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63020

registered interest
date	20/06/2014
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	Film
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 he has made of investment from overseas sources in film production in the UK in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
tabling member printed	Tom Greatrex
uin	201595
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>DCMS and the BFI do not hold data on the total investment from overseas sources in film production in the UK. However, the BFI collects data on the total expenditure on core filmmaking activities by international film production companies on productions made in the UK. Expenditure on core filmmaking activities includes pre-production, principal photography and post production but excludes any expenditure incurred on development, distribution or other non-production activities. The total UK spend in each year since 2010, is set out in the table.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>2010</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2011</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Inward Investment UK Spend (£ million)*</strong></p></td><td><p>1,011</p></td><td><p>1,070</p></td><td><p>623</p></td><td><p>868</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>Source: BFI</p><p> </p><p>*Rounded to the nearest £ million</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 26/06/2014 08:47:25 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot previous answer version 5248 answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	4047 label Biography information for Tom Greatrex

62859

registered interest
date	19/06/2014
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	Direct Selling
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps his Department has taken to tackle unsolicited marketing telephone calls originating from outside the UK.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	201555
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2014 answer text <p>Unsolicited marketing calls originating from outside the United Kingdom (UK) made by or on behalf of UK companies are legally required not to call a number that is registered with the Telephone Preference Service (TPS), which is provided under the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR) 2003. Protection is also provided under the PECR if consumers have previously notified the caller that they do not wish to receive such calls and for automated recorded messages calls, which require prior consent. The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) considers complaints and can issue a monetary penalty of up to £500,000. Calls made from abroad by overseas companies fall outside the jurisdiction of the UK.</p><p>Also, there are various steps that consumers can take to block nuisance calls from getting through to them. Most telecom service providers offer a range of services, usually for a small charge or for free, that can help to reduce the need to answer such calls. These include ‘Calling Line Identification Display', ‘Anonymous Call Rejection' and ‘Choose to Refuse'. BT's ‘Choose to Refuse' service allows consumers to block numbers by specifying numbers that they do not want to receive calls from. Also, 'Caller Display' enables a consumer to choose to ignore calls including those that withhold their number and ‘Anonymous Call Rejection' blocks incoming calls that withhold their number; although this may include some calls that consumers may want to receive. Additionally, telephone handsets and plug in devices are commercially available from the internet and high shops that can help to block unwanted nuisance calls.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 26/06/2014 15:10:06 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

62862

registered interest
date	19/06/2014
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	Direct Selling
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many companies were fined more than once for making nuisance calls by (a) the Information Commissioner's Office and (b) Ofcom in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Colne Valley
tabling member printed	Jason McCartney
uin	201463
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2014 answer text <p>The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) and the Office of Communications (Ofcom) have issued monetary penalties totalling more than £1.9 million since January 2012 for nuisance calls, however no company has been issued with a monetary penalty more than once by either ICO or Ofcom for making nuisance calls.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 26/06/2014 15:10:56 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	3953 label Biography information for Jason McCartney

62863

registered interest
date	19/06/2014
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	Direct Selling
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many companies were fined for making nuisance calls by (a) the Information Commissioner's Office and (b) Ofcom in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Colne Valley
tabling member printed	Jason McCartney
uin	201464
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2014 answer text <p>The number of monetary penalties issued for making nuisance calls by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) and the Office of Communications (Ofcom) in each of the last three years is set out in the table below. Also, both the ICO and Ofcom take informal enforcement action to ensure that companies about whom they have concerns are brought into compliance more quickly. From January 2013 - June 2014, ICO engaged with over 20 organisations, which were responsible for making nuisance calls and as a result recorded substantial reductions in complaints for five of these organisations. Ofcom's informal action against 25 organisations making silent and abandoned phone calls has resulted in complaints linked to the telephone numbers used by 22 of those organisations stopping or reducing significantly, while three cases are ongoing. The power to issue monetary penalties of £500,000 for ICO came into force in January 2012, whilst Ofcom's power to issue a monetary penalty of £2 million became effective in October 2010.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>Total</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>ICO*</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>£360,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Ofcom</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>£1,560,000</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>*ICO has also issued monetary penalties to two companies for SMS spam text messages in 2012 and 2013</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 26/06/2014 15:11:48 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	3953 label Biography information for Jason McCartney

62864

registered interest
date	19/06/2014
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	Direct Selling
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to increase the penalties available for repeat offenders against the law relating to nuisance calls.
tabling member constituency	Colne Valley
tabling member printed	Jason McCartney
uin	201465
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2014 answer text <p>Further legislation is not necessary, as both the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) and the Office of Communications (Ofcom) can issue substantive monetary penalties of up to £500,000 and £2 million respectively to any organisation that deliberately continues to contravene the regulations.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 03/07/2014 15:55:47 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	3953 label Biography information for Jason McCartney

62582

registered interest
date	18/06/2014
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 Libraries
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 he has made of the adequacy of local authority funding for the staffing of libraries.
tabling member constituency	Lincoln
tabling member printed	Karl McCartney
uin	201277
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2014 answer text <p>Public libraries are funded and run by local authorities and it is for each local authority to determine at a local level how much they spend on libraries and how to manage and deliver the service, including decisions about expenditure on staffing.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 26/06/2014 15:15:56 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	4028 label Biography information for Karl McCartney

62583

registered interest
date	18/06/2014
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 Libraries: Lincolnshire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will make representation to Lincolnshire County Council on its decision to invite volunteers to run some local libraries in Lincolnshire.
tabling member constituency	Lincoln
tabling member printed	Karl McCartney
uin	201278
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2014 answer text <p>The Secretary of State for the Department for Culture, Media and Sport has a statutory duty under the Public Libraries and Museums Act 1964 to superintend and promote the improvement of the public library service provided by local authorities in England. The Department is aware of the proposed changes to library service provision in Lincolnshire having received a number of representations from local residents. A legal challenge to the decision taken by Lincolnshire County Council to reconfigure its library services is to be considered by the High Court on 8/9 July and this Department will consider matters further in light of the outcome of the Judicial Review.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 26/06/2014 15:16:41 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	4028 label Biography information for Karl McCartney

62590

registered interest
date	18/06/2014
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to paragraph 18 of Investing in Britain's Future, Cm 8669, produced in June 2013, how he intends to spend the £250 million allocated to broadband in 2015-16 and 2016-17.
tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
uin	201331
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2014 answer text <p>With local match funding, the £250m allocated to broadband in 2015-16 and 2016-17 will enable superfast broadband coverage to be extended to 95% of premises by 2017. The Department announced indicative funding allocations for local broadband project areas in February 2014. The first procurements for projects using this funding are now under way.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 25/06/2014 13:31:41 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman

62229

registered interest
date	17/06/2014
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
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 he has made of the number of homes in the UK served by fibre to the home broadband services.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	201059
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2014 answer text <p>Ofcom monitors and publishes broadband coverage data for the UK indicated in its 2013 UK fixed broadband market report that superfast broadband was available to 73% of UK premises. Ofcom did not, however, publish a separate figure for the number of homes with fibre to the home broadband services.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 23/06/2014 12:55:28 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

62230

registered interest
date	17/06/2014
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	Press
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 10 June 2014, Official Report, columns 67-8W, on the press, whether he has set a date for meeting victims of press abuse and their representatives.
tabling member constituency	North Herefordshire
tabling member printed	Bill Wiggin
uin	201081
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2014 answer text <p>These arrangements are currently being finalised.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 24/06/2014 09:51:36 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	1428 label Biography information for Sir Bill Wiggin