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853280

	registered interest
	date	02/03/2018
	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	Culture, Practices and Ethics of the Press Inquiry
	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 Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport of 1 March 2018, Official Report, column 965, on Leveson Inquiry, for what reason he did not include the number of people who signed petitions in his evaluation of people in favour of reopening the Leveson Inquiry’in that Ministerial Statement.
	tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
	tabling member printed	Tom Watson
	uin	130729
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2018 answer text As I said in my statement to the House, petition signatures were not counted as direct responses and this is in line with the approach taken by other government consultations - including those on same-sex marriage and the BBC Charter Review. The number of people who signed each petition is clearly set out in our response to the consultation, and their views have been considered fully as part of the Government's deliberations on these issues. answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 08/03/2018 07:50:31 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

853281

	registered interest
	date	02/03/2018
	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	Culture, Practices and Ethics of the Press Inquiry
	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 Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport of 1 March 2018, Official Report, column 965, on the Leveson Inquiry, if he will publish the total proportion of respondents to the government consultation on the Leveson inquiry including (a) directly and (b) people who signed petitions that were in favour of reopening that inquiry.
	tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
	tabling member printed	Tom Watson
	uin	130730
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2018 answer text This is set out in the Government's response to the consultation which is published here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/leveson-consultation-response" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/leveson-consultation-response</a> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 08/03/2018 07:53:44 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

855624

	registered interest
	date	05/03/2018
	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: Coventry South
	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 his Department has made of the number of homes which have been connected to superfast broadband in Coventry South constituency.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	130931
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2018 answer text <p>According to Thinkbroadband, in Coventry South constituency over 91.44% of premises now have access to superfast broadband. This is up from 38% in 2010.</p><p> </p><p>Approximately 42,658 premises in Coventry South can now access superfast broadband out of a total of 45,500.</p><p><br> From 2020 we are also introducing a broadband Universal Service Obligation so everyone across the UK will have a clear, enforceable right to request high-speed broadband.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 08/03/2018 16:34:56 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

855625

	registered interest
	date	05/03/2018
	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: Coventry
	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 his Department has made of the number of homes which have been connected to superfast broadband in Coventry.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	130932
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2018 answer text <p>According to Thinkbroadband, over 95.7% of premises in Coventry now have access to superfast broadband.</p><p> </p><p>Approximately 136,461 premises in Coventry currently have access to superfast broadband.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 08/03/2018 11:57:31 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

855620

	registered interest
	date	05/03/2018
	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: West Midlands
	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 and what proportion of homes are connected to superfast broadband in the West Midlands.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	130927
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2018 answer text <p>According to Thinkbroadband, over 96.42% of premises in the West Midlands now have access to superfast broadband. This is up from 65% in 2010.</p><p> </p><p>There are approximately 2.5 million premises in the West Midlands region, of which 2.41 million have access to superfast broadband.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 08/03/2018 11:58:55 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

851536

	registered interest
	date	28/02/2018
	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	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport: Business Interests
	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 members of his Department's board are responsible for ensuring the proper application of the business appointment rules for former Ministers and senior civil servants.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	130299
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2018 answer text <p>Applications by former Ministers are considered by the independent Advisory Committee on Business Appointments directly.</p><p> </p><p>For applications from former Civil Servants: Departmental Audit and Risk Committees, which are chaired by Departmental Non Executive Directors, will monitor compliance issues relating to the Business Appointment Rules at regular intervals.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 08/03/2018 13:00:06 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

855487

	registered interest
	date	05/03/2018
	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	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport: 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 estimate he has made of the volume of UK citizens’ data held by companies (a) supplying cloud services to his department and (b) contracted to deliver cloud services on behalf of his Department that is subject to information requests from US Government bodies.
	tabling member constituency	North Wiltshire
	tabling member printed	James Gray
	uin	130794
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2018 answer text <p>DCMS does not centrally collect the specific data requested.</p><p> </p><p>Information regarding contracts above the value of £10,000 is published on Contracts Finder on GOV.UK, available at https://www.gov.uk/contracts-finder.</p><p> </p><p>The Interception of Communications Commissioner and the Information Commissioner’s Office also have responsibilities in this area.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 08/03/2018 11:43:44 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	261 label Biography information for James Gray

855783

	registered interest
	date	05/03/2018
	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	Young People: Voluntary Work
	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 Youth Full Time Social Action Review published in January 2018, what steps he is taking to widen participation in youth full-time social action programmes, particularly by people from low income backgrounds.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	131088
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2018 answer text <p>Government is committed to ensuring that young people can take part in social action projects and programmes regardless of their background. The yearly independent National Youth Social Action Survey reports on the socio-economic gap in participation enabling us to monitor year on year progress and to take action to close this gap. In 2016 the survey identified a participation gap of 9% points between the most affluent and least affluent, down from 20% points in 2014.</p><p> </p><p>Government has invested £20 million of seed funding as part of the match funded #iwill fund to provide opportunities to young people to participate in meaningful social action. The #iwill Fund works closely with match funders to identify cold spots and directs funding to engage the hard to reach.</p><p> </p><p>The National Citizen Service (NCS) Trust also ensure young people from all backgrounds are able to participate. In summer 2016, 17% of NCS participants were eligible for free school meals compared with around 8% of young people of the same age in the general population.</p><p> </p><p>The Government will issue its response to the Review of Full Time Social Action by Young People in due course.</p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 08/03/2018 14:56:19 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

855684

	registered interest
	date	05/03/2018
	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	Sports
	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 she has made of trends in participation in sports that are funded by UK Sport.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
	tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
	uin	130990
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2018 answer text <p>Sport England is the arms length body of government responsible for supporting and investing in participation in grassroot sport. It does not make specific assessments of participation rates of sports on the basis that they receive funding from UK Sport. UK Sport is the arms length body of government responsible for supporting and investing in Olympic and Paralympic sport to maximise UK athlete success, and does not allocate funding on the basis of participation rates.</p><p> </p><p>Sport England's Active Lives Survey captures data on physical activity levels in England, together with data on the numbers of people aged 16+ participating in sports. Details of the most recent Active Lives Survey data release covering the period May 2016-May 2017 can be found here: https://www.sportengland.org/media/12458/active-lives-adult-may-16-17-report.pdf. Details of the data tables on participation rates of sports can be found here: http://www.sportengland.org/media/12452/tables-5-9_twice-in-the-last-28-days.xlsx</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 08/03/2018 14:08:03 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
	tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

852629

	registered interest
	date	01/03/2018
	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: Northern Ireland
	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 the Northern Ireland authorities on the roll-out of superfast and ultrafast broadband in Northern Ireland.
	tabling member constituency	Belfast North
	tabling member printed	Nigel Dodds
	uin	130625
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2018 answer text <p>Superfast broadband is now available to over 86% of homes and businesses in Northern Ireland. The current publicly-funded superfast broadband roll-out project in Northern Ireland is due to complete this month and will have provided coverage to 41,000 premises. The UK government funding for this project was £7.054 million. Given the scale of the challenge in delivering broadband coverage in Northern Ireland, the UK government allocated a further £150 million for ultrafast broadband in Northern Ireland in the June 2017 funding agreement for Northern Ireland.</p><p> </p><p>The government has regular discussions with the Northern Ireland authorities on both the delivery of the current project and proposals for taking forward new funding.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 08/03/2018 12:58:12 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	1388 label Biography information for Lord Dodds of Duncairn