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1024607

	registered interest
	date	13/12/2018
	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	Cultural Relations
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What steps his Department is taking to promote cultural diplomacy.
	tabling member constituency	Stafford
	tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
	uin	908182
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2018 answer text <p>I refer the Hon Member to my response during Topical questions today in the Chamber.</p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis grouped question UIN 908184 question first answered 13/12/2018 13:05:21 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
	tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy

1024608

	registered interest
	date	13/12/2018
	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	What steps his Department is taking to help tackle loneliness.
	tabling member constituency	Henley
	tabling member printed	John Howell
	uin	908183
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2018 answer text <p>We recently published our strategy for tackling loneliness. This set out a raft of cross-government measures to take the first steps in tackling loneliness and takes forward recommendations from the Jo Cox Commission.</p><p> </p><p>DCMS specifically is providing up to £1.8million to increase the number of community spaces available. This follows the announcement this summer of more than £20million of new funding for projects that bring people and communities together.</p><p> </p><p>With the Office of National Statistics, the department has developed the ‘loneliness measure’ (to enable consistent analysis and build the evidence base), and will be piloting better use of open data around facilities and accessibility with local government. The department is launching an awareness campaign and including loneliness in internet safety.</p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies grouped question UIN 908187 question first answered 13/12/2018 17:17:15 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	1606 label Biography information for John Howell

1024610

	registered interest
	date	13/12/2018
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What steps he is taking to reduce gambling-related harm.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
	tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
	uin	908185
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2018 answer text The government published the Review of Gaming Machines and Social Responsibility Measures in May. This set out measures to strengthen protections around gaming machines, including cutting the maximum stake on B2 machines from £100 to £2, and on online gambling and gambling advertising. It also set out action on treatment and support for those who experience harm, including initiatives to improve the evidence on treatment needs and effectiveness, expand access to existing services and strengthen the voluntary system for funding support. We take gambling-related harm very seriously and will work closely across Government and with the Gambling Commission to build on the actions outlined in the Review. answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies grouped question UIN 908186 908188 question first answered 13/12/2018 17:40:12 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

1024611

	registered interest
	date	13/12/2018
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What steps he is taking to reduce gambling-related harm.
	tabling member constituency	Midlothian
	tabling member printed	Danielle Rowley
	uin	908186
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2018 answer text The government published the Review of Gaming Machines and Social Responsibility Measures in May. This set out measures to strengthen protections around gaming machines, including cutting the maximum stake on B2 machines from £100 to £2, and on online gambling and gambling advertising. It also set out action on treatment and support for those who experience harm, including initiatives to improve the evidence on treatment needs and effectiveness, expand access to existing services and strengthen the voluntary system for funding support. We take gambling-related harm very seriously and will work closely across Government and with the Gambling Commission to build on the actions outlined in the Review. answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies grouped question UIN 908185 908188 question first answered 13/12/2018 17:40:12 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4628 label Biography information for Danielle Rowley

1024609

	registered interest
	date	13/12/2018
	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	Cultural Relations
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What steps he is taking to co-ordinate cultural diplomacy across Departments.
	tabling member constituency	Mid Sussex
	tabling member printed	Sir Nicholas Soames
	uin	908184
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2018 answer text <p>I refer the Hon Member to my response during Topical questions today in the Chamber.</p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis grouped question UIN 908182 question first answered 13/12/2018 13:05:21 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
	tabling member	116 label Biography information for Lord Soames of Fletching

1020338

	registered interest
	date	05/12/2018
	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, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of increasing restrictions on the use of cartoons and animated figures in gambling advertising campaigns to ensure that they are not targeted at young people.
	tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
	tabling member printed	Tom Watson
	uin	199337
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2018 answer text <p>Strict rules already ensure gambling adverts are not targeted at, or appeal to, children, or exploit the vulnerable, and these apply across all media, including online and on social media.</p><p> </p><p>Gambling operators are required to comply with the advertising codes of practice issued by the Committees of Advertising Practice (CAP). These are enforced by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA). In addition to rules covering children, the advertising codes have specific provisions to protect vulnerable people, and CAP’s new guidance in February further restricted adverts that create an inappropriate sense of urgency or give an irresponsible perception of risk or control.</p><p> </p><p>Gambling adverts must not feature content that risks appealing to children, for example cartoon animals. Last year the Gambling Commission and ASA acted quickly to make clear that operators using such images were in breach of advertising rules and must remove the material or face enforcement action. In addition to rules on content, the ASA has made clear that operators advertising online must use data on customers’ interests to target marketing campaigns away from children.</p><p> </p><p>The government considered gambling advertising as part of our Review of Gaming Machines and Social Responsibility Measures and set out a package of initiatives to strengthen protections further, including further CAP guidance on protecting children and young people, and tougher Gambling Commission sanctions for breaches of the advertising codes, including fines.</p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies grouped question UIN 199330 question first answered 13/12/2018 16:59:04 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

1020425

	registered interest
	date	05/12/2018
	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, what steps his Department is taking to protect youth volunteering charities from financial difficulty; when his Department became aware of the financial difficulties facing vInspired; whether his Department is aware of other regional providers of the National Citizen Service who are in similar financial difficulties; and what estimate his Department has made of the number of young people affected by the closure of vInspired.
	tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
	tabling member printed	Cat Smith
	uin	199447
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2018 answer text <p>DCMS invests in youth organisations in a number of ways including the National Citizen Service and the Youth Investment and #iwill Funds in partnership with Big Lottery Fund.</p><p> </p><p>Independent charities are responsible for managing their own funding through various mechanisms including donations, trading and investment; and are accountable for their own financial solvency.</p><p> </p><p>vInspired informed DCMS officials that they were in financial difficulties and expected to shortly commence insolvency procedures in November 2018.</p><p> </p><p>vInspired Education are responsible for delivering the NCS programme in the North East, however this is a separate legal entity to vInspired. We are not aware of any regional providers of NCS who are in financial difficulties.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has assessed that there is no impact to young people on the NCS programme in the North East, and we do not currently hold an estimate of the number of young people who may be affected by other services vInspired provided.</p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 13/12/2018 17:01:02 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

1023809

	registered interest
	date	12/12/2018
	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, what steps his Department is taking to help tackle loneliness.
	tabling member constituency	Crawley
	tabling member printed	Henry Smith
	uin	908187
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2018 answer text <p>We recently published our strategy for tackling loneliness. This set out a raft of cross-government measures to take the first steps in tackling loneliness and takes forward recommendations from the Jo Cox Commission.</p><p> </p><p>DCMS specifically is providing up to £1.8million to increase the number of community spaces available. This follows the announcement this summer of more than £20million of new funding for projects that bring people and communities together.</p><p> </p><p>With the Office of National Statistics, the department has developed the ‘loneliness measure’ (to enable consistent analysis and build the evidence base), and will be piloting better use of open data around facilities and accessibility with local government. The department is launching an awareness campaign and including loneliness in internet safety.</p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies grouped question UIN 908183 question first answered 13/12/2018 17:17:15 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

1020214

	registered interest
	date	05/12/2018
	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	Public Libraries: Children
	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 ensure the safeguarding of children in unstaffed libraries.
	tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
	tabling member printed	Tom Watson
	uin	199331
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2018 answer text <p>The Department encourages local authorities to consider a range of approaches to support and enhance the delivery of their library services, such as making appropriate use of available technology. A number of library services are using technology to enable access for library users to library buildings outside staffed hours on a self service basis. The systems often include controlled access technology involving CCTV and communication systems. Good practice guidance, from the Libraries Taskforce, encourages library services to undertake a risk assessment before implementing such a service and also advises that it is important that staffed hours meet the requirements of children and young adults who wish to visit the library unaccompanied. In managing the safeguarding of children, library services that use these systems do not allow children under a specified age to access the library at unstaffed times unless accompanied by an adult.</p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis question first answered 13/12/2018 13:03:48 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
	tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

1022997

	registered interest
	date	10/12/2018
	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	Music: Education
	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 support he has given to music conservatoires.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	200591
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2018 answer text <p>The Arts Council England (ACE) invests substantially in supporting the music education landscape. The Arts Council’s £75m investment in music education hubs reflects the government’s belief that all students should have access to an excellent, well-rounded education which includes the arts and music. ACE has also recently provided funding to Leeds College of Music for a festival of cutting edge music, sound art and visual installations; and the Royal Northern College of Music for the 2018 RNCM Brass Band Festival.</p><p> </p><p>In particular, ACE supports the orchestral sector’s engagement with conservatoires by working with Conservatoires UK to encourage collaboration between conservatories and the ACE National Youth Music Organisations, National Portfolio Organisations and Music Education Hubs.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 13/12/2018 12:49:02 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan