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1568867

	registered interest
	date	19/01/2023
	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	Holiday Accommodation
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the resources available to local authorities to process short-term lets licensing and applications.
	tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
	uin	HL4924
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2023 answer text <p>On 7 December 2022, His Majesty’s Government amended the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill to create a power to establish a registration scheme for short-term lets. Further details on how the scheme will operate, including how it will be administered, will be explored through a public consultation which will be published at the earliest opportunity this year.</p> answering member printed Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay question first answered 03/02/2023 14:27:56 answering member 4728 label Biography information for Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay
	tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

1568868

	registered interest
	date	19/01/2023
	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	Digital Technology: Disadvantaged
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact of digital poverty on young people and their households.
	tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
	uin	HL4925
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2023 answer text <p>HM Government recognises that digital skills and digital access are increasingly required to participate in many aspects of society.</p><p>The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport works with third-sector organisations across the UK to understand the challenges facing people in digital poverty. The Digital Poverty Alliance, one of our partners, has recently published an evidence review which made an assessment of the impact of digital poverty on young people and their households. This has found that 30 per cent of young people aged 8–25 (2.1 million people) are at risk of becoming ‘digital castaways’ and that 42 per cent of young people (6 million people) do not have either home broadband or a laptop/desktop computer. Young people who are digitally excluded are less likely to be in well-paying jobs, have worse health outcomes, and have an overall lower quality of life.</p><p>We also work across Government and with the private sector to ensure that the needs of digitally excluded people are considered. For example, DCMS has negotiated a range of high-quality, low-cost social tariffs for households in receipt of Universal Credit and other means-tested benefits, including Pension Credit. These are available across 99 per cent of the UK.</p> answering member printed Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay question first answered 03/02/2023 14:24:35 answering member 4728 label Biography information for Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay
	tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

1552247

	registered interest
	date	15/12/2022
	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	Community Development and New Businesses: Urban Areas
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to develop community enterprises and entrepreneurship that are based around (1) local, and (2) circular, economies within town centres.
	tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
	uin	HL4347
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/12/2022 answer text <p>His Majesty’s Government recognises the positive contribution of social and community enterprises to society and the economy, including their vital role supporting local areas.</p><p>DCMS has launched the £4.1 million Social Enterprise Boost Fund to provide targeted support for early-stage social enterprises in disadvantaged places. This new fund will provide capacity-building such as business support, training, networking, one-to-one support and peer learning, and includes £1.5 million of grants for entrepreneurs to kick-start their social enterprises.</p><p>In addition to the Social Enterprise Boost Fund, DCMS supports the sector through the £900,000 Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise Contract Readiness Fund, developed to increase social and community enterprise participation in public service delivery.</p><p>BEIS provides support through The Start Up Loans Company, a subsidiary of the British Business Bank, providing loans between £500 and £25,000 and pre- and post-application support to new entrepreneurs across the UK, including a year of free business mentoring for successful applicants.</p><p><strong></strong><br><br></p> answering member printed Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay question first answered 30/12/2022 13:31:14 answering member 4728 label Biography information for Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay
	tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

1551418

	registered interest
	date	13/12/2022
	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	Charities: Rents and Utilities
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to help small charities with increases in (1) rent, and (2) utility, bills.
	tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
	uin	HL4269
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2022 answer text <p>His Majesty’s Government is supporting small charities with their energy bills until March 2023, through the Energy Bill Relief Scheme. His Majesty’s Treasury and the Department for Business, Energy &amp; Industrial Strategy are currently undertaking a review to determine what support will be available for organisations from April 2023.</p><p>Charities and community amateur sports clubs can also apply for charitable rate relief of up to 80% if a property is used for charitable purposes (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/apply-for-business-rate-relief/charitable-rate-relief" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/apply-for-business-rate-relief/charitable-rate-relief</a>).</p><p>With Government support, small charities have shown significant resilience over the past few years, and will again be crucial in supporting communities and households through the winter. My Department will keep engaging constructively across the sector, and with colleagues across Government, to monitor the impact of rising costs.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay question first answered 20/12/2022 17:25:29 answering member 4728 label Biography information for Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay
	tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

1548298

	registered interest
	date	05/12/2022
	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	Social Media: Age
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have, if any, to introduce a requirement for age blocks for social media sites.
	tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
	uin	HL4042
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2022 answer text <p>The strongest protections in the Online Safety Bill are for children.</p><p>We expect companies operating sites likely to be accessed by children to use age verification technologies and measures such age assurance to ensure that only children who are old enough are able to access an age-restricted service. The Government also recently announced that it will make changes to the Bill to require services with age restrictions to explain, in their terms of service, the measures they use to enforce these, such as the use of age assurance or age verification technologies, and apply these terms consistently. This means that social media sites and other platforms are held to account for what they say in their terms of service, but will not mandate sites to have a minimum age restriction. Such a requirement could have a negative impact on the ability of children to access appropriate online services and to derive benefit from them.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay question first answered 19/12/2022 17:44:01 answering member 4728 label Biography information for Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay
	tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

1541072

	registered interest
	date	09/11/2022
	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	Electronic Commerce
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact that the Electronic Trade Documents Bill [HL] would have, if enacted, broken down by local authority area.
	tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
	uin	HL3329
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2022 answer text <p>His Majesty’s Government has conducted its own impact assessment of the benefits of the Electronic Trade Documents Bill and found that, in our best estimate scenario, the benefits to UK businesses involved in international trade will be £1.137 billion over 10 years. We intend to publish the impact assessment shortly.</p><p>There is a diverse and geographically dispersed range of businesses involved in international trade in the UK, according to <a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/businessindustryandtrade/business/businessservices/datasets/annualbusinesssurveyimportersandexporters" target="_blank">ONS figures</a>. In 2020, there were 263,000 exporting businesses in the UK, 124,000 of which exported goods; further <a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/businessindustryandtrade/business/businessservices/datasets/annualbusinesssurveyimportersandexporters" target="_blank">ONS estimates</a> show that around 75% of UK businesses which exported in 2020 are based outside London. Current research does not allow us to assess impacts at the local authority level, however.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay question first answered 23/11/2022 17:41:33 answering member 4728 label Biography information for Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay
	tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

1540423

	registered interest
	date	07/11/2022
	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	Ethnic Groups and Migrants: Digital Technology
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to support the voluntary and community sector to (1) support access, and (2) provide digital skills, for (a) migrant communities, and (b) ethnic minorities.
	tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
	uin	HL3264
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2022 answer text <p>The voluntary and community sector plays a vital role in supporting people across the country in their everyday lives.</p><p>We recognise that digital skills and access are increasingly required to participate fully in society, and that digital exclusion makes it more difficult for people to use essential services.</p><p>To support access, the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport continues to encourage operators to offer social tariffs, which provide low-cost mobile and broadband services for people on Universal Credit as well as other means-tested benefits. We continue to work closely with Ofcom, consumer groups, and the sector to raise awareness of these low-cost offers. For those unable to own a device with internet access, public libraries play an important role in providing access to the internet, with trained staff and volunteers to support users. The Department for Education’s Digital Entitlement allows for adults with no or low digital skills (below level 1) to study for Essential Digital Skills Qualifications (EDSQs) for free.</p><p>The size of the challenge, however, means that we cannot tackle the digital divide on our own. The involvement of the voluntary and community sector is crucial, and support can be most effective where providers are able to tailor their support to local needs.</p><p>DCMS will continue to engage with the sector and across Government on this topic.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay question first answered 21/11/2022 17:09:44 answering member 4728 label Biography information for Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay
	tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

1538425

	registered interest
	date	01/11/2022
	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	Third Sector: Finance
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government how much money they have spent in the last 12 months on funding third-sector organisations that help (1) children, and (2) vulnerable groups.
	tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
	uin	HL3125
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/11/2022 answer text <p>Third-sector organisations work with a range of different government departments across a variety of issues and topics. As such, DCMS does not hold central data on all spending to third-sector organisations from across His Majesty’s Government.</p><p>Annual statistics for all grants distributed by HM Government can, however, be found on GOV.UK <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/government-grants-data-and-statistics" target="_blank">here</a>. As well as providing a general overview, the site allows users to search for grants awarded to charities, by downloading the latest grants statistical tables and filtering by a charity’s registered number.</p> answering member printed Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay question first answered 14/11/2022 16:37:17 answering member 4728 label Biography information for Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay
	tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

1484949

	registered interest
	date	29/06/2022
	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	Motor Sports: Racial Discrimination
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they will take, alongside sporting bodies and associations, to address racism in motorsport.
	tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
	uin	HL1366
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2022 answer text <p>Racism has no place in society. Her Majesty’s Government is committed to working with our arm’s length bodies, sporting bodies and sector partners to ensure sport does all it can to tackle racism and all forms of discrimination.</p><p>We were extremely dismayed to hear about the recent racist remarks made about Sir Lewis Hamilton but commend Formula 1’s zero-tolerance approach to harassment and discrimination. Alongside work under Formula 1’s anti-racist platform <a href="https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/tags.we-race-as-one.3Wk5Bj3uRQOXQZHaSNq2L.html" target="_blank">We Race As One</a>, their swift condemnation of Nelson Piquet’s racist remarks has led to their decision to implement a life-time ban on his attendance at races. In addition, the British Racing Drivers’ Club has suspended Mr Piquet as a member, citing its zero-tolerance policy toward racism and stating it expects formally to terminate his membership at a board meeting to be held within seven days.</p><p>Last year we also welcomed the work of the Royal Academy of Engineering and Sir Lewis Hamilton which is aimed at improving the representation of Black people in UK motor sport. However there is still more to do, and we will continue to work across Her Majesty’s Government and with sector partners to ensure that inequalities people from ethnically diverse backgrounds face in sport, including motorsports, are being tackled effectively.</p> answering member printed Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay question first answered 15/07/2022 13:12:14 answering member 4728 label Biography information for Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay
	tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

1484952

	registered interest
	date	29/06/2022
	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	Internet: Children
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to include a statutory watchdog to advocate for children as users of online services, funded by a levy on the tech industry, in the Online Safety Bill.
	tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
	uin	HL1369
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2022 answer text <p>Protecting children online sits at the heart of the new Online Safety Bill. The new regime will ensure that children are protected from harmful or inappropriate content such as grooming, bullying, pornography and the promotion of self-harm and eating disorders.</p><p>Once the regime is operational, Ofcom’s new responsibilities under the Bill will be fully funded by industry fees. They will oversee and enforce service providers’ compliance with the duties in the Bill, including the child safety duties.</p><p>The regulatory framework is already designed to capture the insight and expertise of organisations that represent the interests of children. For example, Ofcom must consult relevant experts when designing its codes of practice, which will determine the recommended safety measures platforms put in place. It must also undertake research into users’ experience of regulated services, which will inform its regulatory approach and priorities. In addition, the Bill expands the remit of the Communications Consumer Panel. This panel, which is an independent group of experts, will act on behalf of users by conducting research, carrying out consultations and giving advice to Ofcom. Ofcom will also have the flexibility to choose other mechanisms better to understand users and their experiences as it deems appropriate. Finally, the super-complaints mechanism will also ensure that Ofcom is alerted by eligible bodies, which will include advocacy bodies like the Children's Commissioners, to any significant or systemic risks to children, though the ongoing consultation and research will likely mean Ofcom is able to tackle such issues upstream.</p><p>Adding an additional ‘watchdog’ would duplicate the existing provisions in the Bill, creating a confusing landscape. This would not be in the best interests of children.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay question first answered 13/07/2022 16:51:29 answering member 4728 label Biography information for Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay
	tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick