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931383

registered interest
date	26/06/2018
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	Children: Exercise
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 21 June 2018 to Question 153820 on Children: Obesity, whether he has made an estimate of the number of children completing 30 minutes of vigorous physical activity supported by parents and carers outside of school time.
tabling member constituency	North Swindon
tabling member printed	Justin Tomlinson
uin	157735
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2018 answer text <p>The Sporting Future strategy set out a new approach to sport and physical activity, with a clear focus on engaging the least active.</p><p> </p><p>The cross-government Active Lives (Children and Young People) survey was launched in schools in September 2017 in order to capture data on how children are engaging in sport and physical activity. The first results will be published in December 2018.</p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 02/07/2018 13:03:24 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
tabling member	4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson

931409

registered interest
date	26/06/2018
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 Organisations
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 he plans to renew the Compact between the Government and the voluntary sector.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
uin	157757
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2018 answer text <p>The Compact continues to be an important guide for effective engagement and collaboration between public bodies and voluntary, charitable and social enterprise sector organisations. The Government's Civil Society Strategy, due to be published later this year, will consider practical ways of improving engagement and partnerships across traditional sector boundaries.</p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 02/07/2018 15:37:22 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

931473

registered interest
date	26/06/2018
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	Football: Sportsgrounds
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 the timetable is for the review into safe standing in football stadia.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Dr Rosena Allin-Khan
uin	157836
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2018 answer text <p>I recently announced my intention to commission an external analysis of evidence relating to the all-seater policy. The Department will be going out to tender for this piece of work shortly, and our aim is that the initial analysis work will be completed by the end of the year. As well as looking at what evidence already exists and assessing its reliability, that work will look to identify any important gaps in data, including injury data, and recommend the best ways of filling them.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 02/07/2018 13:01:01 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
tabling member	4573 label Biography information for Dr Rosena Allin-Khan

931547

registered interest
date	26/06/2018
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	Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012
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 speech made by the Minister for the Cabinet Office of 25 June 2018 to Reform, when he plans to bring forward legislative proposals to extend the Public Services (Social Value) Act 2013 to ensure that procurements evaluate social value; and whether he plans to consult charities and social enterprises before bringing forward such proposals.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
uin	157758
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2018 answer text <p>The government remains committed to the Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012 and believes it can contribute to creating a diverse public services supply market and harness wider benefits for our communities.</p><p>On 25 June, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, David Lidington announced our intention to lead by example by extending application of the Act across central government. Doing so will not require legislation. Officials from the Cabinet Office, Crown Commercial Service and Office for Civil Society, DCMS will work together to implement this policy with departments and explore further opportunities for the Act.</p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 02/07/2018 15:39:31 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

931103

registered interest
date	25/06/2018
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	Sports: 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, what steps he is taking to work with partners to ensure that young people have access to affordable sports facilities in their local area.
tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
uin	157253
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2018 answer text <p>Government's Sporting Future strategy, published in December 2015, emphasised the importance of all young people, regardless of background or ability, being healthy, active and having a good experience of sport and physical activity. It also highlighted the significant role that facilities play in encouraging people of all ages and backgrounds to get more active.</p><p> </p><p>Sport England's Strategic Facilities Fund is making up to £40m of National Lottery funding available over 2017-21 to invest in strategic, solicited facilities projects that support and encourage people, including young people, to get active. Since 2016, the Strategic Facilities Fund has invested £27.5 million to support the construction of 23 new state of the art health and leisure facilities across England.</p><p> </p><p>Sport England's Community Asset Fund is making up to £15m available per year over 2017-21 to support communities to improve and invest in the spaces in their communities that will support people to get more active, including children and young people.</p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 28/06/2018 15:04:05 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury

929372

registered interest
date	22/06/2018
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	Sports: Coventry
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 support sports facilities in Coventry.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	156604
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2018 answer text <p>Sport England, the government's arm's length body responsible for supporting grassroots sport, is making a series of investments in sports facilities in Coventry.</p><p> </p><p>Since 2013, it has invested £6,824,538 of Exchequer and National Lottery funding in the Coventry local authority area in sports facilities and projects to get more people active.</p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 27/06/2018 11:00:20 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

928752

registered interest
date	21/06/2018
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	Sports: Disability
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 he has made available for disabled (a) rugby, (b) basketball and (c) other sports to help them attain international recognition and assist in their hosting international matches.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	156425
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2018 answer text <p>UK Sport, an Arm's Length Body of DCMS, works with National Governing Bodies (NGBs) and other partners to help them build strong and positive relationships with their respective International Federations (IFs) and other national and international sporting bodies.</p><p> </p><p>To do this, investment is prioritised to support International Relations strategies for those sports that receive UK Sport World Class Programme funding and/or have an agreed Major Events hosting target. UK Sport also provides limited investment to those sports which fall just outside of its World Class Programme funding. These include fencing, badminton, goalball, weightlifting and wheelchair rugby.</p><p> </p><p>As a result, GB Wheelchair Rugby are in receipt of UK Sport investment to support their International Relations strategy over the course of the Tokyo cycle (2017-21). This investment amounts to up to £50,000 over the four years.</p><p> </p><p>Since the London 2012 Games, a total of £1.5m in grant awards were made by UK Sport into the successful delivery of 16 non-able bodied sports events between 2013 and 2017. Of this, £340,000 was invested into the European Wheelchair Basketball Championships and £57,000 into the BT World Wheelchair Rugby Challenge which both took place in 2015.</p><p> </p><p>This year, the UK will be hosting the World Boccia Championships in Liverpool and £390,000 is being invested by UK Sport into that event.</p><p> </p><p>Next year, the UK will be hosting the World Wheelchair Curling Championships in Stirling and £56,000 is being invested by UK Sport into that event.</p><p> </p><p>The UK is also currently bidding to host the Para Cycling C1 International event in Manchester in January next year.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 28/06/2018 15:06:05 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

928828

registered interest
date	21/06/2018
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
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 his Department plans to publish its response to the civil society strategy consultation, which closed on 22 May 2018.
tabling member constituency	Shrewsbury and Atcham
tabling member printed	Daniel Kawczynski
uin	156398
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2018 answer text <p>The engagement exercise for the Civil Society Strategy closed on Tuesday 22 May 2018. We are grateful to all that took part. We are now busy drafting the Civil Society Strategy in collaboration with departments across government and are aiming to publish later this Summer.</p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 28/06/2018 15:08:40 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
tabling member	1566 label Biography information for Daniel Kawczynski

927814

registered interest
date	20/06/2018
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: Coventry
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 of the £20 million investment to help tackle loneliness will be allocated to charities and community groups in Coventry.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	155679
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2018 answer text <p>Loneliness does not discriminate and can affect any of us, so it is important that we take action to help people establish and maintain connections in their communities.</p><p> </p><p>Of the £20 million investment to tackle loneliness:</p><p> </p><ul><li>The £11m Building Connections Fund will support a broad range of different activities and will be open to applications from all areas of England, including Coventry. We will share details of successful applicants after the assessment has taken place and aim to fund projects across the whole of England.</li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>The £5m from People’s Postcode Lottery will add additional funding to existing grants across Great Britain.</li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>The £4m of new grants from Health Lotteries will fund projects in our most deprived communities, across most regions in England.</li></ul> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 25/06/2018 15:34:48 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

927819

registered interest
date	20/06/2018
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	Gaming Machines
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 technological changes bookmakers would need to undertake to ensure that maximum stakes on Fixed Odds Betting Terminals are to be reduced from £100 to £2.
tabling member constituency	Midlothian
tabling member printed	Danielle Rowley
uin	155919
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2018 answer text <p>As the Government's response to the <em>Consultation on proposals for changes to Gaming Machines and Social Responsibility Measures </em>set out on 17th May, a key priority for implementation will be engaging with the gambling industry to ensure that there is an appropriate lead-in period to enable technological changes needed for the reduction in maximum stake on Fixed Odds Betting Terminals to be completed.</p><p>​</p><p>Alongside the response to the consultation, the Government also published an Impact Assessment (IA) which set out the costs and benefits associated with this policy. The IA can be found at:<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/consultation-on-proposals-for-changes-to-gaming-machines-and-social-responsibility-measures" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/consultation-on-proposals-for-changes-to-gaming-machines-and-social-responsibility-measures</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch grouped question UIN 155920 question first answered 28/06/2018 15:10:54 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
tabling member	4628 label Biography information for Danielle Rowley