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1143335

	registered interest
	date	02/09/2019
	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	Arts
	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 his Department has had Trade Union representatives for the creative industries on the effect on that sector of the UK leaving the EU without a withdrawal agreement.
	tabling member constituency	Bristol West
	tabling member printed	Thangam Debbonaire
	uin	284868
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2019 answer text <p>The creative industries are one of the UK's greatest success stories, producing an extraordinary level of talent recognised and respected the world over. The UK's decision to leave the EU will not change that.</p><p> </p><p>While we have not held meetings with trade union representatives, we have held a series of ministerial roundtables with the creative industries to ensure they are aware of Government information on EU Exit and on the impacts and opportunities of leaving the EU without a withdrawal agreement. We will continue to work closely with the creative sectors as we continue our preparations.</p> answering member constituency Selby and Ainsty answering member printed Nigel Adams question first answered 05/09/2019 16:52:44 answering member 4057 label Biography information for Nigel Adams
	tabling member	4433 label Biography information for Thangam Debbonaire

1150861

	registered interest
	date	21/10/2019
	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	National Citizen Service Trust
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, when she or her Department was made aware of the contractual dispute between NCS Trust and the largest provider of National Citizen Service, The Challenge.
	tabling member constituency	Streatham
	tabling member printed	Chuka Umunna
	uin	2742
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2019 answer text <p>The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport were formally made aware of the contractual dispute between NCS and The Challenge on 15th July when a letter of complaint was sent from Bill Ronald (CEO of The Challenge) to the DCMS Secretary of State.</p> answering member constituency Loughborough answering member printed Nicky Morgan question first answered 29/10/2019 13:09:47 answering member 4027 label Biography information for Baroness Morgan of Cotes
	tabling member	4128 label Biography information for Chuka Umunna

1150862

	registered interest
	date	21/10/2019
	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	National Citizen Service Trust
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, when the internal investigation into complaints regarding NCS Trust will be concluded; and if she will publish the findings of that investigation.
	tabling member constituency	Streatham
	tabling member printed	Chuka Umunna
	uin	2743
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2019 answer text <p>In line with standard complaint procedures, we are investigating the complaints raised by The Challenge against the NCS Trust and will address any findings as appropriate. The investigation is ongoing.</p><p> </p><p>DCMS will let both parties know the result of the investigation when it has concluded.</p> answering member constituency Loughborough answering member printed Nicky Morgan question first answered 29/10/2019 13:10:56 answering member 4027 label Biography information for Baroness Morgan of Cotes
	tabling member	4128 label Biography information for Chuka Umunna

1150863

	registered interest
	date	21/10/2019
	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	National Citizen Service Trust
	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 progress NCS Trust has made on addressing the governance issues raised in reports by the Public Accounts Committtee and National Audit Office.
	tabling member constituency	Streatham
	tabling member printed	Chuka Umunna
	uin	2744
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2019 answer text <p>In response to the governance issues raised in reports by the Public Accounts Committee and the National Audit Office, DCMS, together with the NCS Trust, have made the following progress:</p><p> </p><ul><li>The NCS Trust transitioned from a Community Interest Company to a Royal Charter body (RCB), in accordance with the NCS Act, on 01 December 2018. This made the NCS Trust an Arm’s Length Body (ALB) of DCMS. The ALB relationship means that the NCS Trust have a higher level of accountability to Parliament and the taxpayer, and ensures that Government have the power to appropriately scrutinise the NCS Trust as they see fit.</li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>As a Government ALB, the NCS Trust is now subject to the following Government scrutiny: the <strong>National Audit Office (NAO)</strong> audits the NCS annual report and accounts; NAO submit all accounts to the <strong>Committee of Public Accounts (PAC); </strong>The <strong>NCS Act</strong> requires the NCS Trust to lay Ministerially-approved annual business plans, annual reports and accounts in Parliament; The <strong>NCS Royal Charter</strong> states that a <strong>representative of the Government</strong> must sit on the NCS Trust’s Remuneration and Audit and Risk committees; The NCS Trust is subject to all <strong>Cabinet Office Spend Controls</strong></li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>As a Government ALB, the NCS Trust must abide by all principles laid out in <strong>HMT’s Managing Public Money</strong> document.</li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>As the Sponsor Department, DCMS exercises its governance scrutiny over the NCS Trust through: bi-annual Sponsor meetings between the DCMS Permanent Secretary, as Principal Accounting Officer, and the NCS Trust CEO and Board Chair; a high level of Senior Civil Servant involvement in the NCS Trust’s activities, including regular meetings between NCS Trust and DCMS Senior Sponsor and Sponsor Director; and through specialist-level meetings with officials from across DCMS.</li></ul> answering member constituency Loughborough answering member printed Nicky Morgan question first answered 29/10/2019 13:14:21 answering member 4027 label Biography information for Baroness Morgan of Cotes
	tabling member	4128 label Biography information for Chuka Umunna

1150864

	registered interest
	date	21/10/2019
	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 assessment she has made of the NCS Trust’s effectiveness in (a) delivering and (b) meeting the targets set for the National Citizen Service.
	tabling member constituency	Streatham
	tabling member printed	Chuka Umunna
	uin	2745
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2019 answer text <p>DCMS assesses the NCS Trust’s effectiveness in delivering the NCS programme against the three core objectives of: social cohesion, social mobility and social engagement - through consecutive, independent evaluations. Since 2013, these have demonstrated the positive impacts that National Citizen Service delivers to both its participants and their communities.</p><p> </p><p>DCMS assesses the NCS Trust’s effectiveness in meeting its Key Performance Indicator (KPI) targets on an ongoing basis and reviews these formally at the bi-annual Sponsor meetings between the DCMS Permanent Secretary and NCS Trust CEO and Board Chair. Performance against KPIs is published in the NCS Trust’s Annual Report, which is laid before Parliament.</p> answering member constituency Loughborough answering member printed Nicky Morgan question first answered 29/10/2019 13:16:28 answering member 4027 label Biography information for Baroness Morgan of Cotes
	tabling member	4128 label Biography information for Chuka Umunna

1150865

	registered interest
	date	21/10/2019
	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	National Citizen Service Trust: Complaints
	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 formal complaints have been made to her Department on the NCS Trust in the last 12 months.
	tabling member constituency	Streatham
	tabling member printed	Chuka Umunna
	uin	2746
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2019 answer text <p>In the last twelve months DCMS has received one formal complaint against the NCS Trust and one formal complaint regarding the terms of the new contracts issued by the NCS Trust.</p> answering member constituency Loughborough answering member printed Nicky Morgan question first answered 29/10/2019 13:19:56 answering member 4027 label Biography information for Baroness Morgan of Cotes
	tabling member	4128 label Biography information for Chuka Umunna

1151404

	registered interest
	date	22/10/2019
	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	National Citizen Service Trust
	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 the validity of the decision by the National Citizen Service Trust to withdraw NCS contracts from The Challenge; and what steps her Department and the Cabinet Office plan to take to help (a) resolve those issues that The Challenge reportedly raised with her Department on the National Citizen Service Trust before the withdrawal of its contracts and (b) maintain NCS (i) jobs and (ii) places.
	tabling member constituency	Streatham
	tabling member printed	Chuka Umunna
	uin	3656
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2019 answer text <p>The NCS Trust are the contracting authority for the NCS programme and have operational accountability for the NCS delivery chain. As such, procurement issues are a contractual matter between the NCS Trust and The Challenge, with DCMS being regularly informed. The procurement process for the re-commissioning of NCS contracts, carried out by the NCS Trust in 2019, was approved by both DCMS and HMT.</p><p> </p><p>In regards to the issues raised by The Challenge, NCS Trust is an arms-length body of DCMS and, in line with standard complaint procedures, DCMS is investigating the matters raised and will address any findings as appropriate.</p><p> </p><p>All NCS delivery regions have been successfully contracted for, to make sure there is minimal loss in NCS participation levels from 2020 onwards.</p> answering member constituency Loughborough answering member printed Nicky Morgan question first answered 30/10/2019 10:46:58 answering member 4027 label Biography information for Baroness Morgan of Cotes
	tabling member	4128 label Biography information for Chuka Umunna

1151959

	registered interest
	date	23/10/2019
	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: Living Wage
	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 staff in his Department are paid less than the London Living Wage; and what requirements his Department places on contractors to pay the London Living Wage to London-based staff.
	tabling member constituency	Greenwich and Woolwich
	tabling member printed	Matthew Pennycook
	uin	4418
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2019 answer text <p>No staff in the Department are paid at a rate below the London Living Wage.</p><p> </p><p>This government is committed to paying people a decent living wage, which is being addressed through the statutory National Living Wage. In April 2019, the National Living Wage increased to £8.21 per hour, handing a full-time worker a further £690 annual pay rise. By 2024 the National Living Wage will rise to £10.50 per hour, reaching 66% of median UK earnings. The scope will be expanded to everyone aged 21 and over and is expected to benefit over 4 million low paid workers.</p><p> </p><p>The Government will always award contracts on the basis of the best value for money for the taxpayer. DCMS standard terms and conditions ensures that any supplier shall comply with all applicable laws in supplying services to the department. We insist that contractors pay at least the National Minimum Wage.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Selby and Ainsty answering member printed Nigel Adams question first answered 28/10/2019 16:44:20 answering member 4057 label Biography information for Nigel Adams
	tabling member	4520 label Biography information for Matthew Pennycook

1156139

	registered interest
	date	24/10/2019
	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	Radio: Licensing
	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 has taken to bring forward the legislation required to secure the renewal of analogue FM and AM commercial radio licences simulcasting on DAB.
	tabling member constituency	Wantage
	tabling member printed	Mr Edward Vaizey
	uin	4964
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2019 answer text <p>The government supports a strong and vibrant radio sector and we fully recognise the important role that both national and local commercial stations broadcasting on analogue (FM and AM) frequencies and on DAB play in providing the widest possible choice for listeners.</p><p> </p><p>The first of the analogue commercial radio licences renewed by Ofcom under the Legislative Reform (Further Renewal of Radio Licences) Order 2015 will start to expire in early 2022. We plan to consult on the options of a further renewal of these licences as soon as possible.</p> answering member constituency Selby and Ainsty answering member printed Nigel Adams grouped question UIN 4965 question first answered 04/11/2019 14:53:12 answering member 4057 label Biography information for Nigel Adams
	tabling member	1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot

1156140

	registered interest
	date	24/10/2019
	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	Radio: Licensing
	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 plans her Department has to publish a timetable outlining the steps required to secure secondary legislation in order that analogue FM and AM commercial radio licences simulcasting on DAB will be uninterrupted before they are due to expire.
	tabling member constituency	Wantage
	tabling member printed	Mr Edward Vaizey
	uin	4965
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2019 answer text <p>The government supports a strong and vibrant radio sector and we fully recognise the important role that both national and local commercial stations broadcasting on analogue (FM and AM) frequencies and on DAB play in providing the widest possible choice for listeners.</p><p> </p><p>The first of the analogue commercial radio licences renewed by Ofcom under the Legislative Reform (Further Renewal of Radio Licences) Order 2015 will start to expire in early 2022. We plan to consult on the options of a further renewal of these licences as soon as possible.</p> answering member constituency Selby and Ainsty answering member printed Nigel Adams grouped question UIN 4964 question first answered 04/11/2019 14:53:12 answering member 4057 label Biography information for Nigel Adams
	tabling member	1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot