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1054793

	registered interest
	date	04/02/2019
	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 assessment he has made of the potential effect on the creative arts sector of the UK leaving the EU without a deal.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
	tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
	uin	216417
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2019 answer text <p>The creative and cultural 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>Delivering the deal negotiated with the EU remains the Government’s top priority, but as a responsible Government, we are accelerating no deal preparations to ensure the country is prepared for every eventuality.</p><p> </p><p>We are working closely with the creative and cultural sectors to understand the impacts of leaving the EU. The department will continue to build on this engagement to ensure the sectors thrive and flourish.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 11/02/2019 16:21:32 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

1059911

	registered interest
	date	12/02/2019
	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	BBC: Expenditure
	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 estimate his Department has made of the total spent by the BBC on rights to show third party material in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
	tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
	uin	220293
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2019 answer text <p>The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport does not hold this information. This information is held by the BBC.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 19/02/2019 16:34:21 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

1088454

	registered interest
	date	13/03/2019
	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	Creative Europe
	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 his Department has made of the financial benefit of the EU's Creative Europe programme to the UK creative arts industries.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
	tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
	uin	232060
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2019 answer text <p>Creative Europe is a competitive-bid EU fund that supports the cultural and audiovisual sectors.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The department has worked closely with the Creative Europe Desk UK to understand the financial benefit of the programme. Their recent report, The Impact of Creative Europe in the UK, concludes that the UK receives an average of €18.4 million a year and we understand that participants enjoy additional benefits such as networking and partnership opportunities.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The next generation of EU programmes are due to begin in 2021, and are currently under negotiation in the EU. The UK is exploring continued participation in EU programmes where it is in the EU and UK's mutual interest.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The Political Declaration Setting out the Framework for the Future Relationship between the EU and the UK sets out (at paragraph 11) that the UK and EU will establish general principles, terms and conditions for the UK’s participation in Union programmes and that these should include a fair and appropriate financial contribution. Any ongoing participation would need to be value for money for the UK taxpayer.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James grouped question UIN 232061 question first answered 20/03/2019 14:45:30 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

1088457

	registered interest
	date	13/03/2019
	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	Creative Europe
	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 his Department has made an estimate of the cost to the public purse of continuing to participate in the European Union's Creative Europe programme after the UK has left the EU.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
	tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
	uin	232061
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2019 answer text <p>Creative Europe is a competitive-bid EU fund that supports the cultural and audiovisual sectors.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The department has worked closely with the Creative Europe Desk UK to understand the financial benefit of the programme. Their recent report, The Impact of Creative Europe in the UK, concludes that the UK receives an average of €18.4 million a year and we understand that participants enjoy additional benefits such as networking and partnership opportunities.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The next generation of EU programmes are due to begin in 2021, and are currently under negotiation in the EU. The UK is exploring continued participation in EU programmes where it is in the EU and UK's mutual interest.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The Political Declaration Setting out the Framework for the Future Relationship between the EU and the UK sets out (at paragraph 11) that the UK and EU will establish general principles, terms and conditions for the UK’s participation in Union programmes and that these should include a fair and appropriate financial contribution. Any ongoing participation would need to be value for money for the UK taxpayer.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James grouped question UIN 232060 question first answered 20/03/2019 14:45:30 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

1110992

	registered interest
	date	10/04/2019
	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: Brexit
	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 his Department has deprioritised any Statutory Instruments in relation to the UK leaving the EU; and if he will publish the criteria his Department uses to deprioritise those Instruments.
	tabling member constituency	Walsall South
	tabling member printed	Valerie Vaz
	uin	243434
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2019 answer text <p>Our objective has always been to have a functioning statute book in place by Exit Day and to ensure that the most critical secondary legislation was made by this point.</p><p> </p><p>Each SI was carefully considered on a case-by-case basis to assess the impact of it not being in force on exit day, which informed scheduling decisions. These considerations and assessments have meant that the Government has been able to lay the critical secondary legislation required before we exit the EU.</p><p> </p><p>In the case of the Electronic Communications (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019, the department accepted the recommendation of the European Statutory Instruments Committee that the SI should use the affirmative procedure, notwithstanding that this would mean the SI would be unlikely to come into force on exit day (as defined, at that time, as 29 March 2019). This was because it was not essential that the provision made by the SI be in force from exit day, principally because it made very minor technical changes or revoked EU law which would be redundant if retained on the UK's statute book.</p><p> </p><p>The laying of EU Exit SIs allows Parliament to fulfil its essential scrutiny role. The exact nature of this scrutiny, and the steps required before an SI completes its passage, is dependent on the type of SI. The Government remains confident of passing the necessary legislation required to ensure a functioning statute book by exit day.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 23/04/2019 10:58:56 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	4076 label Biography information for Valerie Vaz

987778

	registered interest
	date	15/10/2018
	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	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport: Social Media
	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 much his Department has spent on promoted content on (a) Twitter, (b) Facebook and (c) Instagram in each month since June 2017.
	tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
	tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
	uin	179276
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/11/2018 answer text <p>The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) uses these platforms and other social media channels to communicate with specific target audiences on Government approved campaigns.</p><p> </p><p>DCMS has spent £5,078 since June 2017 which amounts to 0.00169% of the overall communications spend across Government this year.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 14/11/2018 17:58:32 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

1109427

	registered interest
	date	03/04/2019
	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	Broadband: Rural Areas
	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 improve rural broadband.
	tabling member constituency	Copeland
	tabling member printed	Trudy Harrison
	uin	240615
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2019 answer text <p>The Government’s policy is to ensure world-class broadband and mobile connectivity across the UK. We are currently implementing a number of policies to achieve this in rural areas.</p><p> </p><p>£1.8 billion of public money is being invested to support vital improvements in superfast broadband coverage across the UK, including in rural areas. In December 2017, we met our target to extend superfast coverage to 95% of UK premises, and we expect to reach at least 97% by 2020.</p><p> </p><p>DCMS has also put in place legislation to create a new Universal Service Obligation (USO) giving every household and business the right to request a broadband connection of at least 10 Megabits per second (Mbps) by 2020, to ensure access to decent connectivity. Ofcom are now responsible for implementing the USO. Further details, including how to apply are expected to be announced in the summer. In addition, the Better Broadband Scheme provides voucher funding to UK premises that do not have access to affordable broadband service delivering at least 2Mbps.</p><p> </p><p>DEFRA has allocated £75 million of grant funding from the Rural Development Programme for England, targeted at helping to connect businesses with superfast broadband in hard to reach rural areas.</p><p> </p><p>Looking forward, we want to provide world class digital connectivity that is gigabit-capable, reliable, long-lasting and widely available across the UK. We have set ambitious targets - for 15 million premises to be connected to full fibre by 2025, with nationwide coverage by 2033. In the Future Telecoms Infrastructure Review, we set out our long term national strategy to meet these targets, and to ensure that rural and remote areas are not left behind. Critical to delivering this ambition, is the “outside-in” approach set out in the review, which seeks to ensure that the harder to reach, mostly rural areas which are not viable for commercial investment - are addressed at the same pace as the rest of the country.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 11/04/2019 14:18:54 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison

1016241

	registered interest
	date	28/11/2018
	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	Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation: Public Appointments
	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 criteria appointees to the board of the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation were assessed against when candidates were considered for that role.
	tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
	tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
	uin	196781
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2018 answer text <p>The selection criteria for the Board was outlined within the expression of interest as published on the Cabinet Office's public appointments website. The candidates were asked to demonstrate high level experience of strategic leadership, communication and influencing skills and have a strong understanding of the Centre's role. As well as this - we were looking for relevant expertise across key areas which include; data science, business, ethics, social sciences, policy, law and regulation.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 03/12/2018 17:12:52 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin

1050323

	registered interest
	date	29/01/2019
	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	Social Media: Disinformation
	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 tackle the spread of disinformation on social media.
	tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
	tabling member printed	Tom Brake
	uin	908935
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2019 answer text <p>Disinformation will be one of the harms addressed in the forthcoming Online Harms White Paper, which will set out legislative and non-legislative measures to ensure platforms take adequate steps to protect their users. We are considering all options available to us.</p><p> </p><p>As the White Paper is finalised, we continue to have regular and robust dialogue with these companies on their progress to tackle this critical issue.</p><p> </p><p>We are also working across academia, civil society and internationally to expose and build resilience to disinformation. This includes a media literacy roundtable hosted by Ministers today.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 31/01/2019 11:59:39 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

1054781

	registered interest
	date	04/02/2019
	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	Social Media: Information Warfare
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 31 January 2019 to Question 908935 on Social Media: Information Warfare, when he plans to publish the White Paper on Online Harms White Paper.
	tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
	tabling member printed	Tom Brake
	uin	216109
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2019 answer text <p>The joint DCMS-Home Office Online Harms White Paper will be published in the coming weeks.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 19/02/2019 16:24:09 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake