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	registered interest
	date	07/12/2017
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Accountancy
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask The Secretary of State for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to ensure the accurate accounting of (a) AI Programs, (b) Blockchain and (c) other Fin Tech, a report of a company's business model.
	tabling member constituency	Brigg and Goole
	tabling member printed	Andrew Percy
	uin	117887
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2017 answer text <p>For the purposes of company reporting these items (i.e. AI Programs, Blockchain and other Fin Tech) would be treated as intangible assets.</p><p>The Companies Act 2006 requirements for Large and Medium-sized Companies and Groups, includes a balance sheet heading “Intangible Assets” to be included on the face of the balance sheet as well as a specific sub-heading for, “concessions, patents, licences, trademarks, and similar rights and assets”. We would expect AI programs, Blockchain and Fin Tech to be accounted for under this heading.</p><p>For additional clarity UK generally accepted accounting practices (GAAP) also require detailed disclosures on intangible assets, where they are material to the company’s financial position, to be included in the notes attached to the financial statements.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 12/12/2017 16:03:55 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	3939 label Biography information for Andrew Percy

797535

	registered interest
	date	29/11/2017
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Post Offices: Bank Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department is taking steps to raise awareness of the banking services that Post Office branches provide.
	tabling member constituency	Brigg and Goole
	tabling member printed	Andrew Percy
	uin	116498
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2017 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Government is committed to providing universal banking access for all consumers and small businesses in the UK - 99% of UK personal bank customers and 95% of small business accounts can withdraw cash and deposit cash and cheques over the counter in any of the UK’s network of 11,600 post offices.</p><p> </p><p>I understand that the Post Office is working to increase public awareness of its banking services. There is a series of ongoing in-branch campaigns, a recent one seeing 7,000 post office branches advertising banking services nationwide. The Post Office is also working in conjunction with UK banks to launch a series of campaigning initiatives through the next year.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 05/12/2017 11:18:52 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	3939 label Biography information for Andrew Percy

1015573

	registered interest
	date	27/11/2018
	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
	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 implications for the independence of the media of the recommendations of the Isle of Man Tynwald Select Committee on Public Service Media's November 2018 report .
	tabling member constituency	Brigg and Goole
	tabling member printed	Andrew Percy
	uin	196198
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2018 answer text <p>The Isle of Man Tynwald Select Committee on Public Service Media provided recommendations to the High Court of Tynwald. Responding to the recommendations is a matter for the Isle of Man Government. The UK government will engage with the Isle of Man Government on these issues where appropriate.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James grouped question UIN 196196 196197 question first answered 04/12/2018 17:35:01 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	3939 label Biography information for Andrew Percy

1015571

	registered interest
	date	27/11/2018
	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
	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 for the Government's policies of the recommendations made by the Isle of Man Tynwald Select Committee on Public Service Media in their November 2018 report; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Brigg and Goole
	tabling member printed	Andrew Percy
	uin	196196
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2018 answer text <p>The Isle of Man Tynwald Select Committee on Public Service Media provided recommendations to the High Court of Tynwald. Responding to the recommendations is a matter for the Isle of Man Government. The UK government will engage with the Isle of Man Government on these issues where appropriate.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James grouped question UIN 196197 196198 question first answered 04/12/2018 17:35:01 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	3939 label Biography information for Andrew Percy

1078619

	registered interest
	date	27/02/2019
	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	Broadband: Rural Areas
	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 funding his Department has allocated to subsidise full-fibre networks in rural areas.
	tabling member constituency	Brigg and Goole
	tabling member printed	Andrew Percy
	uin	226650
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2019 answer text <p>Work has already started to build full fibre networks in rural areas, with up to £700 million allocated by Government for rollout up until the end of 2021.</p><p> </p><p>The Future Telecoms Infrastructure Review identified that around 10% of premises would not get full fibre commercially by 2033, largely in rural and remote areas. To reach the Government’s targets for nationwide full fibre coverage by 2033, these areas will require additional funding of around £3 billion to support investment, ensuring delivery in the final 10% occurs alongside commercial rollout.</p><p> </p><p>Funding already committed to these areas includes around £200 million from the BDUK Superfast programme, which is building on the 96% superfast coverage in the UK, and now rolling out full fibre connections.</p><p> </p><p>The Local Full Fibre Networks programme (LFFN) is designed to stimulate commercial investment in full fibre networks in both rural and urban locations across the whole of the UK. LFFN will have invested almost £300 million across the UK by the end of the programme in 2021.</p><p> </p><p>At Budget 2018, a further £200 million was allocated from the National Productivity Investment Fund, for the 2 year Rural Gigabit Connectivity programme starting in April 2019.</p><p> </p><p>Longer-term options for funding rural connectivity under the Outside-In approach will be determined as part of the forthcoming Spending Review.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James grouped question UIN 226649 question first answered 07/03/2019 10:33:55 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	3939 label Biography information for Andrew Percy

1078617

	registered interest
	date	27/02/2019
	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	Broadband: Rural Areas
	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 progress his Department has made on its plans for an outside-in strategy to build full-fibre networks in rural areas.
	tabling member constituency	Brigg and Goole
	tabling member printed	Andrew Percy
	uin	226649
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2019 answer text <p>Work has already started to build full fibre networks in rural areas, with up to £700 million allocated by Government for rollout up until the end of 2021.</p><p> </p><p>The Future Telecoms Infrastructure Review identified that around 10% of premises would not get full fibre commercially by 2033, largely in rural and remote areas. To reach the Government’s targets for nationwide full fibre coverage by 2033, these areas will require additional funding of around £3 billion to support investment, ensuring delivery in the final 10% occurs alongside commercial rollout.</p><p> </p><p>Funding already committed to these areas includes around £200 million from the BDUK Superfast programme, which is building on the 96% superfast coverage in the UK, and now rolling out full fibre connections.</p><p> </p><p>The Local Full Fibre Networks programme (LFFN) is designed to stimulate commercial investment in full fibre networks in both rural and urban locations across the whole of the UK. LFFN will have invested almost £300 million across the UK by the end of the programme in 2021.</p><p> </p><p>At Budget 2018, a further £200 million was allocated from the National Productivity Investment Fund, for the 2 year Rural Gigabit Connectivity programme starting in April 2019.</p><p> </p><p>Longer-term options for funding rural connectivity under the Outside-In approach will be determined as part of the forthcoming Spending Review.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James grouped question UIN 226650 question first answered 07/03/2019 10:33:55 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	3939 label Biography information for Andrew Percy

1137219

	registered interest
	date	05/07/2019
	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	Mobile Phones: Yorkshire and the Humber
	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 discussions he has had with mobile phone network operators on improving coverage across Yorkshire and the Humber.
	tabling member constituency	Brigg and Goole
	tabling member printed	Andrew Percy
	uin	273781
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2019 answer text <p>Ministers have meet Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) regularly to discuss a range of issues, including network coverage.</p><p>The Government wants the UK to have high-quality mobile coverage where people live, work and travel. We are committed to extending geographic mobile coverage to 95% of the UK, as well as providing an uninterrupted mobile signal on all major roads, which should lead to coverage improvements across Yorkshire and the Humber.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 11/07/2019 13:17:05 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	3939 label Biography information for Andrew Percy

1060038

	registered interest
	date	12/02/2019
	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	Nuisance Calls
	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 he is tacking to tackle the level of nuisance calls from foreign call centres.
	tabling member constituency	Brigg and Goole
	tabling member printed	Andrew Percy
	uin	220177
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2019 answer text <p>We have been clear that there is no place for nuisance calls in our society and we continue to work on practical solutions to this problem.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>In December 2018, we introduced new rules that enable company directors to be held personally liable for the nuisance calls their company makes. These rules apply to international marketing calls made on behalf of UK companies.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>We also secured over £600k in the Autumn Budget which we have used to provide vulnerable people with call blocking devices. This measure has protected the most vulnerable in society from nuisance calls scams including those originating from overseas call centres.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 19/02/2019 16:35:36 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	3939 label Biography information for Andrew Percy

838314

	registered interest
	date	07/02/2018
	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	Artificial Intelligence: Research
	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 his Department is taking to support research developments on artificial intelligence in the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Brigg and Goole
	tabling member printed	Andrew Percy
	uin	127209
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2018 answer text <p>AI and data-driven research is a priority for government, and is critical to responding to the AI and Data Grand Challenge outlined in the Industrial Strategy. The Autumn Budget announced£75m specifically for AI and Data – including 450 additional AI research PhD places by 2021, and a Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation looking at issues around data, including use for AI – a world-first. An overall increase in £4.7bn R&amp;D funding by 2021, including money made available through the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund, will also stimulate AI-based solutions – for example through the Robotics and AI Extreme Environments programme. Government continues to fund primary research in computer science and data analytics through the research councils, and from 1 April, UK Research and Innovation. The joint DCMS/BEIS Office for AI will work with a new AI Council on skills, technology adoption and AI workforce diversity.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 23/02/2018 14:30:18 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	3939 label Biography information for Andrew Percy

1078613

	registered interest
	date	27/02/2019
	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	Broadband: Rural Areas
	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 announce the next steps for the Rural Gigabit Connnectivity programme.
	tabling member constituency	Brigg and Goole
	tabling member printed	Andrew Percy
	uin	226648
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2019 answer text <p>The £200 million Rural Gigabit Connectivity programme, announced in Budget 2018, will trial a model for full fibre to public buildings - starting with primary schools - which will act as hubs in rural areas, alongside vouchers for funding gigabit-capable connectivity to homes and businesses across the UK.</p><p> </p><p>An announcement on the launch of the programme will take place in Spring 2019.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 07/03/2019 10:25:19 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	3939 label Biography information for Andrew Percy