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1020045

	registered interest
	date	04/12/2018
	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	TripAdvisor
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what consideration they have given the proposal made by Lord Beecham on 19 November 2013 (HL Deb, col GC376) to establish a panel to determine whether information identifying the name of a person posting damaging or malicious comments online should be released, particularly in relation to comments about hotel or catering services posted on TripAdvisor.
	tabling member printed	Lord Campbell-Savours
	uin	HL12020
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2018 answer text <p>The Government is making important progress in tackling online safety issues through the Digital Charter, which is guided by a number of principles and whose core purpose is to make the Internet work for everyone – for citizens, businesses and society as a whole.</p><p> </p><p>Online anonymity is an important part of a free and open internet, providing essential protection for those who need it and allowing for many kinds of self expression and communication that would not otherwise be possible. But being anonymous online does not give anyone the right to abuse others or break the law.</p><p> </p><p>In the Winter, the Government will publish an Online Harms White Paper setting out a range of legislative and non-legislative measures to ensure tech companies take more responsibility for the safety of their users.</p> answering member printed Viscount Younger of Leckie question first answered 18/12/2018 12:55:32 answering member 4169 label Biography information for Viscount Younger of Leckie
	tabling member	499 label Biography information for Lord Campbell-Savours

1019962

	registered interest
	date	04/12/2018
	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	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, pursuant to the answer of 4 December 2018 to Question 195559 on Voluntary Work: Young People, what proportion of the those eligible to take part do the figures provided in that Answer represent.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	198776
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2018 answer text <p>Please see attached the proportion of young people eligible to take part in NCS, in relation to the figures provided in the Answer to PQ 195559.</p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 12/12/2018 14:23:17 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies attachment 1 file name Participation by Region and LA 2015-17 Turn Ups by Region and LA.pdf title Participants by Region and LA 2015-17
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1019998

	registered interest
	date	04/12/2018
	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	Gambling: 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, what his Department's policy is on limiting gambling advertising during televised sports events.
	tabling member constituency	Upper Bann
	tabling member printed	David Simpson
	uin	198787
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2018 answer text <p>There are strict controls on the content of all gambling advertisements, including broadcast adverts. Gambling operators who advertise in the UK must comply with the advertising codes, which aim to ensure gambling advertising does not appeal particularly to children or young people or exploit vulnerable people.</p><p> </p><p>We considered advertising as part of our Review of Gaming Machines and Social Responsibility and our response set out a package of measures to strengthen protections further. These include strengthened guidance from the Committees of Advertising Practice (CAP) on protecting vulnerable people, tougher sanctions for operators who breach advertising codes and a multi-million pound safer gambling advertising campaign.</p><p> </p><p>The Industry Group for Responsible Gambling has announced that it will extend its voluntary commitment not to advertise on TV before 9pm to include advertising during sporting events. Its industry-wide code for socially responsible advertising also requires all TV adverts to feature a responsible gambling message for the duration of the advert. These are welcome moves and we encourage all those who benefit from gambling advertising to think about how they can promote safer gambling</p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 12/12/2018 22:17:02 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	1597 label Biography information for David Simpson

1020001

	registered interest
	date	04/12/2018
	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	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, which Minister of his Department is responsible for loneliness.
	tabling member constituency	Croydon North
	tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
	uin	198844
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2018 answer text <p>Loneliness policy comes under the remit of the Minister for Sport and Civil Society.</p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 10/12/2018 17:06:01 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1019778

	registered interest
	date	04/12/2018
	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	Television Licences: Older 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, how many people aged between 75 and 80 would be affected if the free licence age were raised to 80.
	tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
	tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
	uin	198745
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2018 answer text <p>The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport does not hold this information. The responsibility for the over 75 licence fee concession will transfer to the BBC in 2020 and they have released a consultation paper and other papers outlining information about the impact of different options.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 10/12/2018 17:07:35 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1019814

	registered interest
	date	04/12/2018
	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	Technology
	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 his Department has made of levels of gender diversity within the UK tech industry; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	198728
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2018 answer text <p>The UK Digital Strategy set out our commitment to enabling a more diverse digital workforce. As the digital revolution progresses, many more jobs will require digital skills and many more tech roles will be created, both in technology companies and in the general economy. We cannot afford for women, who we know only make up 19% of the tech workforce (Tech Nation Report 2018), to be excluded from or unable to progress within these roles.</p><p> </p><p>While there is substantial progress that still needs to be made, there are also significant initiatives aiming to solve the issue.</p><p> </p><p>For example, over 270 companies, from international tech giants right through to start-ups, SMEs and charities, have already signed the Tech Talent Charter (TTC) - an industry led initiative, supported by Government. The TTC gives organisations tangible actions and principles they can adopt to change their hiring and retention practices to become more gender-diverse and commits signatories to measuring the diversity profile of their UK employees and to share this data for (anonymous) collective publication in an annual report.</p><p> </p><p>There are also other industry-led programmes, across the tech ecosystem, doing valuable and innovative work to help make tech more diverse. These include the #SheMeansBusiness initiative (by Facebook in collaboration with Enterprise Nation and FSB); PWC’s Tech She Can charter, focused on getting more school-age girls to choose STEM subject and see a career in tech as a viable option for them; and Backstage Capital, which is an investment fund committed to investing in start-ups with diverse founders.</p><p> </p><p>The West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) Local Digital Skills Partnership (LDSP), launched in Coventry this month, has increasing diversity built in from the start. The PWC-led Tech She Can project mentioned above has piloted their Tech We Can lesson plans in 4 schools in the Coventry area (all with very diverse and different pupil-bases), with a view to replicating and scaling the programme nationally after the pilot phase. In a similar vein, TTC has created regional ‘communities’ of tech employers to share best practice on regional diversity, with the WMCA LDSP a future regional focus for this work.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 10/12/2018 17:27:36 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

1019828

	registered interest
	date	04/12/2018
	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	Broadband
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the oral contribution of the Minister of State for Digital and the Creative Industries of Thursday 15 November 2018, Official Report, column 545, what assessment he has made of the accuracy of the statement that using the term fibre in advertising for part-copper broadband is misleading advertising.
	tabling member constituency	Edinburgh South
	tabling member printed	Ian Murray
	uin	198802
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2018 answer text <p>The 2017 Digital Strategy set out that Government would work with regulators and industry to ensure that the advertising of broadband reflects the speeds that consumers can expect to receive and accurately describes the technology used.</p><p> </p><p>Since the Digital Strategy was published, the ASA has implemented new guidance, which states that speed claims should be based on the download speeds available to at least 50% of customers at peak time, and no longer on 'up to' speeds available to at least 10% of customers. Ofcom has also updated its Code of Practice on Broadband Speeds.</p><p> </p><p>The ASA also reviewed the use of the term ‘fibre’ to describe part-fibre and full-fibre broadband and concluded in November 2017 that the term 'fibre' is unlikely to mislead consumers as currently used in the advertising of part-fibre broadband services. In June, the Administrative Court granted CityFibre permission to proceed with its Judicial Review (JR) of the ASA's decision. The next stage is for the Administrative Court to make a substantive decision on the JR.</p><p> </p><p>The Government remains committed to working with regulators and industry to ensure that consumers receive clear, concise and accurate information in order to make informed choices about their broadband, particularly as the rollout of new technologies like full fibre broadband increases.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James grouped question UIN 198722 198803 question first answered 10/12/2018 17:17:29 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	3966 label Biography information for Ian Murray

1019830

	registered interest
	date	04/12/2018
	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	Broadband
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the oral contribution of the Minister of State for Digital and the Creative Industries of Thursday 15 November 2018, Official Report, column 545, what steps his Department is taking to tackle the misleading advertising of fibre broadband.
	tabling member constituency	Edinburgh South
	tabling member printed	Ian Murray
	uin	198803
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2018 answer text <p>The 2017 Digital Strategy set out that Government would work with regulators and industry to ensure that the advertising of broadband reflects the speeds that consumers can expect to receive and accurately describes the technology used.</p><p> </p><p>Since the Digital Strategy was published, the ASA has implemented new guidance, which states that speed claims should be based on the download speeds available to at least 50% of customers at peak time, and no longer on 'up to' speeds available to at least 10% of customers. Ofcom has also updated its Code of Practice on Broadband Speeds.</p><p> </p><p>The ASA also reviewed the use of the term ‘fibre’ to describe part-fibre and full-fibre broadband and concluded in November 2017 that the term 'fibre' is unlikely to mislead consumers as currently used in the advertising of part-fibre broadband services. In June, the Administrative Court granted CityFibre permission to proceed with its Judicial Review (JR) of the ASA's decision. The next stage is for the Administrative Court to make a substantive decision on the JR.</p><p> </p><p>The Government remains committed to working with regulators and industry to ensure that consumers receive clear, concise and accurate information in order to make informed choices about their broadband, particularly as the rollout of new technologies like full fibre broadband increases.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James grouped question UIN 198722 198802 question first answered 10/12/2018 17:17:29 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	3966 label Biography information for Ian Murray

1019831

	registered interest
	date	04/12/2018
	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	Broadband
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the oral contribution of the Minister of State for Digital and the Creative Industries of Thursday 15 November 2018, Official Report, column 545, whether his Department’s proposed Statement of Strategic Priorities to Ofcom will include measures to tackle misleading advertising of fibre broadband.
	tabling member constituency	Edinburgh South
	tabling member printed	Ian Murray
	uin	198804
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2018 answer text <p>We are currently developing our Statement of Strategic Priorities (SSP) and will consult on it in due course.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James grouped question UIN 198723 question first answered 10/12/2018 17:24:59 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	3966 label Biography information for Ian Murray

1019859

	registered interest
	date	04/12/2018
	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	Broadband
	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 taking to prevent broadband providers that deliver their service over hybrid fibre and copper networks describing that service as superfast fibre broadband.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	198722
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2018 answer text <p>The 2017 Digital Strategy set out that Government would work with regulators and industry to ensure that the advertising of broadband reflects the speeds that consumers can expect to receive and accurately describes the technology used.</p><p> </p><p>Since the Digital Strategy was published, the ASA has implemented new guidance, which states that speed claims should be based on the download speeds available to at least 50% of customers at peak time, and no longer on 'up to' speeds available to at least 10% of customers. Ofcom has also updated its Code of Practice on Broadband Speeds.</p><p> </p><p>The ASA also reviewed the use of the term ‘fibre’ to describe part-fibre and full-fibre broadband and concluded in November 2017 that the term 'fibre' is unlikely to mislead consumers as currently used in the advertising of part-fibre broadband services. In June, the Administrative Court granted CityFibre permission to proceed with its Judicial Review (JR) of the ASA's decision. The next stage is for the Administrative Court to make a substantive decision on the JR.</p><p> </p><p>The Government remains committed to working with regulators and industry to ensure that consumers receive clear, concise and accurate information in order to make informed choices about their broadband, particularly as the rollout of new technologies like full fibre broadband increases.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James grouped question UIN 198802 198803 question first answered 10/12/2018 17:17:29 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms