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1178188

	registered interest
	date	13/02/2020
	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	Football: Clubs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the governance of premier league football clubs.
	tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
	tabling member printed	Justin Madders
	uin	900809
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/02/2020 answer text <p>Football clubs are the heart of local communities, they have unique social value and many with a great history. It is vital they are protected and fans should have their voices heard.</p><p> </p><p>The governance of football is first and foremost a matter for the relevant authorities, in this case the Premier League and the Football Association. These bodies have a duty to govern the sport and provide assurances to fans, players and indeed employees, that proper protections are in place.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>However, we have committed to a fan led review of football governance, which will include consideration of the Owners’ and Directors’ test, to ensure we protect the game for fans.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>We will liaise closely with fan representatives and the football authorities as we decide the scope and structure of this work.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Selby and Ainsty answering member printed Nigel Adams question first answered 13/02/2020 12:20:27 answering member 4057 label Biography information for Nigel Adams
	tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

1177511

	registered interest
	date	10/02/2020
	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: Equal Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister of State, Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps he is taking to close the gender pay gap in his Department.
	tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
	tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
	uin	14838
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/02/2020 answer text <p>The DCMS mean and median gender pay gaps have reduced since 2018. The mean gender pay gap is 5.6%, down from 7.5% and the median gender pay is 16.6%, down from 22.9%. We have introduced actions recommended by the Government Equalities Office to support further reductions including:</p><ol><li><p>Improving the diversity of our talent pools through analysing gendered language in our job descriptions and adverts to ensure no-one is deterred by masculine or feminine framing.</p></li><li><p>Improving the transparency of pay, reward and promotion processes to empower individuals to manage their careers and achieve goals.</p></li><li><p>Promoting the uptake of Shared Parental Leave, using our Senior Civil Servants as rode models and our Diversity and Inclusion Ambassadors as champions.</p></li></ol><p> </p> answering member constituency Selby and Ainsty answering member printed Nigel Adams question first answered 13/02/2020 12:19:14 answering member 4057 label Biography information for Nigel Adams
	tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin

1177037

	registered interest
	date	07/02/2020
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister of State, Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate his Department has made of the amount of additional annual BBC revenue following the implementation on (a) ending free TV licence for all over 75's and (b) proposed increases in the annual licence fee.
	tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
	tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
	uin	13940
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/02/2020 answer text <p>In 2015, the Government agreed a licence fee funding settlement with the BBC for a five year period between 2017 and 2022. We agreed that responsibility for the over 75 licence fee concession would transfer to the BBC in June 2020. In return, we closed the iPlayer loophole, committed to increase the licence fee in line with inflation for each year of the settlement period, and reduced a number of other BBC spending commitments.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The BBC reports annually on the revenue raised by the licence fee in the ‘Television Licence Fee Trust Statement’ available on the TV Licensing website. For 2017/18, it said that it received an additional £23m as a result of the uplift in the level of the licence fee. For 2018/19, it said that it received an additional £79 million to BBC revenue as a result of the increase.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The estimate for the impact on BBC revenue following the implementation of the revised over 75 licence fee concession from June 2020 is a matter for the BBC.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Selby and Ainsty answering member printed Nigel Adams question first answered 13/02/2020 12:18:20 answering member 4057 label Biography information for Nigel Adams
	tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1176884

	registered interest
	date	06/02/2020
	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	Cinemas: Hearing Impairment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister of State, Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of facilities in cinemas for deaf children and young people that require subtitles.
	tabling member constituency	Nottingham South
	tabling member printed	Lilian Greenwood
	uin	13526
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2020 answer text <p>The Government recognises the importance of ensuring that the cinema experience is accessible to as wide a range of people as possible, including the deaf and hard of hearing. We welcome steps taken by industry, including the UK Cinema Association's Technology Challenge Fund, to explore solutions to enable this, for example through specially adapted glasses. We also welcome the fact that the National Deaf Children's Society are advisors on this project.</p> answering member constituency Selby and Ainsty answering member printed Nigel Adams question first answered 11/02/2020 13:10:28 answering member 4057 label Biography information for Nigel Adams
	tabling member	4029 label Biography information for Lilian Greenwood

1176358

	registered interest
	date	05/02/2020
	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	Football: Females
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister of State, Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what plans he has to increase the number of female football coaches.
	tabling member constituency	Sunderland Central
	tabling member printed	Julie Elliott
	uin	12883
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2020 answer text <p>Our national sports council, Sport England, is investing £2 million per year into the Football Association (FA) to support their work to make their coaching workforce more representative of wider society. This includes providing bursaries to support women and people from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds to develop their coaching abilities from the grassroots to the elite levels of the game.</p><p><strong><br></strong>Government’s Sporting Future strategy recognised the important role coaching plays in helping people become and stay active. Sport England, evaluated the coaching landscape and developed a new coaching plan for England, ‘Coaching in an Active Nation’, which was published in November 2016. This was developed following consultation with coaches, coach educators and national governing bodies of sport, including the FA, and looks to increase diversity in coaching to better reflect underrepresented groups.</p> answering member constituency Selby and Ainsty answering member printed Nigel Adams question first answered 10/02/2020 17:15:20 answering member 4057 label Biography information for Nigel Adams
	tabling member	4127 label Biography information for Julie Elliott

1176360

	registered interest
	date	05/02/2020
	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	Football: Females
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister of State, Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what plans his Department has to allocate funding from the public purse to the development of women's football.
	tabling member constituency	Sunderland Central
	tabling member printed	Julie Elliott
	uin	12885
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2020 answer text <p>We are determined to encourage more women and girls to get active, something we set out in our sport strategy, Sporting Future. Football is a popular choice for women and girls to get active: it is the second most popular team sport in terms of participation for adult women, and the top ranked team sport in terms of participation for girls. It is also growing in appeal for spectators with a record total audience of 28.1 million tuning in to watch the BBC coverage of last year’s FIFA Women’s World Cup.</p><p>Through our national sports council, Sport England, the government is investing £24.6m in The Football Association over the course of 2016-21 for its work on grassroots participation, the football talent pathway, and coaching programmes. Within this, there is no specific ring-fencing of funding between men's and women's programmes, apart from £2.6m which is specifically reserved for women and girls talent programmes.</p><p>Sport England has also awarded The FA £544,500 to date to deliver The FA FIVES national promotion programme, a mass participation five a side football competition linked to EURO 2020. Its aim is to provide opportunities throughout England for men and women to take part in a fun, friendly football event.</p><p>Separately, the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport invested £18m in football facilities through the Football Foundation in each of 2017, 2018 and 2019. It is not possible to separate out the investment amounts by gender.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Selby and Ainsty answering member printed Nigel Adams question first answered 10/02/2020 17:13:08 answering member 4057 label Biography information for Nigel Adams
	tabling member	4127 label Biography information for Julie Elliott

1176361

	registered interest
	date	05/02/2020
	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	Listed Events
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister of State, Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what plans his Department has to categorise the (a) Women's Football European Championship, (b) Women's Football World Cup, (c) Women's FA Cup and (d) other competitions listed for male sportspeople as Listed Events for free to air sports viewing.
	tabling member constituency	Sunderland Central
	tabling member printed	Julie Elliott
	uin	12886
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2020 answer text <p>In September 2019 the government consulted on whether to add women’s equivalents of men’s events currently on the list to both group A and group B categories. The consultation closed on 11 December 2019. The government is now carefully considering the responses in detail and we will respond in due course.</p> answering member constituency Selby and Ainsty answering member printed Nigel Adams question first answered 10/02/2020 17:13:55 answering member 4057 label Biography information for Nigel Adams
	tabling member	4127 label Biography information for Julie Elliott

1176369

	registered interest
	date	05/02/2020
	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	Football: Sportsgrounds
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister of State, Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if he will make it his policy to introduce safe-standing at football stadia in the event that the Sports Ground Safety Authority review makes that recommendation.
	tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
	tabling member printed	Catherine West
	uin	12968
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2020 answer text <p>As set out in our manifesto, the government is already committed to work with fans and clubs towards introducing safe standing. To deliver this we will be relying upon the expertise of the Sports Grounds Safety Authority to ensure existing levels of safety are maintained, and I welcome the latest findings from research they have commissioned in this area.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Over a million people watch live football at a ground every week, and this an issue many feel passionately about, but it is imperative that watching football continues to be safe. The SGSA will continue to gather evidence over the remainder of this season and work with the relevant authorities, clubs and fans to deliver our commitments.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Selby and Ainsty answering member printed Nigel Adams question first answered 10/02/2020 17:20:50 answering member 4057 label Biography information for Nigel Adams
	tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

1176007

	registered interest
	date	04/02/2020
	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	Football: Bosworth
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister of State, Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps his Department will take to use the legacy of Euro 2020 to improve grassroots football facilities in Bosworth constituency.
	tabling member constituency	Bosworth
	tabling member printed	Dr Luke Evans
	uin	12442
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2020 answer text <p>The Government is committed to ensuring people across the country have access to football facilities, which is why we committed to investing £550m into grassroots football facilities over the next 10 years.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The government has also committed £1m to support The Football Association’s and Sport England’s programme to raise awareness and promote Euro 2020 across England. This includes improving football facilities around the country - known as the ‘National Promotion Programme’. The ‘National Promotion Programme’ will focus on both new and existing community football facilities, forming part of the existing National Football Facilities Strategy.</p><p> </p><p>The Football Foundation, who provide Exchequer funding on behalf of Sport England as well as other investments funded by the FA and Premier League, have already invested £1,803,840 for football projects in the constituency of Bosworth. This includes £1,750,044 for facilities that have supported Hinckley United FC, the Richmond Park Sporting Hub, Market Bosworth Sports Club, and Greentowers FC Hinckley.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Selby and Ainsty answering member printed Nigel Adams question first answered 10/02/2020 17:18:25 answering member 4057 label Biography information for Nigel Adams
	tabling member	4781 label Biography information for Dr Luke Evans

1176019

	registered interest
	date	04/02/2020
	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	Commonwealth Games 2022
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister of State, Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether (a) verbal and (b) written guidance has been issued to the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games delivery authority on becoming accredited by the Living Wage Foundation as a living wage employer.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hodge Hill
	tabling member printed	Liam Byrne
	uin	12212
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2020 answer text <p>The Department has confirmed to the Organising Committee for the 2022 Commonwealth Games that it should ensure that its staff and contractors are paid the national living wage, in line with the government’s policy. The Organising Committee also asks suppliers to demonstrate how they support its Social Values Charter as part of the procurement process. The Social Values Charter is on the Organising Committee’s website at <a href="https://www.birmingham2022.com/news/blog/delivering-social-value/" target="_blank">https://www.birmingham2022.com/news/blog/delivering-social-value/</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Selby and Ainsty answering member printed Nigel Adams question first answered 10/02/2020 10:15:47 answering member 4057 label Biography information for Nigel Adams
	tabling member	1171 label Biography information for Liam Byrne