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747505

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date	03/07/2017
answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Digital Technology: Urban Areas
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 support her Department is providing to cities to grow their digital media industries.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	2371
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2017 answer text <p>The creative industries, including the digital media industries, are the fastest growing part of the UK’s economy. The Government is committed to ensuring that the creative industries continue to thrive nationwide, including in York.</p><p> </p><p>This is why we are developing an ambitious Industrial Strategy that will drive growth across the country, bringing together local businesses as well as political and public sector leaders. We want to identify and support local specialisms and clusters of business. For many places, the creative industries will form a vital part of that thinking.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 11/07/2017 12:38:57 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

747557

registered interest
date	03/07/2017
answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Business: Data Protection
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 adequacy of resources available to the Information Commissioner's Office to support businesses in the implementation of changes to the General Data Protection Regulation.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
uin	2519
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2017 answer text <p>The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sports is committed to ensuring the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) is adequately resourced to fulfil its current functions under the Data Protection Act 1998 and its new responsibilities under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which includes guidance and support to businesses. The Government has recently introduced new charging provisions in the Digital Economy Act 2017 to ensure the ICO it is adequately resourced both during the transitional period and once the GDPR comes into effect in May 2018. The ICO has issued guidance for businesses on how to prepare for the GDPR. This is available at: https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/data-protection-reform/guidance-what-to-expect-and-when/.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 11/07/2017 12:37:13 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

747654

registered interest
date	03/07/2017
answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Internet
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 estimate she has made of the proportion of people aged (a) 18 to 29, (b) 30 to 44, (c) 45 to 59, (d) 60 to 79 and (e) over 80-years old who have internet access in each parliamentary constituency.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	2495
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2017 answer text <p>Whether a person has “internet access” can be measured in different ways, for example whether their household has a fixed broadband connection, or whether they own a smartphone. However, I am not aware of any estimates of the proportion of people who have internet access by age group in each parliamentary constituency.</p><p>Ofcom’s “Adults' media use and attitudes” reports also set out estimates of different types of “internet access”, including by age, and geographical location, but not at constituency level.</p><p> </p><p>Fixed broadband infrastructure is almost universally available across the UK, and we are bringing in a Universal Service Obligation to ensure everyone in the UK has the right to request an affordable connection to broadband of a minimum specified speed, from a designated provider, no matter where they live or work, up to a reasonable cost threshold.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 11/07/2017 12:03:10 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

747689

registered interest
date	03/07/2017
answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport: ICT
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 reduce the amount of manual processing on paper that it carries out and to make such processing digital.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	2591
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2017 answer text <p>The government is committed to providing services that are digital by default - reducing paper and manual processing, reducing cost and improving user satisfaction.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 11/07/2017 12:54:26 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

733117

registered interest
date	27/06/2017
answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Cybersecurity: Small Businesses
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the Answer of 17 October 2016 to Question 48089, what estimate she has made of the number of small and medium-sized businesses which have signed up to the Cyber Essentials programme (a) since that Answer and (b) in 2017.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	1540
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2017 answer text <p>As of the end of May 2017, the estimated number of Cyber Essentials certificates awarded to enterprises is 6,363, which for micro, small and medium enterprises amounts to:</p><ol><li>2,360 certificates since end September 2016; and</li><li>1,673 certificates from January to May 2017.</li></ol><p>Note that the methodology for recording these figures has changed, so these figures cannot be compared to historical data given. With reference to my previous answer, cited by the Honourable Member, the revised estimated total number of certificates awarded at the end of September 2016 stands at 3308, of which 2427 were awarded to micro, small and medium enterprises.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 11/07/2017 12:42:44 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah