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1247133

registered interest
date	30/10/2020
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	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 steps he is taking to tackle offensive, harmful and illegal content online.
tabling member constituency	West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine
tabling member printed	Andrew Bowie
uin	109546
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2020 answer text <p>The Government is committed to ensuring that the UK is the safest place in the world to be online. In April 2019 we published the Online Harms White Paper which set out our intention to establish in law a new ‘duty of care’ on companies towards their users. The ‘duty of care’ will ensure that companies have robust systems and processes in place to tackle illegal content and protect users.</p><p>We will publish a full government response to the Online Harms White Paper consultation which will provide further detail on our proposals. This will be followed by legislation, which will be ready early next year.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 03/11/2020 16:10:29 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4601 label Biography information for Andrew Bowie

1247270

registered interest
date	30/10/2020
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	Young People: 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 steps his Department is taking to (a) protect young people from the effects of addiction to loot boxes in computer games and (b) raise awareness among parents of those effects.
tabling member constituency	Scunthorpe
tabling member printed	Holly Mumby-Croft
uin	109762
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2020 answer text <p>The government launched a call for evidence on 23 September 2020 to seek detailed information on the impact of loot boxes on players, particularly children and young people. The call for evidence will run until 22 November 2020 and examines concerns that loot boxes may encourage gambling-like behaviour and lead to problem gambling, as well as considering the size and scale of the loot box market in the UK, and the impact of current voluntary and statutory protections.</p><p>The government stands ready to take action should the outcomes of the call for evidence support taking a new approach to ensure users, and particularly young people, are better protected.</p><p>The government also continues to work with industry to encourage the use of parental controls that can disable or limit access and spending on video games devices. We welcomed the launch on 3 November 2020 of the games industry’s Get Set Go campaign, a continuation of the Get Smart about P.L.A.Y. campaign that launched in January 2020 supporting parents to set up parental controls.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 04/11/2020 16:20:57 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4867 label Biography information for Holly Mumby-Croft

1247369

registered interest
date	30/10/2020
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	Writers: Performing Arts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether his Department has undertaken research on the value added by scriptwriting to the UK creative industries.
tabling member constituency	Clacton
tabling member printed	Giles Watling
uin	109632
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2020 answer text <p>The Government supports scriptwriters as part of its broader sectoral support for the film sector, in particular through the approximately £70 million provided annually (including Lottery funding) to our lead agency for film the British Film Institute, and its funded partners. This funding supports screenwriting specific opportunities offered as part of the BFI Film Academy and BFI NETWORK, which invest in the next generation of screenwriting talent.</p><p>While the Department has not undertaken such specific research, the global box office performance of UK films and foreign productions which draw on UK source material is a good indicator of the value of scriptwriting. Of the top 200 grossing films released worldwide from 2010 to 2019, 26 are based on stories and characters created by UK writers, and collectively these films have earned $19 billion at the global box office,13% of the total.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 05/11/2020 16:48:51 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4677 label Biography information for Giles Watling

1246226

registered interest
date	22/10/2020
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	UK Safer Internet Centre
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 role the UK Safer Internet Centre partnership has in bringing to justice people guilty of abusive online practices.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	107605
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/11/2020 answer text <p>The government recognises the important role the UK Safer Internet Centre delivers on online safety. This includes the operation of a public hotline for reporting and removing child sexual abuse material online and a helpline to support professionals working with children in the UK with any online safety issues young people in their care may face.</p><p>The government engages regularly with the UK Safer Internet Centre, and has previously provided it with funding to develop advice for schools on understanding, preventing and responding to cyberbullying, and an online safety toolkit to help schools deliver sessions about cyberbullying, peer pressure and sexting.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 02/11/2020 12:03:20 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1246307

registered interest
date	22/10/2020
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	UK Safer Internet Centre: EU Grants and Loans
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 he has to provide funding to the UK Safer Internet Centre when its funding from the EU ends.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	107587
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/11/2020 answer text <p>The government recognises the important work the UK Safer Internet Centre delivers on online safety. The Centre currently receives funding from the European Commission’s Connecting Europe Facility programme. Officials regularly engage with the Centre, including on its funding position following the UK’s exit from the EU.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 02/11/2020 12:06:01 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

1245590

registered interest
date	21/10/2020
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	Performing Arts: Self-employed
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 he has made of the adequacy of financial support available to self-employed and freelance people in creative industries.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham East
tabling member printed	Nadia Whittome
uin	107147
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/11/2020 answer text <p>The government has taken active steps to support the self-employed. We’ve supported the self-employed with over £13 billion in grants and the Chancellor has doubled the generosity of the self-employed grant extension scheme from 20% to 40% of people’s profits. The expanded Jobs Support Scheme, announced by the Chancellor on 22 October, will include more generous and frequent cash grants, and more help for the self-employed.</p><p>DCMS continues to engage with HMT to feed into their assessment of the potential impacts of Government support. We will ensure the needs of our sectors are also factored into the developing economic response, and that DCMS sectors, including the live music industry, are supported throughout this time.</p><p>The Arts Council England has made £119 million available to individuals (including freelancers and self-employed), with £23.1 million already distributed and £95.9 million currently available to apply for via open funds.</p><p>The £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund will benefit freelancers, because it will invest in organisations and help them to reopen, and restart performances.</p><p><strong><p><p></strong></p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 02/11/2020 15:01:19 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4869 label Biography information for Nadia Whittome

1245625

registered interest
date	21/10/2020
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	Performing Arts: Redundancy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if he will make an assessment of the implications for his policies of the recent Concert Promoters Association report which states that 26,100 jobs are expected to have been made redundant in the live music industry by the end of 2020 without further Government intervention.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
uin	107097
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/11/2020 answer text <p>DCMS continues to engage with HMT to feed into their assessment of the potential impacts of Government support. We will ensure the needs of our sectors are also factored into the developing economic response, and that DCMS sectors, including the live music industry, are supported throughout this time.</p><p>An unprecedented £1.57 billion support package for the cultural sector has benefitted the creative industries by providing support to venues and many other cultural organisations to stay open and continue operating. So far, over £500m has been announced from the Culture Recovery Fund to protect cultural organisations across England, almost a fifth of which has gone to the music sector. This support package will benefit employment, because it will invest in organisations and help them to reopen, and restart performances.</p><p>As part of this package, £3.36 million has been shared among 136 venues across England who applied for the Emergency Grassroot Music Venues Fund. This funding has supported grassroots venues to survive the imminent risk of collapse caused by the coronavirus pandemic.</p><p>The expanded Jobs Support Scheme, announced by the Chancellor on 22 October, will include more generous and frequent cash grants, and more help for the self-employed.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 02/11/2020 12:10:53 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1245630

registered interest
date	21/10/2020
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	Performing Arts: Self-employed
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of the Government support made available for people who were in temporary and freelance roles in the live music industry prior to start of the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
uin	107100
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/11/2020 answer text <p>Over two thirds of eligible people in the cultural sectors have benefitted from the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme (SEISS). We’ve supported the self-employed with over £13 billion in grants and the Chancellor has doubled the generosity of the self-employed grant extension scheme from 20% to 40% of people’s profits. The expanded Jobs Support Scheme, announced by the Chancellor on 22 October, will include more generous and frequent cash grants, and more help for the self-employed.</p><p>DCMS continues to engage with HMT to feed into their assessment of the potential impacts of Government support. We will ensure the needs of our sectors are also factored into the developing economic response, and that DCMS sectors, including the live music industry, are supported throughout this time.</p><p>The Arts Council England has made £119 million available to individuals, with £23.1 million already distributed and £95.9 million currently available to apply for via open funds.</p><p>The £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund will benefit freelancers, because it will invest in organisations and help them to reopen, and restart performances. So far, over £500m has been announced from the Culture Recovery Fund to protect cultural organisations across England, almost a fifth of which has gone to the music sector.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 02/11/2020 12:08:06 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1244977

registered interest
date	20/10/2020
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	Arts: Self-employment Income Support Scheme
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 his Department has to support freelancers working in the creative sector who are ineligible for the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	106297
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2020 answer text <p>Arts Council England (ACE) has already distributed £104m through its Emergency Response Package to ensure the immediate resilience of this vital sector. The package included £80.7 million of support for cultural organisations, and £23.1 million of financial support for individuals, including freelancers. More than 9000 organisations and individuals were successful in applying for this emergency funding.</p><p> </p><p>To complement Government Funding, ACE have made over £115m of funding available for individuals, including freelancers, to apply for. This includes:</p><ul><li><p>£17.1m through the Emergency Response Fund for individuals;</p></li><li><p>£18m through their Developing Your Creative Practice fund;</p></li><li><p>£75m through National Lottery Project Grants and</p></li><li><p>£6m distributed by a series of Benevolent Funds focused on the self-employed.</p></li></ul><p><strong><br></strong>An unprecedented £1.57 billion support package for the cultural sector has benefitted the live events sector by providing support to venues and many other cultural organisations to stay open and continue operating. £333 million was awarded to 1973 arts organisations which had applied for grants less than £1 million from ACE. Each organisation that receives money will know what best they can do to support their workforce, including their freelance workforce.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 26/10/2020 09:17:43 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1245133

registered interest
date	20/10/2020
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	Events Industry: Insurance
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 he has made of the potential merits of introducing a Government-backed insurance scheme for live events.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh South
tabling member printed	Ian Murray
uin	106314
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2020 answer text <p>We are aware that there are calls for a Government backed insurance scheme for live events. I am grateful for the evidence provided and I know DCMS and HMT colleagues are closely monitoring the situation together with the sector.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>We are continuing to meet with live events stakeholders to provide support and guidance for venues to re-open and stage live events.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 26/10/2020 09:15:42 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	3966 label Biography information for Ian Murray