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164327

registered interest
date	24/11/2014
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	Nominet
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when and on what grounds Nominet was granted the exclusive authority to administer the .uk namespace.
tabling member constituency	Chesterfield
tabling member printed	Toby Perkins
uin	215677
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2014 answer text <p>Nominet was created as an initiative of the UK internet services community in 1996, in order to manage the rapidly increasing demand for domain names and ensure a single inter-operable network of addresses would continue to evolve. Prior to this, all requests for .uk domain names were approved by a Naming Committee established by the UK Education and Research Networking Association (UKERNA). The Government recognises Nominet’s continuing role in managing the .uk registry on a not-for-profit basis consistent with the multi-stakeholder model for internet governance that the Government supports.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 01/12/2014 15:06:45 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	3952 label Biography information for Mr Toby Perkins

164328

registered interest
date	24/11/2014
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	Nominet
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 effect of Nominet's licence to grant .uk domain names on the competitiveness of the domain registration market.
tabling member constituency	Chesterfield
tabling member printed	Toby Perkins
uin	215678
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2014 answer text <p>I have made no assessment of the effect of the launch of .uk domain names on the competitiveness of the domain registration market. However, the UK has one of the most competitive domain name markets in the world, with over 10m domain names on the .uk registry, making it the 6th largest registry. The wholesale price for domain names in the UK is less than those for .com or .net domain names and some 2700 domain name registries compete in the retail market for .uk domains, bringing significant benefits for consumers. Since the launch of .uk Second Level Domain Names, over 50,000 .uk second level domains were registered on the first day and over 100,000 after the first month.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 01/12/2014 15:06:11 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	3952 label Biography information for Mr Toby Perkins

164329

registered interest
date	24/11/2014
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	BBC
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the current BBC funding model; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Windsor
tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
uin	215689
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2014 answer text <table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td><p>No such assessment has been made. The Government has said that the right time to consider these questions is as part of the Charter Review which will not be starting in advance of the Election in 2015.</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 01/12/2014 15:08:49 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

164130

registered interest
date	21/11/2014
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	Art Works
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much his Department has spent on transporting, installing and removing works of art from the Government Art Collection for the display of artwork in his Department since May 2010.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	215572
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2014 answer text <p>Provision of figures for each financial year and each display covered by the PQ would incur disproportionate costs. The table below identifies the spend in each financial year since May 2010 for transporting, installing and removing works of art for Government Art Collection (GAC) displays in Government buildings in the UK and abroad. The figures also include transport from GAC to and from framers and/or conservators, to and from galleries/individual artist studios and incorporates packing, crating, art handling, transport, installation and de-installation.</p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>Transport for ongoing GAC display and conservation</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>UK</p></td><td><p>Overseas</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>£</p></td><td><p>£</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>58,520</p></td><td><p>64,597</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>63,798</p></td><td><p>40,004</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>93,896</p></td><td><p>32,103</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>62,854</p></td><td><p>81,373</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15 <br> (Year to date)</p></td><td><p>57,806</p></td><td><p>79,309</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 28/11/2014 11:42:31 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

164131

registered interest
date	21/11/2014
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: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much Arts Council England funding was awarded to organisations in (a) the London Borough of Hackney, (b) London and (c) England in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Hackney North and Stoke Newington
tabling member printed	Ms Diane Abbott
uin	215550
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2014 answer text <p>Arts Council England has invested the following in the last five years:</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td colspan="3"><p>Hackney</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>Grant in Aid (£000s)</p></td><td><p>Lottery (£000s)</p></td><td><p><strong>Total (£000s)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009/10</p></td><td><p>£7,418</p></td><td><p>£2,150,000</p></td><td><p><strong>£9,568</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>£7,088</p></td><td><p>£1,103,000</p></td><td><p><strong>£8,191</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>£6,616</p></td><td><p>£2,713</p></td><td><p><strong>£9,329</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>£7,861</p></td><td><p>£5,294</p></td><td><p><strong>£13,155</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>£6,445</p></td><td><p>£3,092</p></td><td><p><strong>£9,537</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total (£000s)</p></td><td><p>£35,427</p></td><td><p>£14,353</p></td><td><p><strong>£49,780</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Arts Council funding supports a number of arts organisations in Hackney such as the Graeae Theatre which champions the inclusion of Deaf and disabled people in the arts (which received £ 2,051,208 between 2011/12-2013/14), the Hackney Empire (which received £1,635,357 between 2011/12 and 2013/14) and the acclaimed Punchdrunk Theatre (£599,351 between 2011/12 and 2013/14) which tours and works both in and outside of London.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td colspan="3"><p>London</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>Grant in Aid (£000s)</p></td><td><p>Lottery (£000s)</p></td><td><p><strong>Total (£000s)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009/10</p></td><td><p>£190,203</p></td><td><p>£44,062</p></td><td><p><strong>£234,265</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>£197,575</p></td><td><p>£40,318</p></td><td><p><strong>£237,893</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>£180,966</p></td><td><p>£56,656</p></td><td><p><strong>£237,621</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>£188,055</p></td><td><p>£143,886</p></td><td><p><strong>£331,941</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>£184,892</p></td><td><p>£52,193</p></td><td><p><strong>£237,085</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total (£000s)</p></td><td><p>£941,690</p></td><td><p>£337,114</p></td><td><p><strong>£1,278,805</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td colspan="3"><p>England</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>Grant in Aid (£000s)</p></td><td><p>Lottery (£000s)</p></td><td><p><strong>Total (£000s)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009/10</p></td><td><p>£411,052</p></td><td><p>£144,091</p></td><td><p><strong>£555,143</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>£419,878</p></td><td><p>£95,571</p></td><td><p><strong>£515,448</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>£363,507</p></td><td><p>£157,210</p></td><td><p><strong>£520,717</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>£434,258</p></td><td><p>£316,128</p></td><td><p><strong>£750,386</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>£434,944</p></td><td><p>£171,275</p></td><td><p><strong>£606,219</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total (£000s)</p></td><td><p>£2,063,638</p></td><td><p>£884,274</p></td><td><p><strong>£2,947,912</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 28/11/2014 11:43:15 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	172 label Biography information for Ms Diane Abbott

164132

registered interest
date	21/11/2014
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	Odyssey Marine Exploration
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 his Department has received from or on behalf of Odyssey Maritime Exploration on regulations pertaining to the management of shipwrecks.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	215520
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2014 answer text <p>No representations have been received by DCMS from or on behalf of Odyssey Maritime Exploration on regulations pertaining to the management of shipwrecks.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 28/11/2014 10:33:05 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

156594

registered interest
date	19/11/2014
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 recent conversation he has had with Ofcom on the introduction of a gaining provider-led switching system in the mobile sector.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	215197
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2014 answer text <p>DCMS officials have frequent contact with Ofcom to take forward this work. I want the switching process to be as easy and straightforward as possible for consumers and I recognise that switching processes work better for consumers when only one call needs to be made for the switch to happen, to the gaining provider. Working with Ofcom, we will do everything we can to move towards a system of gaining-provider led switching across the board.</p><p>In July, Ofcom published a call for inputs (which closed in September) on switching providers of broadband, pay-TV, mobile voice and data services and bundled services, in order to gauge the impact of these processes on consumers’ experience and on competition. Ofcom is conducting further research and holding discussions with industry and consumer organisations. It will publish a document setting out its findings in the first half of 2015.</p><p>We set out our thinking on GPL switching in the Connectivity, Content and Consumers [CCC} Strategy Paper, published in July 2013. In December 2013 Ofcom announced that GPL switching would be mandated for broadband and fixed telephony over the Openreach network. Full implementation of this will be completed by June 2015. Since then, Ofcom has been assessing the consumer experience of switching mobile services, pay-TV and bundles of electronic communications services and will report in the first half of 2015, as I describe above.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey grouped question UIN 215198 215247 question first answered 26/11/2014 16:54:31 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

156595

registered interest
date	19/11/2014
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 recent assessment he has made of the potential effect on consumers of the implementation of a gaining provider-led switching system in the mobile sector.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	215198
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2014 answer text <p>DCMS officials have frequent contact with Ofcom to take forward this work. I want the switching process to be as easy and straightforward as possible for consumers and I recognise that switching processes work better for consumers when only one call needs to be made for the switch to happen, to the gaining provider. Working with Ofcom, we will do everything we can to move towards a system of gaining-provider led switching across the board.</p><p>In July, Ofcom published a call for inputs (which closed in September) on switching providers of broadband, pay-TV, mobile voice and data services and bundled services, in order to gauge the impact of these processes on consumers’ experience and on competition. Ofcom is conducting further research and holding discussions with industry and consumer organisations. It will publish a document setting out its findings in the first half of 2015.</p><p>We set out our thinking on GPL switching in the Connectivity, Content and Consumers [CCC} Strategy Paper, published in July 2013. In December 2013 Ofcom announced that GPL switching would be mandated for broadband and fixed telephony over the Openreach network. Full implementation of this will be completed by June 2015. Since then, Ofcom has been assessing the consumer experience of switching mobile services, pay-TV and bundles of electronic communications services and will report in the first half of 2015, as I describe above.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey grouped question UIN 215197 215247 question first answered 26/11/2014 16:54:32 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

156596

registered interest
date	19/11/2014
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 steps his Department has taken to support the introduction of gaining provider-led switching systems since the publication of his Department's report, Connectivity, Content and Consumers in July 2013.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	215247
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2014 answer text <p>DCMS officials have frequent contact with Ofcom to take forward this work. I want the switching process to be as easy and straightforward as possible for consumers and I recognise that switching processes work better for consumers when only one call needs to be made for the switch to happen, to the gaining provider. Working with Ofcom, we will do everything we can to move towards a system of gaining-provider led switching across the board.</p><p>In July, Ofcom published a call for inputs (which closed in September) on switching providers of broadband, pay-TV, mobile voice and data services and bundled services, in order to gauge the impact of these processes on consumers’ experience and on competition. Ofcom is conducting further research and holding discussions with industry and consumer organisations. It will publish a document setting out its findings in the first half of 2015.</p><p>We set out our thinking on GPL switching in the Connectivity, Content and Consumers [CCC} Strategy Paper, published in July 2013. In December 2013 Ofcom announced that GPL switching would be mandated for broadband and fixed telephony over the Openreach network. Full implementation of this will be completed by June 2015. Since then, Ofcom has been assessing the consumer experience of switching mobile services, pay-TV and bundles of electronic communications services and will report in the first half of 2015, as I describe above.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey grouped question UIN 215197 215198 question first answered 26/11/2014 16:54:32 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

156620

registered interest
date	19/11/2014
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: Complaints
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what access arrangements are in place for broadband subscribers to make complaints via Openreach about poor quality of service.
tabling member constituency	Hornchurch and Upminster
tabling member printed	Dame Angela Watkinson
uin	215154
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2014 answer text <p>Complaints about poor service should be directed to the communications provider who supplies the broadband service and that customers have a contractual relationship with. Openreach is not a customer-facing organisation; it was created to offer all communications providers providing retail broadband and telephone services equality of access to BT's network.</p><p>Openreach is accountable to communications providers to meet its responsibilities to manage the local access network infrastructure that connects customers to their local telephone exchange. Communications providers have a duty of care to manage consumer complaints and ensure that Openreach provides a high quality service.</p><p>Customers who are dissatisfied with the handling of their complaint by communications providers have the option of an alternative dispute resolution (ADR) scheme. An ADR Scheme is an independent system of redress for customers who feel they have been poorly or unreasonably dealt with by a communications service provider. Ofcom, the independent telecommunications regulator, requires all communications providers to be a member of such a scheme.</p><p>Since 1 July Ofcom has applied new rules to bring about faster line repairs and installations for telephone and broadband customers. As a minimum Openreach must, over the course of a given year:</p><p>• Complete 80% of fault repairs within one to two working days of being notified, irrespective of factors such as severe weather conditions.</p><p>• Provide an appointment for 80% of new line installations within 12 working days of being notified, irrespective of factors such as severe weather conditions.</p><p>• Ensure it adheres to these new standards across the country.</p><p>• Provide data on repairs and installations that are not completed within this timeframe. This information will allow Ofcom to monitor Openreach’s performance closely and intervene further if required, as this includes the ability to impose fines if necessary.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 26/11/2014 16:56:16 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	1462 label Biography information for Dame Angela Watkinson