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691765

registered interest
date	20/02/2017
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what the timetable is for updates to the Cyber Essentials scheme.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	64527
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2017 answer text <p>As part of the regular reviews of all cyber security standards, the Government considers whether Cyber Essentials needs to be updated.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 28/02/2017 14:40:10 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

691816

registered interest
date	20/02/2017
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 Culture, Media and Sport: Uber
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much her Department has spent on (a) Uber for Business and (b) other Uber transactions since 28 October 2016.
tabling member constituency	Hartlepool
tabling member printed	Mr Iain Wright
uin	64370
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2017 answer text <p>My department has made no direct payments to Uber for business travel or otherwise.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 22/03/2017 12:01:47 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	1478 label Biography information for Mr Iain Wright

691817

registered interest
date	20/02/2017
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 Culture, Media and Sport: Contracts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what the total (a) number and (b) value of Government contracts that have been contracted out by her Department was in each year since 2010; what the value of pro bono costs was in each such year; and what estimate she has made of the number of work days contracted out in each such year.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	64390
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2017 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 08/03/2017 11:11:17 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

691818

registered interest
date	20/02/2017
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	Broadband: Infrastructure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much information her Department holds on the number of metres of last-mile copper line laid or refurbished over the last five years which was funded from the public purse.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	64348
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2017 answer text <p>The Department does not hold this information.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 23/02/2017 15:27:41 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

691820

registered interest
date	20/02/2017
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	Mobile Phones: Radio Frequencies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what her plans are to ensure that there is sufficient competition in the mobile phone industry after the sale of mobile phone spectrum.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	64457
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2017 answer text <p>The UK has a competitive mobile communications market and the independent regulator Ofcom is responsible for promoting competition to further the interests of consumers, both before and after the forthcoming spectrum auction.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 23/02/2017 12:48:46 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

691821

registered interest
date	20/02/2017
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	Broadband: Infrastructure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate she has made of the number of metres of copper line laid by British Telecom in 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	64364
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2017 answer text <p>None.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 23/02/2017 15:28:09 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

691822

registered interest
date	20/02/2017
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 Culture, Media and Sport: Equality
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many equality impact assessments have been carried out in the last three years on public service reforms which impact on (a) departmental staff and (b) members of the public; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow South West
tabling member printed	Chris Stephens
uin	64441
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2017 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">Through the Government’s National Cyber Security Programme, my Department is delivering an ambitious set of initiatives to support the growth of and investment in cyber security companies across the United Kingdom, including those from Northern Ireland. In particular, we provide opportunities for early stage companies from across the UK to be represented at selected events where they can showcase their technologies and expertise in order to secure investment. We are also funding the delivery of two cyber innovation centres which are open to companies from across the UK.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">We are also funding the delivery of ‘Hut Zero’, an accelerator programme for individuals with cyber security ideas , and ‘Cyber 101’ business training ‘bootcamps’ for early stage companies, some of which are being delivered in Northern Ireland. I am particularly delighted that Queen’s University Belfast’s Centre for Secure Information Technology is playing a pivotal role in the delivery of both of those initiatives.</del></p><p> </p><p><ins class="ministerial">DCMS is committed to offering all applicants equality of opportunity to ensure that we attract and retain candidates with the most talent and potential. To this end, the DCMS recruitment process does not require applicants to declare unspent criminal convictions at the initial recruitment stage. Applicants are asked to declare unspent criminal convictions as part of basic employment checks when a provisional offer of employment has been made. Decisions concerning appointment to a post where an individual has a conviction history are made on a case-by-case basis.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"><strong> </strong></ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The department does not retain details centrally that would allow us to identify employees with unspent convictions so the information requested could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</ins></p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 28/02/2017 17:40:34 question first ministerially corrected 01/03/2017 11:18:54 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock previous answer version 37703 answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4463 label Biography information for Chris Stephens

691823

registered interest
date	20/02/2017
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 Culture, Media and Sport: Recruitment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether her Department operates a ban the box employment policy in respect of ex-offender job applicants with unspent convictions; and how many employees of her Department have unspent convictions.
tabling member constituency	South West Bedfordshire
tabling member printed	Andrew Selous
uin	64467
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2017 answer text <p>DCMS is committed to offering all applicants equality of opportunity to ensure that we attract and retain candidates with the most talent and potential. To this end, the DCMS recruitment process does not require applicants to declare unspent criminal convictions at the initial recruitment stage. Applicants are asked to declare unspent criminal convictions as part of basic employment checks when a provisional offer of employment has been made. Decisions concerning appointment to a post where an individual has a conviction history are made on a case-by-case basis.</p><p> </p><p>The department does not retain details centrally that would allow us to identify employees with unspent convictions so the information requested could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 28/02/2017 17:38:51 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous

691824

registered interest
date	20/02/2017
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 Culture, Media and Sport: Brexit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions she has had with the Department for Exiting the European Union on the contents of the White Paper entitled The United Kingdom's exit from and new partnership with the European Union, Cm 9417, published in February 2017.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
uin	64540
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2017 answer text <p>We, and other Departments, are working closely with the Department for Exiting the European Union on all aspects of exiting the European Union.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 28/02/2017 17:42:02 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

691825

registered interest
date	20/02/2017
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	Arts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to promote the sharing of facilities between different areas of the arts.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	64566
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2017 answer text <p>The importance of partnerships was one of the key themes of the Government's Culture White Paper which was published in March 2016 and we were clear that better collaboration between cultural sectors and partners at a local, regional and national level will help support communities and their access to culture.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 23/02/2017 12:51:18 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon