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1133845

registered interest
date	21/06/2019
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	Television Licences: Older 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 the Government plans to take to help protect vulnerable older people from prosecution for unpaid TV licences.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	267716
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2019 answer text <p>The BBC is responsible for the collection and enforcement of the licence fee, not government.</p><p> </p><p>The BBC set out in its decision document on the future of the over 75 licence fee concession that enforcement action would be a last resort, and that it will consider ‘people’s vulnerability'.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 28/06/2019 13:42:56 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

1122173

registered interest
date	18/04/2019
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: Urban Areas
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what plans his Department has to support the delivery of a full-fibre roll-out in towns and cities throughout the UK.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	245631
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2019 answer text <p>The Government has ambitious targets for world class digital infrastructure with 15 million premises connected to full fibre by 2025, and national coverage by 2033. The Future Telecoms Infrastructure Review, published in July 2018, set out the overall strategy for how to achieve these targets.</p><p> </p><p>The Review concluded the most effective way to deliver these ambitions is to promote competition between fibre networks where possible intervene where necessary. The Review’s analysis suggests that commercial investment will be viable for up to 90% of premises in the UK. To ensure deployment is as cheap and easy as possible, the Barrier Busting Task Force has been established to remove issues like wayleaves, planning and streetworks.</p><p> </p><p>The Local Full Fibre Networks programme, launched in November 2017, will have invested almost £300 million to stimulate commercial full fibre investment across the UK by the end of the programme in 2021, while</p><p>Government is also supporting competitive commercial investment through the £400 million Digital Infrastructure Investment Fund, which is expected to unlock over £1 billion investment in full fibre.</p><p> </p><p>Industry have continued to respond with commitments to full fibre rollout with CityFibre, Hyperoptic and Openreach all making significant announcements to deploy full fibre in a number of towns and cities across the UK as well as new entrants also entering the market. We are now seeing full fibre coverage increase at pace with 7% of premises in the UK now able to connect to full fibre, up from 4% around 12 months ago.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 30/04/2019 17:33:34 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

765852

registered interest
date	06/10/2017
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Adoption: Self-employed
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of extending statutory adoption leave to the self-employed.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	105717
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2017 answer text <p>In contrast to employees, self-employed adopters do not need a statutory entitlement to adoption leave as they are able to decide themselves how much time off work they take and when.</p><p>Local Authorities may make a payment equivalent to Maternity Allowance in cases where adopters do not qualify for family related statutory pay because they are self-employed. This payment is discretionary and means-tested to ensure that resources are targeted at those adopters who need it most and is part of a package of post-adoption support.</p><p>Since 2010, we have taken significant steps to equalise the state benefits provided to the employed and self-employed, including giving the self-employed access to the full rate of the new State Pension for the first time, (worth up to £1,800/year more).</p><p>We continue to keep all differences in treatment between self-employed and employed people under review.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 16/10/2017 16:18:29 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

714250

registered interest
date	27/03/2017
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Parental Leave: Grandparents
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what plans he has to open a consultation on parental leave for grandparents.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	69211
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/03/2017 answer text <p>The Government is exploring options for supporting working families and we will bring forward proposals in due course.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 29/03/2017 13:27:46 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

713838

registered interest
date	24/03/2017
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Carers: Leave
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will consider making provision for grandparents and other carers to be entitled to up to 10 days statutory leave to provide emergency care for a grandchild or other dependant.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	69070
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/03/2017 answer text <p>Workers in the UK are entitled to a minimum of 28 days paid annual leave if they work full time and a proportionate amount if they work part time. Grandparents may also be able exercise the Right to Time Off for Dependents which allows employees to take a reasonable amount of time off work to deal with certain unexpected or sudden emergencies involving a dependant and to put care arrangements in place.</p><p>The Government is developing a new national Carers Strategy, which will consider the range of issues faced by people who provide unpaid care for a relative, friend or someone close to them.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 29/03/2017 09:10:43 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman