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1008447

	registered interest
	date	16/11/2018
	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	Loneliness
	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 Government's press release entitled PM launches Government’s first loneliness strategy, published on 15 October 2018, whether his Department has conducted a loneliness policy test on Budget 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	192092
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2018 answer text <p>There was no requirement on HM Treasury to consider loneliness in developing Budget 2018. The cross-government loneliness team will work with HM Treasury, as with other departments, to explore how social relationships can be considered across their policy-making in future, as recently set out in the first loneliness strategy for England, ‘A connected society’.</p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 21/11/2018 18:41:35 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

786937

	registered interest
	date	10/11/2017
	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: Working Conditions
	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 is taking to improve the (a) physical and (b) mental wellbeing of staff employed in her Department.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	112404
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2017 answer text <p>The Civil Service has set out five priorities for the health and wellbeing of its employees, including priorities in relation to physical and mental wellbeing. In addition, the Civil Service has also committed to being a leading employer on mental health support, in line with the recommendations set out in the recently published independent review Thriving At Work. We will benchmark our department to see how the support we provide employees currently measures up to the recommendations set out in the October 2017 Farmer/Stevenson review. The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has also recently been awarded level 3 of the Disability Confident Scheme.</p><p> </p><p>In DCMS dedicated Health and Well-being help is available on the intranet. This covers the Civil Service priority areas and includes information on how to cope with stress with frequent articles and blogs on mental health, musculoskeletal issues and embracing a healthy lifestyle.</p><p> </p><p>In addition the Department provides information and support to help all employees to stay well and manage their health conditions at work. This support includes a variety of programmes like occupational health support, counselling support through the Employee Assistance Programme, HR Casework team and the Civil Service Workplace Adjustments Service which helps with adjustments for employees suffering from a mental health or physical condition. Line Managers also have access to a Stress Assessment and Reduction Plan toolkit for identifying and managing stress when required.</p><p> </p><p>The Department is a signatory to the Time to Change Pledge and raises awareness of the support available through national campaigns such as the “Time to Talk” day and the Mental Health Awareness Week.</p><p> </p><p>The Department supports the Employee Mental Health Network with a Senior Civil Servant Champion and has introduced Mental Health First Aiders and Champions who are trained to provide support and guide people towards appropriate professional help. The Network has had the visible support of the Department’s Permanent Secretary and Ministers.</p><p> </p><p>The Civil Service Unconscious Bias training is mandatory for all employees and the Department is working with line managers to support individuals with mental health conditions, part of which is encouraging line managers to undertake the Mental Health Awareness eLearning available on the Civil Service Learning Portal.</p><p> </p><p>The department participates in the Civil Service Workplace Challenges which promotes physical activities such as The Active Lunch Challenge, the Walking Challenge and the Physical Activity Week. We also promote national campaigns such as the One You campaign.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 20/11/2017 13:15:22 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

806066

	registered interest
	date	13/12/2017
	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: Written Questions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, (a) how many and (b) what proportion of her Department's Answers to Written Parliamentary Questions have advised that the requested information was not available on the grounds of disproportionate cost associated with data collection and collation in the current Session.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	119164
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2017 answer text <p>As of 19th December, DCMS has answered 1,062 Written Parliamentary Questions, of which 12 or 1.1% were answered in such a manner. Pretty good I think.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 21/12/2017 17:25:06 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

809696

	registered interest
	date	19/12/2017
	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: Written Questions
	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 and what proportion of her Department's Answers to Written Parliamentary Questions in the 2017-18 Session to date have referred to the information requested not being (a) collected or (b) collated centrally.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	120316
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2017 answer text <p>As of 19th December, DCMS has answered 1,062 Written Parliamentary Questions, of which 19 or 1.8% were answered in such a manner. Also pretty low.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 21/12/2017 17:26:37 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

809833

	registered interest
	date	19/12/2017
	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 Mobility
	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 improve social mobility in each of the last seven years.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	120453
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2018 answer text <p>Our ​internal ​efforts on improving social mobility include ​the appointment of a senior social mobility champion, participation in the Social Mobility Foundation Employer Index and programmes such as the Summer Diversity Internship Programme. We are ​also ​working ​closely ​with the Cabinet Office on ​improving ​social mobility through the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy which was launched ​in October​ 2017.</p><p> </p><p>DCMS has ​also ​made significant investments into programmes that help young people develop skills outside school, and participate in their communities. This includes £80 million, invested in partnership with the Big Lottery Fund, into the Youth Investment and #iwill Funds; continuing to back the growth of the National Citizen Service; and securing £90 million of dormant accounts money to support disadvantaged and disengaged young people into employment.</p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 31/01/2018 10:19:25 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

830085

	registered interest
	date	24/01/2018
	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: Directors
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, who the the lead non-executive director and other non-executive director board members are in his Department.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	124781
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2018 answer text <p>The information requested can found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-digital-culture-media-sport.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 29/01/2018 14:18:46 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

847062

	registered interest
	date	22/02/2018
	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: Fairtrade Initiative
	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 proportion of his Department's spend on day-to-day goods has comprised fair trade products in each of the last eight years.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	129236
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2018 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally and could ony be obtained at a disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 02/03/2018 09:54:59 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

847101

	registered interest
	date	22/02/2018
	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: Contracts
	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 organisations his Department has outsourced functions to since 2011.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	129275
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2018 answer text <p>DCMS has not outsourced functions since 2011.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 02/03/2018 09:46:55 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

847121

	registered interest
	date	22/02/2018
	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: Trade Unions
	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 percentage of workers employed directly by his Department belonged to a trade union in each of the last five years for which data is available.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	129295
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2018 answer text <p>The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has limited information, presented in the table below. However information is not held on those employees who chose to pay their trade union subscriptions themselves directly through direct debit to their trade union. Therefore an accurate overall percentage figure cannot be given, as it would not include these employees.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>2013</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2017</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>DCMS Staff</p></td><td><p>400</p></td><td><p>394</p></td><td><p>475</p></td><td><p>527</p></td><td><p>656</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Percentage belonging to a trade union</p></td><td><p>29%</p></td><td><p>37%</p></td><td><p>28%</p></td><td><p>20%</p></td><td><p>13%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>This data is based on the position at 31st March in each of the years given and the number of staff who paid their trade union subscriptions through the payroll. This includes permanent staff, those on fixed-term contracts, those on paid loan/secondment in/out of DCMS and those on paid maternity leave.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 02/03/2018 09:56:25 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

847147

	registered interest
	date	22/02/2018
	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: Zero Hours Contracts
	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 (a) full-time staff, (b) part-time staff, (c) temporary staff and (d) any other staff were directly employed on zero-hours contracts by his Department in each of the last eight years.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	129321
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2018 answer text <p>The number of (a) full-time staff, (b) part-time staff, (c) temporary staff, and (d) any other staff directly employed on zero-hours contracts is given below:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>2010</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2011</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2017</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(a) Full-time</p></td><td><p>440</p></td><td><p>400</p></td><td><p>420</p></td><td><p>360</p></td><td><p>346</p></td><td><p>421</p></td><td><p>483</p></td><td><p>595</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(b) Part-time</p></td><td><p>50</p></td><td><p>50</p></td><td><p>40</p></td><td><p>40</p></td><td><p>48</p></td><td><p>54</p></td><td><p>44</p></td><td><p>61</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(c) Temporary staff</p></td><td><p>*</p></td><td><p>*</p></td><td><p>*</p></td><td><p>35</p></td><td><p>51</p></td><td><p>68</p></td><td><p>54</p></td><td><p>54</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(d) Zero-hour contracts</p></td><td><p>✝</p></td><td><p>✝</p></td><td><p>✝</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>This data is based on the position at 31st March in each of the years given. The full-time and part-time figures include Civil Servants on DCMS’ payroll. This includes permanent staff, those on fixed-term contracts, those on paid loan/secondment in/out of DCMS and those on paid maternity leave.</p><p> </p><p>Exact headcount is given for 2014 to 2017 based on data DCMS currently holds. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10 for full-time and part-time staff for 2010 to 2013 as this information is taken from data published in the Annual Civil Service Employment Survey. This data source can be found here:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/query/construct/summary.asp?mode=construct&amp;version=0&amp;dataset=129" target="_blank">https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/query/construct/summary.asp?mode=construct&amp;version=0&amp;dataset=129</a></p><p> </p><p>Data is based on the position at 31st March in each year so 2018 data is not yet available. This data will be uploaded to this website later in 2018.</p><p> </p><p>* Information on temporary staff is taken from the Workforce Management Information which DCMS produces on a monthly basis and publishes annually. This information was not produced before 2013.</p><p> </p><p>✝ Information on zero-hour contracts is not available before 2013.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 02/03/2018 09:44:04 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane