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1092258

	registered interest
	date	20/03/2019
	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	Sanitary Products: VAT
	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 applications for funding were made to the Tampon Tax Fund in each year since 2015.
	tabling member constituency	South Shields
	tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
	uin	234847
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2019 answer text <p>The Chancellor of the Exchequer announced the Tampon Tax Fund in the Autumn Statement 2015, granting funding to four organisations: Eve Appeal, SafeLives and Women’s Aid, and The Haven, and inviting applications for further grant funding.</p><p> </p><p>The number of applications made to the Tampon Tax Fund in each year are as follows:</p><p> </p><ul><li>2016 - 45 applications</li><li>2017 - 850 applications</li><li>2018 - 195 applications</li><li>2019 - 138 applications</li></ul><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 25/03/2019 15:48:52 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

1024752

	registered interest
	date	13/12/2018
	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	Charities: Complementary Medicine
	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 charities who promote the use of complementary and alternative medicine have been investigated by the Charity Commission in (a) 2016, (b) 2017 and (c) 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Croydon North
	tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
	uin	202110
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2018 answer text <p>The Charity Commission for England and Wales publishes annual transparency data, which includes analyses of its statutory inquiry, compliance and monitoring casework according to the information on the register of charities and submitted by charities in their annual returns.</p><p> </p><p>This includes a breakdown of casework statistics by classification, beneficiary group, income, and the charities’ age (years since registration) and can be seen here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/analysis-of-charities-subject-to-an-inquiry-or-compliance-case#inquiry-case-statistics:-2017-18" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/analysis-of-charities-subject-to-an-inquiry-or-compliance-case#inquiry-case-statistics:-2017-18</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The Charity Commission does not provide case statistics specifically on charities who promote the use of complementary and alternative medicine. The breakdown includes charities classified as being for ‘advancement of health / saving lives’, but the Commission does not disaggregate this classification any further, and some charities may use or promote CAM therapies as one part of a much wider range of activities.</p><p> </p><p>The Charity Commission has updated its approach to assessing the charitable status of organisations that promote complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) therapies. That approach is reflected in revised internal guidance and a report setting out the outcome of its review, was published last week, and can be seen here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/updated-approach-to-assessing-applications-from-organisations-promoting-complementary-and-alternative-therapies" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/news/updated-approach-to-assessing-applications-from-organisations-promoting-complementary-and-alternative-therapies</a> .</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 18/12/2018 17:52:20 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1037167

	registered interest
	date	07/01/2019
	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	Kick It Out
	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 meetings (a) he and (b) his Ministers have had with Kick It Out in the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Tooting
	tabling member printed	Dr Rosena Allin-Khan
	uin	206004
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2019 answer text <p>DCMS Ministers and officials meet a number of stakeholders in sport on a regular basis.</p><p> </p><p>‘Kick it Out’ has been a powerful voice working within football to tackle all forms of discrimination for the last 25 years. They were among the key attendees to a homophobia in sport roundtable event DCMS hosted in 2018, and DCMS and the Home Office partnered with the organisation and the Premier League to launch at that event new guidance to help football club safety officers and stewards deal with homophobic, biphobic and transphobic abuse, as well as a short film to raise awareness of gay and transsexual inclusion in football. The Kick it Out app remains the most-used reporting mechanism relating to incidents of discrimination within football.</p><p><strong><br> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 15/01/2019 16:08:53 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4573 label Biography information for Dr Rosena Allin-Khan

1091297

	registered interest
	date	19/03/2019
	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	Civil Society
	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 meetings the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Sport and Civil Society has had with (a) social enterprises, (b) charities and (c) voluntary sector umbrella bodies since her appointment in November 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Croydon North
	tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
	uin	234236
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2019 answer text <p>I meet regularly with representatives from social enterprises, charities and the voluntary sector. A full list of meetings is published quarterly on:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/ministers-transparency-publications" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/ministers-transparency-publications</a></p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 22/03/2019 11:26:17 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1082619

	registered interest
	date	06/03/2019
	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	Charities: Regulation
	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 notices were issued by the Fundraising Regulator against charities in the last year.
	tabling member constituency	Hendon
	tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
	uin	229160
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2019 answer text <p>The Fundraising Regulator is an independent, non-statutory body that regulates fundraising across the charitable sector in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. The Fundraising Regulator issued notices to 59 charities that had failed to deal with Fundraising Preference Service suppression requests. These charities have been referred to the Information Commissioner’s Office because of a potential data law breach.</p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 14/03/2019 14:10:08 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1090948

	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	Citizens' Assemblies
	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 of the eight bids selected by his Department's Innovation in Democracy programme will proceed.
	tabling member constituency	Croydon North
	tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
	uin	233511
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2019 answer text <p>The Innovation in Democracy Programme is an important part of the Civil Society Strategy announced last year. The successful pilot locations will be announced in due course.</p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 21/03/2019 11:29:40 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1091267

	registered interest
	date	19/03/2019
	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	Office for Civil Society
	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 officials in his Department are working for the Office for Civil Society.
	tabling member constituency	Croydon North
	tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
	uin	234219
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2019 answer text <p>As of 01/03/2019, 106 officials in the Department are working for the Office for Civil Society.</p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 22/03/2019 11:18:22 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1015136

	registered interest
	date	26/11/2018
	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	Voluntary Work: Young People
	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 people have participated in the National Citizen Service in each local authority area in each of the last three years.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	195559
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2018 answer text <p>See attached the National Citizen Service participation figures by Region and Local Authority for 2015, 2016 and 2017. We do not yet have consolidated data on 2018 participation figures, as the programme is still ongoing in some areas.</p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 04/12/2018 15:14:15 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies attachment 1 file name Participation by Region and LA 2015-17 - Turn Ups by Region and LA (2).pdf title Participation by Region and LA 2015-17
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1045613

	registered interest
	date	21/01/2019
	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	Swimming Pools: North West
	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 public swimming pools were closed in the North West in each of the last 10 years.
	tabling member constituency	Wallasey
	tabling member printed	Ms Angela Eagle
	uin	210529
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2019 answer text <p>Information on the number of publicly owned indoor and outdoor swimming pools that have closed and opened in each of the last 10 years is available via Sport England’s Active Places Power database which can be accessed here: <a href="https://www.activeplacespower.com/" target="_blank">https://www.activeplacespower.com/</a></p><p> </p><p>Between 2017 and 2021 Sport England is investing £12.16 million in Swim England to get more people swimming, and £30 million through its Strategic Facilities Fund to construct 24 new state of the art leisure facilities which include swimming pools. We have also set up an implementation group to explore the recommendations from the school swimming report published last year, including how we can work with local authorities and private operators to make better use of facilities.</p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 24/01/2019 15:52:30 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	491 label Biography information for Dame Angela Eagle

1064329

	registered interest
	date	20/02/2019
	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	Voluntary Work: Young People
	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 teenagers have (a) commenced and (b) graduated a National Citizenship Service programme in each of the last four years; and what the Government's target was for participation in that programme since 2011.
	tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
	tabling member printed	Cat Smith
	uin	223803
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2019 answer text <table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong> </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><td><p><strong>2018</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Govt target</strong><sup>1</sup></p></td><td><p>10,000</p></td><td><p>30,000</p></td><td><p>50,000</p></td><td><p>66,433</p></td><td><p>90,000</p></td><td><p>100,000</p></td><td><p>101,000</p></td><td><p>100,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Annual participants</strong></p></td><td><p>8,434</p></td><td><p>26,003</p></td><td><p>39,566</p></td><td><p>57,789</p></td><td><p>75,605</p></td><td><p>92,996</p></td><td><p>99,179</p></td><td><p>TBC<sup>2</sup></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Completed</strong></p></td><td><p>7,140</p></td><td><p>22,245</p></td><td><p>37,266</p></td><td><p>51,512</p></td><td><p>68,762</p></td><td><p>87,266</p></td><td><p>90,010</p></td><td><p>TBC<sup>2</sup></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><sup>1 </sup>Government targets are for participation, not completion.</p><p><sup>2</sup> Final participation figures for 2018 will be confirmed in due course.</p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 25/02/2019 16:12:07 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith