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1579529

registered interest
date	23/01/2023
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	Leisure: 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 funding his Department allocated to sport and recreation facilities in each year for which records are available.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	129790
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2023 answer text <p>Supporting grassroots sport is a key Government priority. We recognise that taking part in sport brings communities together and contributes to making people both happier and healthier.</p><p>The majority of funding to grassroots sports projects is delivered through our Arms Length Body, Sport England. Last year, Sport England received almost £350 million from the Exchequer and National Lottery.</p><p>The Government also invests £18 million a year into community sport facilities via the Football Foundation, alongside the English Football Association and the Premier League. We have committed an additional £230 million UK-wide between 2021 and 2025 to increase participation, particularly for under-represented groups including women and girls and disabled players.</p><p>Sport England’s most recent annual report and set of accounts can be found here- <a href="https://www.sportengland.org/corporate-information/annual-report" target="_blank">https://www.sportengland.org/corporate-information/annual-report</a>.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 26/01/2023 08:37:55 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

1579541

registered interest
date	23/01/2023
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: Reform
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 she will take steps to ensure that the White Paper on football reform (a) supports English Football League clubs and (b) protects the Premier League.
tabling member constituency	Mansfield
tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
uin	129993
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2023 answer text <p>The Government will publish a White Paper on Football Governance reforms imminently. The White Paper will set out how football should be reformed to improve the financial stability and governance of football clubs. This will balance allowing the game to thrive and remain a global success story, while effectively tackling harms where they exist.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 26/01/2023 16:10:16 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley

1579581

registered interest
date	23/01/2023
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, whether the Government will give a new independent regulator for football the necessary powers to ensure fair distributions from the Premier League to the rest of the clubs in line with the recommendations of the Fan Led Review.
tabling member constituency	Walsall South
tabling member printed	Valerie Vaz
uin	129795
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2023 answer text <p>The Government published its response to the recommendations made by the Independent Fan-Led Review of Football Governance in April 2022. The Government recognises the need for the long-term financial sustainability of football clubs, throughout the football pyramid.</p><p>The Government will publish a White Paper on Football Governance reforms imminently, to set out our detailed plans to improve the financial stability and governance of football clubs across all leagues. The Government remains clear that the preferred outcome on financial distributions is a football led solution. The football authorities can take forward some of the reforms needed now, and we continue to work with industry to push toward this.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew grouped question UIN 129796 question first answered 26/01/2023 08:43:05 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	4076 label Biography information for Valerie Vaz

1568940

registered interest
date	20/01/2023
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: Females
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 she has for the regulation of women's football.
tabling member constituency	Sunderland Central
tabling member printed	Julie Elliott
uin	128642
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2023 answer text <p>The Government published its response to the recommendations made by the independent Fan Led Review of Football Governance in April. We absolutely recognise the need for football to be reformed to ensure the game’s sustainability in the long term. We remain committed to publishing a White Paper setting out our proposals for the reform of football governance and will do so imminently.</p><p>On women’s football we have considered the findings of the Fan Led Review. The Review of Women’s Football is still gathering evidence and we do not want to preempt the findings of that Review, which will be published in due course.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 26/01/2023 08:40:11 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	4127 label Biography information for Julie Elliott

1568980

registered interest
date	20/01/2023
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	Voluntary Organisations: Cost of Living
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 she will take steps with Cabinet colleagues to provide targeted financial support for voluntary and faith groups in the context of the cost of the living crisis.
tabling member constituency	Battersea
tabling member printed	Marsha De Cordova
uin	128712
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2023 answer text <p>With government support, voluntary and faith groups have shown significant resilience over the past few years, and will again be crucial in supporting communities and households through this challenging period.</p><p>Government is supporting all organisations, including those across the civil society sector, with their energy bills. This support has now been extended until March 2024 via the Energy Bills Discount Scheme. Wholesale gas prices have now fallen to levels just before Putin’s invasion of Ukraine and have almost halved since the current scheme was announced. This scheme provides long term certainty for organisations and reflects how the scale of the challenge has changed since September last year.</p><p>DCMS will keep engaging constructively across the civil society sector and colleagues in government to monitor the impact of rising costs.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 30/01/2023 15:48:42 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	4676 label Biography information for Marsha De Cordova

1568781

registered interest
date	19/01/2023
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	Swimming Pools: Energy
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 she will estimate the number and proportion of swimming pools that have reduced their opening hours in the last six months as a result of rising energy costs; and if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of reduced opening hours of those pools on public health.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	127822
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2023 answer text <p>We recognise the importance of ensuring public access to swimming pools, as swimming is a great way for people of all ages to stay fit and healthy. The responsibility of providing this access lies at Local Authority level, and the Government continues to encourage Local Authorities to support swimming facilities.</p><p>We appreciate the impact rising energy prices are having on organisations of all sizes, including on operators of swimming pools. That’s why we announced the £18 billion Energy Bill Relief Scheme (EBRS) in September last year. The EBRS was always time-limited, and has now been replaced with the Energy Bills Discount Scheme (EBDS). Under the EBDS, swimming pools will continue to receive discounts on their gas and electricity bills during the 12-month period from April 2023 to March 2024.</p><p>Officials in my department are in regular contact with representatives from the sector to assess the impact of rising energy costs, including monitoring how operators and local authorities are responding to them. I was pleased to host a roundtable earlier this week to hear directly from the sector on how they are adapting to the challenges faced.</p><p>Sport England has invested £12,775,274 in swimming and diving projects since April 2019, which includes £9,360,002 to Swim England. This is in addition to the £100 million National Leisure Recovery Fund, which supported the reopening of local authority swimming pools throughout the country after the pandemic.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew grouped question UIN 127823 question first answered 25/01/2023 17:44:57 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1568782

registered interest
date	19/01/2023
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	Swimming Pools
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 she is taking steps to help ensure that swimming pools remain open to the public.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	127823
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2023 answer text <p>We recognise the importance of ensuring public access to swimming pools, as swimming is a great way for people of all ages to stay fit and healthy. The responsibility of providing this access lies at Local Authority level, and the Government continues to encourage Local Authorities to support swimming facilities.</p><p>We appreciate the impact rising energy prices are having on organisations of all sizes, including on operators of swimming pools. That’s why we announced the £18 billion Energy Bill Relief Scheme (EBRS) in September last year. The EBRS was always time-limited, and has now been replaced with the Energy Bills Discount Scheme (EBDS). Under the EBDS, swimming pools will continue to receive discounts on their gas and electricity bills during the 12-month period from April 2023 to March 2024.</p><p>Officials in my department are in regular contact with representatives from the sector to assess the impact of rising energy costs, including monitoring how operators and local authorities are responding to them. I was pleased to host a roundtable earlier this week to hear directly from the sector on how they are adapting to the challenges faced.</p><p>Sport England has invested £12,775,274 in swimming and diving projects since April 2019, which includes £9,360,002 to Swim England. This is in addition to the £100 million National Leisure Recovery Fund, which supported the reopening of local authority swimming pools throughout the country after the pandemic.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew grouped question UIN 127822 question first answered 25/01/2023 17:44:57 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1567980

registered interest
date	18/01/2023
answering body	Women and Equalities
answering dept id	31
answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
hansard heading	Gender Recognition: Scotland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, if she will make an estimate of the number of hours that (a) Ministers and (b) officials in her Department have spent in discussions with representatives of the Scottish government on the potential cross-border issues relating to the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
uin	126791
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2023 answer text <p>UK Government officials have had regular scheduled meetings with Scottish Government counterparts since the Gender Recognition Reform Bill’s introduction in the Scottish Parliament. Consideration of potential cross-border issues formed a key part of this engagement.</p><p>Since taking up her role as Minister for Women and Equalities on 25 October 2022, the Minister also engaged directly with her Scottish Government counterpart, both in person and through correspondence.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 24/01/2023 16:09:14 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1568170

registered interest
date	18/01/2023
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	Museums and Galleries
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 number of objects in museum collections deaccessioned in the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	126607
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2023 answer text <p>The Government does not keep such records as museums and galleries in the UK operate independently of the Government. Decisions relating to the care and management of their collections are a matter for the trustees of each museum.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 26/01/2023 17:34:41 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1568176

registered interest
date	18/01/2023
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	Museums and Galleries
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 museums are prevented by statute from deaccessioning objects in their collections; and whether she plans to extend those statutes to other institutions.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	126608
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2023 answer text <p>Some national museums are prevented by law from ‘deaccessioning’ objects in their collections unless, broadly, they are duplicates or unfit for retention. The two exceptions to this are human remains (less than 1,000 years old) and Nazi-era spoliation.</p><p>The Acts governing the national museums which have provisions prohibiting the trustees of the museums from disposing of items in their collection are listed below. The provisions are explicit and specific, setting out limited scenarios where disposal would be permitted. The Government has no plans to change these Acts.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Governing Legislation</p></td><td><p>Organisation</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>British Museum Act 1963</p></td><td><p>British Museum National History Museum</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>British Library Act 1972</p></td><td><p>British Library</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>National Heritage Act 1983</p></td><td><p>Victoria and Albert Museum Science Museum Royal Armouries Kew Gardens</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Merseyside Museums and Galleries Order 1986</p></td><td><p>National Museums Liverpool</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Museums and Galleries Act 1992</p></td><td><p>Tate National Portrait Gallery National Gallery Wallace Collection</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Imperial War Museum Act 1920</p></td><td><p>Imperial War Museum</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>National Maritime Museum Act 1934</p></td><td><p>Royal Museum Greenwich (National Maritime Museum)</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 26/01/2023 17:31:34 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord