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1454315

registered interest
date	25/03/2022
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	Youth Services: North West
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 improve the provision of youth services in (a) St Helens North constituency, (b) Liverpool City Region and (c) the North West.
tabling member constituency	St Helens North
tabling member printed	Conor McGinn
uin	147062
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/03/2022 answer text <p>Local Authorities have a statutory duty to allocate funding to youth services in line with local need. This is funded from the Local Government settlement, which was over £12 billion this year.</p><p>The government recognises the vital role that youth services and activities play in improving the life chances and wellbeing of young people and is investing £560 million over the next 3 years in a new National Youth Guarantee, so that by 2025 every young person will have access to regular clubs and activities, adventures away from home and opportunities to volunteer.</p><p>Phase 1 of the Youth Investment Fund is providing funding for local youth organisations in 45 local authorities and around 600 district wards in levelling up priority areas in parts of England, including eligible areas in the North West. Funding for Phase 1 of the Youth Investment Fund has now been allocated to successful applicants by BBC Children in Need, the Intermediary Grant Maker. The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport plans to announce and publish a list of successful recipients of the grant on gov.uk in due course.</p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston grouped question UIN 147063 question first answered 30/03/2022 16:01:39 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	4458 label Biography information for Conor McGinn

1454316

registered interest
date	25/03/2022
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	Youth Investment Fund: North West
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 Youth Investment Fund, what proportion of phase 1 funding went to successful applicants located in (a) St Helens Metropolitan Borough, (b) Liverpool City Region Combined Authority and (c) the North West.
tabling member constituency	St Helens North
tabling member printed	Conor McGinn
uin	147063
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/03/2022 answer text <p>Local Authorities have a statutory duty to allocate funding to youth services in line with local need. This is funded from the Local Government settlement, which was over £12 billion this year.</p><p>The government recognises the vital role that youth services and activities play in improving the life chances and wellbeing of young people and is investing £560 million over the next 3 years in a new National Youth Guarantee, so that by 2025 every young person will have access to regular clubs and activities, adventures away from home and opportunities to volunteer.</p><p>Phase 1 of the Youth Investment Fund is providing funding for local youth organisations in 45 local authorities and around 600 district wards in levelling up priority areas in parts of England, including eligible areas in the North West. Funding for Phase 1 of the Youth Investment Fund has now been allocated to successful applicants by BBC Children in Need, the Intermediary Grant Maker. The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport plans to announce and publish a list of successful recipients of the grant on gov.uk in due course.</p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston grouped question UIN 147062 question first answered 30/03/2022 16:01:39 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	4458 label Biography information for Conor McGinn

1453262

registered interest
date	22/03/2022
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	Youth Services: Harrow West
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 implications for her policies of the claim by the YMCA that, adjusted to real terms, Harrow West has experienced a decrease in funding for youth services of 61 per cent in the last decade; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Harrow West
tabling member printed	Gareth Thomas
uin	144819
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/03/2022 answer text <p>Local Authorities have a statutory duty to allocate funding to youth services in line with local need. This is funded from the Local Government settlement, which was over £12 billion this year.</p><p>The government recognises the vital role that youth services and activities play in improving the life chances and wellbeing of young people. The government is investing £560 million over the next 3 years in a new National Youth Guarantee, so that by 2025 every young person will have access to regular clubs and activities, adventures away from home and opportunities to volunteer.</p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 30/03/2022 16:03:21 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	177 label Biography information for Gareth Thomas

1452806

registered interest
date	21/03/2022
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: Ownership
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 she is taking to enable football clubs to determine if they want to have a full or partial fan ownership model.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	143746
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2022 answer text <p>The Fan Led Review of Football Governance highlighted the importance of proper fan engagement in key decisions and recommended giving fans tools to protect key club heritage items such as club badge or name.</p><p>The government is working at pace to consider the recommendations of the Fan Led Review, including detailed consideration of the recommendations on improving fan engagement as well as those made on enhancing the existing owners’ and directors’ test.</p><p>The DCMS Secretary of State committed to Parliament on 3 March to bring forward our government response as soon as possible. This response will be issued in the coming weeks.</p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 28/03/2022 10:20:17 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1453001

registered interest
date	21/03/2022
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	Rugby Football League: Finance
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 funding her Department has provided to the Rugby Football League since 2017; and on what projects that funding has been spent.
tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
uin	143784
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2022 answer text <p>I am looking forward to welcoming teams from across the world to the Men’s, Women’s and Wheelchair Rugby League World Cup which will take place in October and November. As part of this, the government has provided £10 million worth of funding to the CreatedBy legacy programme to support the development of large and small scale projects.</p><p>The Rugby Football League has received support from the government’s £600 million Sport Survival Package which ensured the survival of sports organisations throughout the pandemic. The Rugby Football League received £16.7 million loan support and £1.95 million grant support from the package, totalling £18.6 million of combined funding. This funding has safeguarded the immediate future of the sport for the communities it serves.</p><p>Furthermore, rugby league clubs will have benefitted from the £220m of National Lottery and Exchequer funding committed by Sport England since March 2020 to support community sport clubs and exercise centres through this pandemic.</p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 28/03/2022 11:17:19 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury

1452474

registered interest
date	18/03/2022
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 Governance Fan-led Review
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 her Department plans to publish its response to the Fan-Led Review of Football Governance.
tabling member constituency	Luton South
tabling member printed	Rachel Hopkins
uin	142528
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/03/2022 answer text <p>The Government has endorsed the principle that football requires a strong, independent regulator to secure the future of our national game. We are working at pace to consider the recommendations of the Fan Led Review, and determine the most effective way to deliver an independent regulator.</p><p>The DCMS Secretary of State committed to Parliament on 3 March to bring forward our Government response as soon as possible.</p><p>This response will be issued in the coming weeks.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 29/03/2022 10:03:56 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	4873 label Biography information for Rachel Hopkins

1452273

registered interest
date	17/03/2022
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	Tourism
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 her Department has made of the length of time it will take for the inbound tourism market to return to pre-covid-19 pandemic levels.
tabling member constituency	Feltham and Heston
tabling member printed	Seema Malhotra
uin	141989
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2022 answer text <p>The Tourism Recovery Plan (TRP), published in June 2021, sets out the role of the UK government in assisting and accelerating the tourism sector’s recovery from COVID-19. The TRP sets out ambitious and stretching targets to recover inbound visitor numbers and spend to 2019 levels by the end of 2023 and recover domestic overnight trip volume and spend by the end of 2022 - at least a year faster than independent forecasts predict.</p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 28/03/2022 15:04:28 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra

1452278

registered interest
date	17/03/2022
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	Tourism
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 plans her Department has to help increase domestic tourism.
tabling member constituency	Feltham and Heston
tabling member printed	Seema Malhotra
uin	141990
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2022 answer text <p>Our Tourism Recovery Plan (TRP) sets out an ambition to recover domestic tourism to pre pandemic levels of 99m overnight trips and spend of £19 billion by the end of 2022. We have been committed to supporting the sector to remain resilient through the pandemic and have provided over £37 billion to the tourism, leisure and hospitality sectors in the form of grants, loans and tax breaks.</p><p>The Tourism Recovery Plan also announced plans for a new rail pass which, which we hope to launch this year, to help make it easier and more sustainable for domestic tourists to get around Scotland, England, and Wales.</p><p>VisitEngland launched the next phase of its domestic marketing campaign, Escape the Everyday, in February. The campaign will focus on cities as they are impacted by lower numbers of international visitors and it will target a ‘pre-nester’ audience (18-34 year olds), encouraging them to book a short city-break.</p><p>2022 also promises a host of unmissable events, including Her Majesty’s Jubilee, with a programme of events over the extended Jubilee Bank holiday; Unboxed, which aims to engage millions of people through in person and digital events; as well as the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games, which will drive domestic and international visitors to the region.</p><p>English Tourism Week from 18th-27th March 2022 is a great opportunity to showcase the best of what the English tourism industry has to offer. I have been visiting some of England’s fantastic tourist destinations and attractions during the week. The government is committed to the sector’s recovery post-pandemic and English Tourism Week is an opportunity to celebrate the resilience of the sector and demonstrating our world-class offer.</p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 28/03/2022 15:06:58 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra

1453889

registered interest
date	17/03/2022
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: Government Assistance
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 support grassroots sport.
tabling member constituency	Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner
tabling member printed	David Simmonds
uin	906279
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2022 answer text <p>Sport and physical activity are vital for our physical and mental health, and should be front and centre as we build back better from the pandemic, which is why Sport England has invested over £1.5 billion of funding in developing grassroots sport since April 2016. This includes £120,535 of support in the Honourable Gentleman’s constituency since March 2020.</p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 24/03/2022 17:19:45 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	4872 label Biography information for David Simmonds

1451754

registered interest
date	16/03/2022
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: Belarus and Russia
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 help prevent Russia and Belarus participating in international sporting events.
tabling member constituency	Stockton South
tabling member printed	Matt Vickers
uin	141325
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2022 answer text <p>On Thursday 3 March, the Secretary of State and I convened a summit with 24 international ministerial counterparts - or senior representatives on their behalf - to discuss the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the response of international sport.</p><p>The summit followed bilateral meetings that I held with counterparts from Canada, Poland and Germany.</p><p>Following the international summit, a joint <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/statement-on-russias-war-on-ukraine-international-sport" target="_blank">statement</a> was signed by 37 nations and published on Tuesday 8 March, affirming the position outlined below:</p><ul><li><p>Russia and Belarus should not be permitted to host, bid for or be awarded any international sporting events.</p></li><li><p>Individual athletes selected by Russia and Belarus, administrators and teams representing the Russian or Belarusian state should be banned from competing in other countries, including those representing bodies, cities or brands that are effectively representing Russia or Belarus, such as major football clubs.</p></li><li><p>Wherever possible, appropriate actions should be taken to limit sponsorship and other financial support from entities with links to the Russian or Belarusian states.</p></li></ul><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 24/03/2022 17:18:40 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	4844 label Biography information for Matt Vickers