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1307450

	registered interest
	date	12/04/2021
	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	Theatres: Closures
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of (1) the number of (a) regional, and (b) local, theatres that have permanently closed, and (2) the number of local authority areas that have lost their only performance venue, since March 2020.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Eaton
	uin	HL14718
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2021 answer text <p>14% of theatres in the UK are directly operated by local authorities and many more are owned by and subsidised by local authorities.</p><p>The Theatres Trust has provided details of six theatre buildings where the operator has either withdrawn from their operating contract or gone into liquidation, leaving them without an operator since the start of the pandemic. These theatres are not necessarily closed permanently as efforts are progressing to identify new operators. DCMS does not collect any further data in this area.</p><p>In January, the Chancellor announced £4.6 billion in one-off top up grants for retail, hospitality and leisure businesses worth up to £9,000 per property to help businesses through to the Spring. This is in addition to £1.1 billion further discretionary grant funding for Local Authorities, and Local Restriction Support Grants worth up to £3,000 a month. So far, more than £1 billion has been allocated to thousands of organisations including theatres.</p><p>Theatres have also benefited from the Cultural Recovery Fund. To date, over £1.2 billion has been allocated from this fund, reaching over 5000 individual organisations and sites. Of this funding, awards with a value of over £183m were made to applicants whose main artform is ‘theatre’ in Round 1 recovery grant funding, and in Round 2 almost £60 million was awarded to help theatres survive and plan for reopening.</p><p>The Chancellor also announced in the 2021 Budget an additional £300 million to support theatres, museums and other cultural organisations in England through the Culture Recovery Fund. This extra funding, together with other cultural support such as funding for our national museums, means that our total support package for culture during the pandemic is now approaching £2bn.</p><p>The Government has also extended the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, and the continued reduction in VAT, among other measures.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Barran grouped question UIN HL14719 question first answered 19/04/2021 13:20:27 answering member 4703 label Biography information for Baroness Barran
	tabling member	4184 label Biography information for Baroness Eaton

1307452

	registered interest
	date	12/04/2021
	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	Theatres: Coronavirus
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of local councils’ ability to fund local and regional theatres following the COVID-19 pandemic.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Eaton
	uin	HL14719
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2021 answer text <p>14% of theatres in the UK are directly operated by local authorities and many more are owned by and subsidised by local authorities.</p><p>The Theatres Trust has provided details of six theatre buildings where the operator has either withdrawn from their operating contract or gone into liquidation, leaving them without an operator since the start of the pandemic. These theatres are not necessarily closed permanently as efforts are progressing to identify new operators. DCMS does not collect any further data in this area.</p><p>In January, the Chancellor announced £4.6 billion in one-off top up grants for retail, hospitality and leisure businesses worth up to £9,000 per property to help businesses through to the Spring. This is in addition to £1.1 billion further discretionary grant funding for Local Authorities, and Local Restriction Support Grants worth up to £3,000 a month. So far, more than £1 billion has been allocated to thousands of organisations including theatres.</p><p>Theatres have also benefited from the Cultural Recovery Fund. To date, over £1.2 billion has been allocated from this fund, reaching over 5000 individual organisations and sites. Of this funding, awards with a value of over £183m were made to applicants whose main artform is ‘theatre’ in Round 1 recovery grant funding, and in Round 2 almost £60 million was awarded to help theatres survive and plan for reopening.</p><p>The Chancellor also announced in the 2021 Budget an additional £300 million to support theatres, museums and other cultural organisations in England through the Culture Recovery Fund. This extra funding, together with other cultural support such as funding for our national museums, means that our total support package for culture during the pandemic is now approaching £2bn.</p><p>The Government has also extended the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, and the continued reduction in VAT, among other measures.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Barran grouped question UIN HL14718 question first answered 19/04/2021 13:20:27 answering member 4703 label Biography information for Baroness Barran
	tabling member	4184 label Biography information for Baroness Eaton

1221735

	registered interest
	date	07/07/2020
	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	Mobile Broadband
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the case for withdrawing support for 5G telecoms networks in favour of further research into 6G technology.
	tabling member printed	Viscount Waverley
	uin	HL6593
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2020 answer text <p>6G mobile technology is in the early research phase. The Government’s focus is on the UK becoming a world leader in 5G mobile technology, and for the majority of the UK population to have access to a 5G signal by 2027. To support this ambition, the Government is investing £200 million in a 5G Testbeds and Trials programme. The Mobile Network Operators are similarly focussed on rolling out commercial 5G coverage across the UK and, as a result, it is currently available in over 80 UK towns and cities.</p> answering member printed Baroness Barran question first answered 13/07/2020 16:40:46 answering member 4703 label Biography information for Baroness Barran
	tabling member	1744 label Biography information for Viscount Waverley

1149771

	registered interest
	date	14/10/2019
	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	Legislation: Internet
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many revisions to Legislation.gov.uk have yet to be made in relation to (1) primary, and (2) secondary legislation; and what are those revisions.
	tabling member printed	Lord Tyler
	uin	HL64
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2019 answer text <p>99.1% of Primary legislation on legislation.gov.uk is up to date. There are 45,000 amendments (to the nearest 1000) remaining. For secondary legislation, the current policy is to update documents made from January 2018 onwards, and there are approximately 3,200 amendments to be made. Full details of all of these amendments are publically available and can be found by using the Changes to Legislation search at www.legislation.gov.uk/changes.</p> answering member printed Baroness Barran question first answered 25/10/2019 10:19:26 answering member 4703 label Biography information for Baroness Barran
	tabling member	225 label Biography information for Lord Tyler

1490882

	registered interest
	date	19/07/2022
	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	Gambling: Video Games
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to increase monitoring of third-party websites that enable the trading of loot box items.
	tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of St Albans
	uin	HL1928
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/07/2022 answer text <p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/loot-boxes-in-video-games-call-for-evidence/outcome/government-response-to-the-call-for-evidence-on-loot-boxes-in-video-games" target="_blank">Her Majesty’s Government’s response</a> to the call for evidence sets out our findings on loot boxes, and our view on the next steps to address the issues it identified.</p><p>The call for evidence identified an association between the purchase of loot boxes and problem gambling. There are, however, a range of plausible explanations for this association, and research has not established whether a causal relationship exists.</p><p>Loot boxes vary in their design and deployment within games. Loot box rewards are usually confined for use within a given game and cannot be sold for real world currency, so are unlikely to meet the Gambling Act 2005's definition of a prize of ‘money or money’s worth’.</p><p>It is for the Gambling Commission to decide on a case-by-case basis whether to pursue enforcement action against any operations which it believes to be facilitating unlicensed gambling. It has shown that it can and will take action where the trading of items obtained from loot boxes brings loot box mechanics within the statutory definitions of gambling. Its recent uplift in fees has given the regulator new resources to monitor for and tackle unlicensed gambling.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay grouped question UIN HL1929 HL1930 question first answered 27/07/2022 14:38:08 answering member 4728 label Biography information for Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay
	tabling member	4308 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of St Albans

1490883

	registered interest
	date	19/07/2022
	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	Gambling: Video Games
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the link between loot boxes and problem gambling.
	tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of St Albans
	uin	HL1929
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/07/2022 answer text <p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/loot-boxes-in-video-games-call-for-evidence/outcome/government-response-to-the-call-for-evidence-on-loot-boxes-in-video-games" target="_blank">Her Majesty’s Government’s response</a> to the call for evidence sets out our findings on loot boxes, and our view on the next steps to address the issues it identified.</p><p>The call for evidence identified an association between the purchase of loot boxes and problem gambling. There are, however, a range of plausible explanations for this association, and research has not established whether a causal relationship exists.</p><p>Loot boxes vary in their design and deployment within games. Loot box rewards are usually confined for use within a given game and cannot be sold for real world currency, so are unlikely to meet the Gambling Act 2005's definition of a prize of ‘money or money’s worth’.</p><p>It is for the Gambling Commission to decide on a case-by-case basis whether to pursue enforcement action against any operations which it believes to be facilitating unlicensed gambling. It has shown that it can and will take action where the trading of items obtained from loot boxes brings loot box mechanics within the statutory definitions of gambling. Its recent uplift in fees has given the regulator new resources to monitor for and tackle unlicensed gambling.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay grouped question UIN HL1928 HL1930 question first answered 27/07/2022 14:38:08 answering member 4728 label Biography information for Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay
	tabling member	4308 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of St Albans

1490884

	registered interest
	date	19/07/2022
	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	Gambling: Video Games
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of whether loot boxes are (1) games of chance, and (2) capable of being exchanged for real money.
	tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of St Albans
	uin	HL1930
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/07/2022 answer text <p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/loot-boxes-in-video-games-call-for-evidence/outcome/government-response-to-the-call-for-evidence-on-loot-boxes-in-video-games" target="_blank">Her Majesty’s Government’s response</a> to the call for evidence sets out our findings on loot boxes, and our view on the next steps to address the issues it identified.</p><p>The call for evidence identified an association between the purchase of loot boxes and problem gambling. There are, however, a range of plausible explanations for this association, and research has not established whether a causal relationship exists.</p><p>Loot boxes vary in their design and deployment within games. Loot box rewards are usually confined for use within a given game and cannot be sold for real world currency, so are unlikely to meet the Gambling Act 2005's definition of a prize of ‘money or money’s worth’.</p><p>It is for the Gambling Commission to decide on a case-by-case basis whether to pursue enforcement action against any operations which it believes to be facilitating unlicensed gambling. It has shown that it can and will take action where the trading of items obtained from loot boxes brings loot box mechanics within the statutory definitions of gambling. Its recent uplift in fees has given the regulator new resources to monitor for and tackle unlicensed gambling.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay grouped question UIN HL1928 HL1929 question first answered 27/07/2022 14:38:08 answering member 4728 label Biography information for Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay
	tabling member	4308 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of St Albans

1156318

	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	Think Tanks: Finance
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to require think tanks based in the UK to be transparent about their funding sources.
	tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
	uin	HL402
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2019 answer text <p><br>It has not proved possible to respond to this question in the time available before Dissolution. Ministers will correspond directly with the Member.</p> answering member printed Baroness Barran question first answered 05/11/2019 14:28:58 answering member 4703 label Biography information for Baroness Barran
	tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark

1346567

	registered interest
	date	13/07/2021
	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	Cybercrime
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the number of people in the UK who were (1) successfully, and (2) unsuccessfully, phished in the last period for which records are available.
	tabling member printed	Lord Lucas
	uin	HL1970
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2021 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p>39% of all UK businesses identified at least one cyber security breach or attack in the last 12 months. Among these firms, the most common type of breach is related to phishing attacks (reported by around four-fifths of businesses (83%) which were attacked (CSBS 2021). This figure has risen from 72% in 2017 to 83% now. The Home Office is responsible for policy on cyber crime and fraud/scams.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Barran question first answered 19/07/2021 15:18:15 answering member 4703 label Biography information for Baroness Barran
	tabling member	1879 label Biography information for Lord Lucas

1305395

	registered interest
	date	23/03/2021
	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	Video on Demand
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the level of public concern about streaming services applying age ratings that may not reflect British Board of Film Classification ratings; and what steps they are taking to ensure that streaming platforms apply age ratings that (1) align with established ratings, and (2) maintain child protection.
	tabling member printed	Lord Clement-Jones
	uin	HL14491
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/03/2021 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p>The British Board of Film Classification’s (BBFC) age ratings are used by a number of video on demand providers and although adoption is voluntary, we welcome their use. On 1 December 2020, we were pleased to see Netflix become the first video on demand platform to achieve complete coverage of their content under the BBFC’s ratings.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The UK’s Audiovisual Media Services Regulations 2020, which transposed the revised EU Audiovisual Media Services Directive, were made and laid in Parliament on 30 September 2020. Following Parliament’s approval, the video sharing platform regime, for which Ofcom is the regulator, came into force on 1 November 2020. UK-established video sharing platforms must now take appropriate measures to protect the public, including minors, from illegal and harmful material.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Under this regime, video sharing platforms are not currently mandated to adopt BBFC ratings, nor is it expected that they will be mandated to do so. However, in order to comply with the regime, age assurance measures and measures such as age ratings and parental controls, may be adopted by video sharing platforms. Age assurance measures comprise a broad range of technical measures which can be used by a service to establish the age of their users. The BBFC is engaging actively with both Ofcom and video sharing platforms to share their expertise and discuss the applicability of content ratings on those platforms.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>In line with the government’s commitment to keep children safe online, the government is working at pace to prepare the Online Safety Bill, which will be ready this year.</p><p><strong><p><p></strong></p> answering member printed Baroness Barran question first answered 30/03/2021 09:43:34 answering member 4703 label Biography information for Baroness Barran
	tabling member	3396 label Biography information for Lord Clement-Jones