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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

754752

	registered interest
	date	20/07/2017
	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	Health Services: 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 assessment she has made of the use of art-based activities in preventing and curing (a) physical and (b) mental ill health.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	6839
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2017 answer text <p>We believe that arts-based activity can have a significant role in improving health and wellbeing of citizens.</p><p> </p><p>The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport has previously commissioned research to develop the evidence base on the social and wellbeing impacts of cultural engagement, including on mental health conditions such as clinical depression. Research commissioned from the London School of Economics published in 2015 showed that people who engaged in the arts as an audience member were 5.4% more likely to report good health than non-participants.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 11/09/2017 16:57:42 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

754755

	registered interest
	date	20/07/2017
	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	Health Services: 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 assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of the recommendations and conclusions of the report of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Arts, Health and Wellbeing, Creative Health: The Arts for Health and Wellbeing, published on 19 July 2017.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	6840
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2017 answer text <p>We welcome the recent ‘Creative Health: The Arts for Health and Wellbeing’ report. The report made a specific recommendation for the Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) the Department of Health (DoH) and other relevant departments to develop and lead a cross-government strategy to support the delivery of health and wellbeing through arts and culture.</p><p> </p><p>We are committed to exploring the potential for such a strategy further with these departments, including DoH.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 11/09/2017 14:20:22 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

760064

	registered interest
	date	13/09/2017
	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	Broadband
	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 households received broadband speeds of less than 5mb in each constituency in each of the last two years.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	10423
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2017 answer text <p>The Department does not have data on premises that receive speeds of less than 5Mbps. The Department has deposited in the House of Commons Library results of its modelling and analysis of broadband coverage by constituency, including figures for sub 2 and sub 10 Mbps premises. Similar information, by constituency, is also available from Think Broadband (http://labs.thinkbroadband.com/local/).</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 09/10/2017 12:19:23 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	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