltham and Heston
	tabling member printed	Seema Malhotra
	uin	103538
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2020 answer text <p>The CyberFirst recruitment campaign is delivered by skills provider QA with funding allocated through the National Cyber Security Programme.</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 19/10/2020 16:43:06 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
	tabling member	4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra

1246326

	registered interest
	date	22/10/2020
	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	Events Industry and Sports: Government Assistance
	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 he will extend the insurance support for the film industry to (a) sports clubs, (b) theatres, (c) exhibitions and (d) live events.
	tabling member constituency	Solihull
	tabling member printed	Julian Knight
	uin	107667
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2020 answer text <p>DCMS regularly engages with businesses and sector representative bodies in order to properly understand the issues being faced as well as to develop means of offering support, including on the issue of insurance provision. The government is also in continual dialogue with the insurance sector on its response to this unprecedented situation.</p><p>We encourage businesses experiencing financial difficulty to research the initiatives in the Government’s support package such as the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme. Our schemes are continuously under review to make sure our schemes are accessible, fair and targeted to help those who need it the most.</p><p>Some of the support the government has offered includes the unprecedented £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund - the largest ever one-off investment in culture - to help countless organisations weather the COVID storm</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 03/11/2020 11:43:54 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
	tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight