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757580

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date	05/09/2017
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	Video Games
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 value of the video games industry to the UK economy in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	North Swindon
tabling member printed	Justin Tomlinson
uin	8792
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2017 answer text <p>DCMS’ annual Economic Estimates show the value of the Computer Games sub-sector for 2013 to 2015 only. Latest figures, published in November 2016, show that the sector contributed over £400 million to the UK economy per year in that period. 2016 data will be published at the end of this year.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 13/09/2017 15:06:04 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson

628099

registered interest
date	03/11/2016
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: Training
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 funding has been allocated to the Cyber Retraining Academy in partnership with the SANS institute.
tabling member constituency	North Swindon
tabling member printed	Justin Tomlinson
uin	51826
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2016 answer text <p>The Cyber Retraining Academy will provide much needed intensive training courses for those looking to change careers and join the cyber security profession. The government has allocated £1.25m to help set up the academy and provide training for 50 individuals including a recruitment campaign, equipment, course development, testing and certification, and help with employment for trained individuals. As the programme is established we will work toward making the academy self-sustaining without government funding.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 10/11/2016 13:51:35 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson

574045

registered interest
date	02/09/2016
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	Nuisance Calls
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what further steps her Department plans to take to tackle unsolicited and nuisance telephone calls.
tabling member constituency	North Swindon
tabling member printed	Justin Tomlinson
uin	44827
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2016 answer text <p>We are taking forward a range of legislative measures to tackle nuisance calls, which will increase consumer protection and choice by strengthening the Information Commissioner's Office's (ICO) ability to take enforcement action against organisations that break the law. Specific actions include; strengthening the ICO's direct marketing guidance by giving it statutory status; a proposal to extend the ICO’s powers of compulsory audit to more of the organisations that generate nuisance calls; and exploring the options for enabling the ICO to hold company directors to account for breaches of the direct marketing rules.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock grouped question UIN 45311 question first answered 12/09/2016 11:46:59 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson

574048

registered interest
date	02/09/2016
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	Video Games
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 value of the video games industry to the UK economy.
tabling member constituency	North Swindon
tabling member printed	Justin Tomlinson
uin	44861
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2016 answer text <p>Latest estimates from the DCMS Creative Industries Economic Estimates (https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/creative-industries-economic-estimates-january-2016 ) show that Gross Value Added for the computer games industry in the UK was £426m in 2014.</p><p> </p><p>Research by Nesta and trade association Ukie (http://www.nesta.org.uk/publications/map-uk-games-industry ) seeks to include the contribution of micro-businesses together with official statistics and this suggested that the contribution of video games could be substantially higher. We look forward to seeing the next iteration of this research which is due to be revealed this month and aims to further reflect the fast growing nature of the UK’s digital businesses.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 12/09/2016 11:45:15 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson