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1091032

registered interest
date	18/03/2019
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	Social Media: Employment Agencies
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 discussions he has had with social media platforms on removing scam modelling agencies from their listings.
tabling member constituency	Cheltenham
tabling member printed	Alex Chalk
uin	233625
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2019 answer text <p>Ministers and officials have regular meetings and discussions with social media companies on a range of issues. Details of ministerial meetings are published quarterly on the Gov.uk website.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 26/03/2019 10:48:53 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk

1078613

registered interest
date	27/02/2019
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	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, when he plans to announce the next steps for the Rural Gigabit Connnectivity programme.
tabling member constituency	Brigg and Goole
tabling member printed	Andrew Percy
uin	226648
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2019 answer text <p>The £200 million Rural Gigabit Connectivity programme, announced in Budget 2018, will trial a model for full fibre to public buildings - starting with primary schools - which will act as hubs in rural areas, alongside vouchers for funding gigabit-capable connectivity to homes and businesses across the UK.</p><p> </p><p>An announcement on the launch of the programme will take place in Spring 2019.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 07/03/2019 10:25:19 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	3939 label Biography information for Andrew Percy

1078617

registered interest
date	27/02/2019
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	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 progress his Department has made on its plans for an outside-in strategy to build full-fibre networks in rural areas.
tabling member constituency	Brigg and Goole
tabling member printed	Andrew Percy
uin	226649
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2019 answer text <p>Work has already started to build full fibre networks in rural areas, with up to £700 million allocated by Government for rollout up until the end of 2021.</p><p> </p><p>The Future Telecoms Infrastructure Review identified that around 10% of premises would not get full fibre commercially by 2033, largely in rural and remote areas. To reach the Government’s targets for nationwide full fibre coverage by 2033, these areas will require additional funding of around £3 billion to support investment, ensuring delivery in the final 10% occurs alongside commercial rollout.</p><p> </p><p>Funding already committed to these areas includes around £200 million from the BDUK Superfast programme, which is building on the 96% superfast coverage in the UK, and now rolling out full fibre connections.</p><p> </p><p>The Local Full Fibre Networks programme (LFFN) is designed to stimulate commercial investment in full fibre networks in both rural and urban locations across the whole of the UK. LFFN will have invested almost £300 million across the UK by the end of the programme in 2021.</p><p> </p><p>At Budget 2018, a further £200 million was allocated from the National Productivity Investment Fund, for the 2 year Rural Gigabit Connectivity programme starting in April 2019.</p><p> </p><p>Longer-term options for funding rural connectivity under the Outside-In approach will be determined as part of the forthcoming Spending Review.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James grouped question UIN 226650 question first answered 07/03/2019 10:33:55 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	3939 label Biography information for Andrew Percy

1078619

registered interest
date	27/02/2019
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	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 funding his Department has allocated to subsidise full-fibre networks in rural areas.
tabling member constituency	Brigg and Goole
tabling member printed	Andrew Percy
uin	226650
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2019 answer text <p>Work has already started to build full fibre networks in rural areas, with up to £700 million allocated by Government for rollout up until the end of 2021.</p><p> </p><p>The Future Telecoms Infrastructure Review identified that around 10% of premises would not get full fibre commercially by 2033, largely in rural and remote areas. To reach the Government’s targets for nationwide full fibre coverage by 2033, these areas will require additional funding of around £3 billion to support investment, ensuring delivery in the final 10% occurs alongside commercial rollout.</p><p> </p><p>Funding already committed to these areas includes around £200 million from the BDUK Superfast programme, which is building on the 96% superfast coverage in the UK, and now rolling out full fibre connections.</p><p> </p><p>The Local Full Fibre Networks programme (LFFN) is designed to stimulate commercial investment in full fibre networks in both rural and urban locations across the whole of the UK. LFFN will have invested almost £300 million across the UK by the end of the programme in 2021.</p><p> </p><p>At Budget 2018, a further £200 million was allocated from the National Productivity Investment Fund, for the 2 year Rural Gigabit Connectivity programme starting in April 2019.</p><p> </p><p>Longer-term options for funding rural connectivity under the Outside-In approach will be determined as part of the forthcoming Spending Review.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James grouped question UIN 226649 question first answered 07/03/2019 10:33:55 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	3939 label Biography information for Andrew Percy

1086587

registered interest
date	11/03/2019
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	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport: Procurement
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the guidance entitled, Procurement policy note 03/14: promoting tax compliance, how many suppliers were allocated contracts by his Department as a result of complying with (a) one and (b) more than one of the mitigating circumstances after failing the tax compliance questions.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
uin	230878
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2019 answer text <p>None of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport’s suppliers have failed to meet the tax compliance criteria in the Procurement Policy Note 03/14.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 14/03/2019 11:53:45 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1086586

registered interest
date	11/03/2019
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	Water Sports
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 he has made of the effect of current access rights to water on paddlesport participation in England.
tabling member constituency	Mansfield
tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
uin	230877
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2019 answer text <p>The Government’s sport strategy, Sporting Future, encourages and promotes outdoor recreation. Use of our waterways by all can be a creative and fun way to engage with the natural world and to stay healthy.</p><p> </p><p>Sport England is actively engaged with British Canoeing and the Canal and River Trust to get more people from all backgrounds active. In addition Sport England is providing £6.85m to British Canoeing for the period between 2017 to 2021.</p><p> </p><p>The ‘public rights of navigation’ issue around access to waterways is dealt with by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and they are currently working with British Canoeing to consider solutions to access disputes.</p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 19/03/2019 11:24:36 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley

1090918

registered interest
date	18/03/2019
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	Technology: New Businesses
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 steps the Government has taken to support tech start-ups in the Midlands.
tabling member constituency	Mansfield
tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
uin	233565
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2019 answer text <p>In the Autumn Budget 2017 we announced investment of £21 million to expand Tech City UK into a nationwide network – Tech Nation – aimed at accelerating the growth of the digital tech sector across the country. The funding will help Tech Nation support 40,000 entrepreneurs and up to 4,000 start-ups as they scale their businesses across the UK. This includes Birmingham, with Tech Nation highlighting that digital tech turnover for the Midlands came in at £7.7billion in 2017.</p><p> </p><p>DCMS investments in the wider business environment are creating and developing the conditions for digital businesses in the Midlands to start and grow. In September 2018, the Government announced the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) as the lead partner of the Urban Connected Communities (UCC) Project. This initiative will see the development of a large-scale 5G pilot across the region, with hubs in cities such as Birmingham, Coventry and Wolverhampton.</p><p> </p><p>The UCC project will design wireless infrastructure to deliver high quality connectivity and allow new 5G applications to be trialled in a number of sectors; allow industry to test different deployment models for 5G infrastructure and help inform the development of policy and regulation to support 5G deployment. Up to £50 million is currently available for the UCC, including £25 million of DCMS funding.</p><p> </p><p>DCMS are supporting the West Midlands Digital Skills Partnership which was launched in December last year. Bringing together some key regional stakeholders, supported by industry partners and Government, the West Midlands are exploring innovative ways in which to improve the talent pipeline in the region.</p><p> </p><p>Government further recognises that supporting digital businesses in the Midlands requires us to encourage innovation and adoption of digital tech in other sectors. The emerging West Midlands Industrial Strategy identifies exciting opportunities around data-driven health diagnostics, which will provide opportunities to test and commercialise new technologies, among wider opportunities for industrial digitisation applicable to local economic strengths. My officials also look forward to working with partners in Leicester &amp; Leicestershire and Nottingham &amp; Nottinghamshire in the near future, as they open discussion with Government around their Local Industrial Strategies.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 25/03/2019 15:25:38 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley

1088728

registered interest
date	14/03/2019
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	Lotteries: Charities
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 he has made of the potential merits of unrestricted funding grants delivered to charities by charity lotteries.
tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
tabling member printed	Ben Lake
uin	232632
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2019 answer text <p>Funding from lotteries represents a relatively small proportion of overall charity sector income. However, for some charities, lottery funding can be a vital source of income. In 2017/18 good cause returns from the National Lottery were £1.6 billion and large society lotteries raised £296 million for good causes. Many charities are licensed to run their own lotteries as a fundraising tool, which directly supports their charitable initiatives.</p><p><br> Society Lotteries usually provide unrestricted funding which can be particularly beneficial for charities as it enables the charity to determine how to use the funding to best deliver its aims and support its beneficiaries. Society lotteries and the National Lottery complement each other as they have different strategic priorities and support a range of different charities within the sector.</p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies grouped question UIN 232633 232634 question first answered 21/03/2019 14:25:54 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake

1088729

registered interest
date	14/03/2019
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	Lotteries: Charities
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 he has made of the complementary benefits of funding from both charity lotteries and the National Lottery to charities.
tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
tabling member printed	Ben Lake
uin	232633
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2019 answer text <p>Funding from lotteries represents a relatively small proportion of overall charity sector income. However, for some charities, lottery funding can be a vital source of income. In 2017/18 good cause returns from the National Lottery were £1.6 billion and large society lotteries raised £296 million for good causes. Many charities are licensed to run their own lotteries as a fundraising tool, which directly supports their charitable initiatives.</p><p><br> Society Lotteries usually provide unrestricted funding which can be particularly beneficial for charities as it enables the charity to determine how to use the funding to best deliver its aims and support its beneficiaries. Society lotteries and the National Lottery complement each other as they have different strategic priorities and support a range of different charities within the sector.</p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies grouped question UIN 232632 232634 question first answered 21/03/2019 14:25:54 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake

1088730

registered interest
date	14/03/2019
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	Lotteries: Charities
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 he has made of the benefits delivered to local charities by charity lotteries.
tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
tabling member printed	Ben Lake
uin	232634
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2019 answer text <p>Funding from lotteries represents a relatively small proportion of overall charity sector income. However, for some charities, lottery funding can be a vital source of income. In 2017/18 good cause returns from the National Lottery were £1.6 billion and large society lotteries raised £296 million for good causes. Many charities are licensed to run their own lotteries as a fundraising tool, which directly supports their charitable initiatives.</p><p><br> Society Lotteries usually provide unrestricted funding which can be particularly beneficial for charities as it enables the charity to determine how to use the funding to best deliver its aims and support its beneficiaries. Society lotteries and the National Lottery complement each other as they have different strategic priorities and support a range of different charities within the sector.</p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies grouped question UIN 232632 232633 question first answered 21/03/2019 14:25:54 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake