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77551

registered interest
date	14/07/2014
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: Herefordshire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 7 July 2014, Official Report, column 15W, on mobile telephones: Herefordshire, whether officials of his Department commissioned or carried out drive testing to check the level of coverage in Fownhope.
tabling member constituency	North Herefordshire
tabling member printed	Bill Wiggin
uin	205593
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2014 answer text <p><strong>No drive testing has been carried out in Fownhope but Government is currently looking at what can be done to extend mobile coverage across the country. </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 21/07/2014 11:28:36 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	1428 label Biography information for Sir Bill Wiggin

77553

registered interest
date	14/07/2014
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: Rural Areas
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what progress his Department has made in upgrading fibre-optic broadband infrastructure in (a) Copeland and (b) other rural areas.
tabling member constituency	Copeland
tabling member printed	Mr Jamie Reed
uin	205697
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2014 answer text <p>The Cumbria project will deliver Superfast broadband to nearly 110,000 premises in Cumbria by March 2015. The local broadband project team provide information about the roll-out timetable, including a post code checker on the local authority web site, which can be found at <a href="http://www.connectingcumbria.org.uk/when-and-where" target="_blank">http://www.connectingcumbria.org.uk/when-and-where</a>. With respect to the Copeland area, the local project team report that, combined with the BT Commercial roll out, it has already delivered superfast broadband to 10,500 premises to date. By June 2015, the fibre broadband roll-out will be completed and in Copeland over 90% of premises will have access to superfast broadband. To date the Connecting Cumbria project has delivered superfast broadband to nearly 40,000 and the national programme has delivered to over 600,000 premises and that number will rise to 1 million by the end of summer.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 17/07/2014 12:20:39 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	1503 label Biography information for Mr Jamie Reed

77363

registered interest
date	11/07/2014
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: Primary Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 7 July, Official Report, column 143-4W on Arts: Primary Education, what data are collected by his Department as part of the Taking Part Survey.
tabling member constituency	Camberwell and Peckham
tabling member printed	Ms Harriet Harman
uin	205449
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2014 answer text <p>A copy of this data has been placed in the House of Commons Library system on 19 June (ref: DEP2014/0898).</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 16/07/2014 13:10:25 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	150 label Biography information for Ms Harriet Harman

77000

registered interest
date	10/07/2014
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Video Games: Cybersecurity
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether his Department has taken steps to protect from cyber-crime attacks videogame developers and publishers who have products that are specifically based online.
tabling member constituency	Hove
tabling member printed	Mike Weatherley
uin	205270
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/08/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) is playing a key role in the Government’s five-year, £860m National Cyber Security Programme and has delivered a range of measures to help protect all UK businesses from cyber crime attacks. The Government has regular discussions with the videogames industry, for example through the work of the Creative Industries Council. Companies can draw upon various forms of Government help and support, such as the range of good practice guidance and the £5,000 cyber security innovation vouchers aimed at small businesses and start-ups. BIS continues to work with Government and industry partners to raise awareness of cyber threats and encourage businesses to take action to protect themselves.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 29/08/2014 08:49:47 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot previous answer version 10693 answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark answering member 1578
tabling member	3984 label Biography information for Mike Weatherley

77001

registered interest
date	10/07/2014
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Business: Cybersecurity
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that UK businesses are protected from cyber-crime.
tabling member constituency	Hove
tabling member printed	Mike Weatherley
uin	205271
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/08/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) is playing a key role in the delivery of the National Cyber Security Strategy, a five-year programme to transform the UK’s approach to cyber security, backed up with £860m of investment.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>BIS leads on the “making it safer to do business in cyber space” objective and has delivered a range of measures to help protect UK business from cyber crime, including:</p><p> </p><p>· publishing a range of good practice cyber security guidance aimed at large and small businesses;</p><p> </p><p>· delivering the ‘Cyber Streetwise’ campaign with the Home Office to help businesses and consumers protect themselves against online crime;</p><p> </p><p>· launching the industry approved “Cyber Essentials” scheme which enables businesses to implement a good basic level of cyber hygiene against cyber threats;</p><p> </p><p>· making over £1m of cyber security innovation vouchers available to UK SMEs to help them improve their cyber security, and</p><p> </p><p>· Support for industry initiatives such as Nominet’s ‘Cyber Assist’ pilot service for small and medium-sized enterprises experiencing cyber attacks.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>BIS also works with other Government departments and the security and intelligence agencies to deliver further measures to help protect UK business from cyber crime, including:</p><p> </p><p>· Creating a national Computer Emergency Response Team, CERT UK, which works closely with industry, Government and academia to enhance UK cyber resilience. It provides support to Critical National Infrastructure companies to handle cyber security incidents.</p><p> </p><p>· Setting up the Cyber Security Information Sharing Partnership (CISP), part of CERT UK, which enables companies to share information and intelligence on cyber security threats;</p><p> </p><p>· The creation of a Government approved list of Cyber Incident ‘Clean Up’ companies which can help companies respond effectively to incidents and get them up and running as soon as possible.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 28/08/2014 13:02:55 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot previous answer version 10684 answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark answering member 1578
tabling member	3984 label Biography information for Mike Weatherley

77039

registered interest
date	10/07/2014
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	Public Telephones
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what representations he has received from local authorities regarding the barriers to removing telephone boxes; and if he will take steps to remove such barriers.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
tabling member printed	Richard Burden
uin	205015
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2014 answer text <p>The Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport has not received any representations from local authorities regarding barriers to removing telephone boxes.</p><p> </p><p>Under its Universal Service obligations, BT must provide public call boxes which sufficiently meet the needs of consumers. Before BT can remove the last public call box from a site (defined as any area within a walking distance of 400 metres from that public call box), it must follow the process set out in the <a href="http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/binaries/consultations/uso/statement/callboxdirection.pdf" target="_blank">Direction</a><a href="http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/binaries/consultations/uso/statement/callboxdirection.pdf" target="_blank">s</a> and <a href="http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/binaries/consultations/uso/statement/removals.pdf" target="_blank">Guidance</a> published by Ofcom. The relevant local authority must be consulted and, if it can show why a particular uneconomic payphone should be retained, it can exercise the ‘local veto'. This will result in the payphone being retained.</p><p> </p><p>Local councils can also ask BT to remove a particular box. Assuming BT agrees to the request, if there are other boxes within 400 metres, the box can be removed without consultation; if not, BT would need to follow the process above.</p><p> </p><p>These procedures ensure a process for the removal of uneconomic phone boxes, balanced with appropriate safeguards against the removal of phone boxes where they still serve a community need.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 15/07/2014 15:21:17 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	301 label Biography information for Richard Burden

77056

registered interest
date	10/07/2014
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: West Yorkshire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when Superfast West Yorkshire will be (a) finished and (b) ready to use by businesses in Green Lane Industrial Estate, in Featherstone; and what assessment he has made of the length of time taken to complete this work.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	205110
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2014 answer text <p>I am satisfied that the West Yorkshire project is on scheduled to deliver, within the agreed timetable, superfast broadband to nearly 59,000 premises in West Yorkshire by September 2015. The local broadband project team provide information about the roll-out timetable, including a post code checker on the local authority web site, which can be found at <a href="http://www.superfastwestyorkshire.co.uk/coverage" target="_blank">http://www.superfastwestyorkshire.co.uk/coverage</a>. With respect to the Green Lane Industrial Estate, my Department has been informed the local cabinet connecting that site is scheduled to be upgraded to fibre broadband by the end of September 2014.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 17/07/2014 12:22:09 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

77057

registered interest
date	10/07/2014
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment his Department has made of the progress of the Mobile Infrastructure Project.
tabling member constituency	North East Cambridgeshire
tabling member printed	Stephen Barclay
uin	205123
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2014 answer text <p>I hold regular meetings with supplier Arqiva to discuss the Mobile Infrastructure Project and officials in BDUK are in constant contact with Arqiva to monitor and assess progress.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 15/07/2014 15:18:20 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay

77058

registered interest
date	10/07/2014
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: Cambridgeshire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what spot data Ofcom holds for Cambridgeshire.
tabling member constituency	North East Cambridgeshire
tabling member printed	Stephen Barclay
uin	205124
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2014 answer text <p>Ofcom compile data on coverage from the mobile network operators to feed into their Infrastructure Report. In March this year Ofcom commissioned updated voice coverage data from the operators to feed into planning for the Mobile Infrastructure Project. This data covers the UK, including Cambridgeshire, and highlights areas with no coverage from any operator, or ‘not spots'. The Mobile Infrastructure Project aims to put in place infrastructure to provide coverage to as many not spots containing premises as possible.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 15/07/2014 15:19:40 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay

77059

registered interest
date	10/07/2014
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: Cambridgeshire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment his Department has made of mobile telephone coverage in Cambridgeshire.
tabling member constituency	North East Cambridgeshire
tabling member printed	Stephen Barclay
uin	205125
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2014 answer text <p>The Department does not directly monitor mobile coverage. Ofcom undertakes monitoring of mobile coverage and ensures compliance by the mobile network operators with any coverage obligations included in their spectrum licences. Ofcom's most recent coverage figures, published in December 2013, indicate that 99.8% of premises in Cambridgeshire receive signal from at least one mobile operator, and 89.6% from all four operators.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 15/07/2014 15:20:23 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay