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1695705

	registered interest
	date	13/03/2024
	answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept id	217
	answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Football: Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues to help improve support for ex-footballers with chronic traumatic encephalopathy.
	tabling member constituency	South Staffordshire
	tabling member printed	Sir Gavin Williamson
	uin	18428
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2024 answer text <p>The safety, wellbeing and welfare of everyone taking part in sport is absolutely paramount. I welcome work by the football industry to protect players from harm and provide practical support to former players who develop neurodegenerative conditions. One example of this is the Professional Footballers’ Association’s Football Brain Health Fund, supported by the Premier League and announced in September 2023, which aims to assist former players and their families who have been impacted by dementia and other neurodegenerative conditions.</p><p>The Government continues to take the issue of head injuries very seriously. In December 2021 DCMS published its Command Paper report on concussion in sport; outlining the steps the government is undertaking to help reduce risks associated with head injuries by improving understanding, awareness, prevention and treatment of concussion in sport. As part of this, in April 2023 the Government announced the first UK concussion guidelines for grassroots sport, in conjunction with the Sport and Recreation Alliance. This guidance is intended to be a helpful tool in reducing the risks associated with concussion and marks an important step in making sport safer for thousands of people who enjoy sport at a grassroots level, as well as an aid to professional sports.</p><p>Further research on the links between health, dementia and contact sport is needed to better understand the issue. To that end, DCMS established a Sports Concussion Research Forum in July 2022 to identify key research questions that need answering in this important area.</p><p>The government remains committed to working with sports to build on the positive work that is already taking place to mitigate the causes and effects of concussion in sport.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 21/03/2024 11:16:29 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
	tabling member	4108 label Biography information for Sir Gavin Williamson

1583382

	registered interest
	date	02/02/2023
	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: Internet
	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 her Department is taking to help protect people who exclude themselves from gambling platforms.
	tabling member constituency	South Staffordshire
	tabling member printed	Sir Gavin Williamson
	uin	138360
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/02/2023 answer text <p>As a condition of their Gambling Commission licences, all operators must offer self-exclusion procedures for customers, with multi-operator self-exclusion schemes in place for both online gambling (where all operators must be integrated with the GAMSTOP scheme) and land-based sectors.</p><p>As part of the self-exclusion process, licensees must take all reasonable steps to prevent marketing materials being sent to any self-excluded individual, including removing their details from any marketing database within two days of receiving notice of self-exclusion. If a customer has registered with GAMSTOP, all operators are expected to remove them from marketing lists. Operators who fail to comply with self-exclusion requirements are subject to enforcement action from the Gambling Commission.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew grouped question UIN 138361 question first answered 21/02/2023 14:16:46 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
	tabling member	4108 label Biography information for Sir Gavin Williamson

1583383

	registered interest
	date	02/02/2023
	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
	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 her Department is taking to prevent gambling companies contacting individuals who have excluded themselves from gambling platforms by (a) postal marketing and (b) other means.
	tabling member constituency	South Staffordshire
	tabling member printed	Sir Gavin Williamson
	uin	138361
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/02/2023 answer text <p>As a condition of their Gambling Commission licences, all operators must offer self-exclusion procedures for customers, with multi-operator self-exclusion schemes in place for both online gambling (where all operators must be integrated with the GAMSTOP scheme) and land-based sectors.</p><p>As part of the self-exclusion process, licensees must take all reasonable steps to prevent marketing materials being sent to any self-excluded individual, including removing their details from any marketing database within two days of receiving notice of self-exclusion. If a customer has registered with GAMSTOP, all operators are expected to remove them from marketing lists. Operators who fail to comply with self-exclusion requirements are subject to enforcement action from the Gambling Commission.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew grouped question UIN 138360 question first answered 21/02/2023 14:16:46 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
	tabling member	4108 label Biography information for Sir Gavin Williamson

1461946

	registered interest
	date	11/05/2022
	answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
	answering dept id	211
	answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
	answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
	hansard heading	Planning
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if his Department will amend the Duty to co-operate to state that a council’s contribution to meeting another council’s employment need, or other development needs, affects an authority's contribution to housing need or vice versa.
	tabling member constituency	South Staffordshire
	tabling member printed	Sir Gavin Williamson
	uin	748
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/05/2022 answer text <p>Through the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill we are abolishing the Duty to Cooperate. The Duty has not achieved the level of co-operation that was intended and has become something of a bureaucratic exercise which, as a rigid legal test, has resulted in around 20 local plans failing at examination.</p><p>Instead, we will introduce a more flexible policy based requirement for local planning authorities to work together on local plans, through an updated National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF). The details of the new NPPF will be developed as the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill progresses through Parliament and will be consulted upon.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 19/05/2022 14:50:07 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
	tabling member	4108 label Biography information for Sir Gavin Williamson

1456413

	registered interest
	date	31/03/2022
	answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
	answering dept id	211
	answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
	answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
	hansard heading	Local Plans
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what his Department's policy is on whether a surplus contribution to meeting employment need made by a council through its local plan affects expectations for that council's contributions to housing need through the Duty to Cooperate.
	tabling member constituency	South Staffordshire
	tabling member printed	Sir Gavin Williamson
	uin	151098
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2022 answer text <p>The standard method for assessing local housing need is used by councils to inform the preparation of their local plans. Councils decide their housing requirement once they have considered their ability to meet the needs in their area. This includes taking local circumstances and constraints into account.</p><p>The duty to co-operate is a statutory requirement on councils (local planning authorities and county councils) and other public bodies. They must work together constructively, actively and on an ongoing basis in relation to planning for strategic cross boundary matters during plan preparation. This can include the redistribution of housing need and employment need between authorities where one authority cannot meet its own need.</p><p>There is no direct relationship or expectation that a contribution to meeting employment need, or other development needs, affects an authority's contribution to housing need or vice versa.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 25/04/2022 16:27:35 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
	tabling member	4108 label Biography information for Sir Gavin Williamson

1441408

	registered interest
	date	15/03/2022
	answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
	answering dept id	211
	answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
	answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
	hansard heading	Batteries: Planning Permission
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what his policy is on protecting the Green Belt from planning applications for battery storage units; and if he will update the national planning policy framework with a strategy for locating these units on land other than Green Belt land.
	tabling member constituency	South Staffordshire
	tabling member printed	Sir Gavin Williamson
	uin	140431
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2022 answer text <p>This Government has a manifesto commitment to protect and enhance the Green Belt. Our National Planning Policy Framework makes clear that most new building is inappropriate in Green Belt and should be refused permission unless in very special circumstances. Very special circumstances are not defined in national planning policy as it is rightly for the individual local authority to assess each case on its merits, and give relevant circumstances their due weight. However, when considering any planning application affecting Green Belt land, the local authority should ensure that substantial weight is given to any harm to the Green Belt.</p><p>The Framework is also clear that local authorities should support transition to a low-carbon future, including renewable and low-carbon energy generation. Local plans should identify suitable areas for renewable and low-carbon energy sources and infrastructure and guidance sets out how local authorities should take account of environmental, landscape and amenity considerations.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 22/03/2022 17:45:56 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
	tabling member	4108 label Biography information for Sir Gavin Williamson