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884882

registered interest
date	16/04/2018
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	Theatres: Closures
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 trends in the number of theatres that have closed in the UK since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	135870
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2018 answer text <p>We do not hold data on trends of theatre closures.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 19/04/2018 09:36:55 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

882406

registered interest
date	13/04/2018
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	Broadband
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 made an assessment of the potential merits of launching a new scheme, similar to Project Lightning, to ensure that more homes can provide usable broadband.
tabling member constituency	Stockton South
tabling member printed	Dr Paul Williams
uin	135468
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2018 answer text <p>The Department welcomes commercial investment in UK digital infrastructure such as Virgin Media’s Project Lightning and is working to encourage further investment through policies and funding. These include Business Rates Relief for fibre investment and the £200m Local Full Fibre Networks programme to fund locally-led projects that leverage commercial investment in full fibre broadband connections. For alternative network providers, £400 million of public funding has also been made available for fibre connectivity through the Digital Infrastructure Investment Fund, which will unlock approximately £1 billion of private investment.</p><p> </p><p>Looking further ahead, the Future Telecoms Infrastructure Review is currently assessing what market models can best support broadband infrastructure investment in different areas of the UK.</p><p> </p><p>The Government’s existing £1.7bn Broadband Delivery UK programme reached 95% of premises in December 2017 and is continuing with at least a further 2% likely to be achieved, ensuring that over 97% of premises in the UK can receive superfast broadband.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 18/04/2018 15:23:23 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4666 label Biography information for Dr Paul Williams

882424

registered interest
date	13/04/2018
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	Broadband: Fees and Charges
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 ensure that the forthcoming Consumer Green Paper sets out provisions to ensure that broadband exit fees are charged at a rate that is fair to consumers.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
uin	135486
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2018 answer text <p>The Consumer Green Paper was published on 11 April. It seeks views on how to ensure that modern consumer markets work for all, both now and in the future, including in the telecoms sector. Government will consider the responses to the Consumer Green Paper and, working with independent regulators including Ofcom, will publish a response detailing how they plan to further protect customers.</p><p> </p><p><del class="ministerial">Currently, the Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Regulations 1999 protect broadband consumers when they enter into contracts with a provider. Ofcom has the power to investigate communicate providers' compliance.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">Currently, contracts entered into on or after 1 October 2015 are covered by the unfair terms in consumer contracts protections in the Consumer Rights Act 2015. There are also protections under Ofcom rules (GC9.3) to ensure that conditions or procedures for contract termination do not act as a disincentive against changing provider. Additionally, Ofcom has the power to investigate communication providers' compliance and have an open enforcement programme on early termination charges: https://www.ofcom.org.uk/about-ofcom/latest/bulletins/competition-bulletins/open-cases/cw_01199.</ins></p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 18/04/2018 15:27:54 question first ministerially corrected 23/04/2018 15:12:27 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James previous answer version 52496 answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly

873559

registered interest
date	28/03/2018
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	Data Protection
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 his policy is on companies that sell personal data to third parties.
tabling member constituency	Upper Bann
tabling member printed	David Simpson
uin	134673
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2018 answer text <p>The Government takes both the protection of personal data and the right to privacy extremely seriously. We expect all organisations to abide by the law when processing (including sharing or selling) personal data.</p><p> </p><p>The Data Protection Act 1998 has served us well and placed the UK at the front of global data protection standards. With the new Data Protection Bill, Government are modernising the data protection laws in the UK to make them fit for purpose for our increasingly digital economy and society. It will set new standards for protecting general data, in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), giving people more control over use of their data, and provide new rights to move or delete personal data. This new data protection regime will come into force on 25 May 2018.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 19/04/2018 15:27:44 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	1597 label Biography information for David Simpson

873787

registered interest
date	28/03/2018
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	Creative Industries Council: Trade Unions
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 the timescale is for the appointment of a trade union representative to the Creative Industries Council.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	134901
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/04/2018 answer text <p>The review of membership of the Creative Industries Council will take place later in the year. As stated in the previous answer, the review process is led by the Council’s industry co-Chair. Organisations and individuals interested in being involved in the Council’s work can do this through a range of council sub-groups, details of which can be found at www.thecreativeindustries.co.uk.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 16/04/2018 11:58:40 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

872608

registered interest
date	27/03/2018
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	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport: Official Hospitality
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 much money his Department has spent on hospitality in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh North and Leith
tabling member printed	Deidre Brock
uin	134422
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/04/2018 answer text <p>Hospitality figures for each of the last five financial years have been provided in the table below.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>2017/18</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>£16,994.41</p></td><td><p>£35,859.68</p></td><td><p>-£2,954.15</p></td><td><p>£19,280.11</p></td><td><p>£31,786.37</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The figure for 2015-16 is a negative figure due to the reversal of an over accrual from 2014-15.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 06/04/2018 09:31:36 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4417 label Biography information for Deidre Brock

872806

registered interest
date	27/03/2018
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	Cinemas and Theatres: Closures
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 many (a) theatres and (b) cinemas have closed in each constituency since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
uin	134619
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/04/2018 answer text <p>We do not hold the information requested.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 16/04/2018 11:55:55 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman

868455

registered interest
date	21/03/2018
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	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport: Buildings
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 20 March 2018 to Question 132087, on Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport: Buildings, what the annual cost of occupying those buildings is.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	133675
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/04/2018 answer text <p>The annual cost of our rented property is £ 1,312,214.</p><p> </p><p>The annual cost of buildings we occupy through agreements with other government departments is £10,152,449.</p><p> </p><p>The properties we occupying by agreement with other government departments represent better value for money for the tax payer.</p><p> </p><p>In acknowledgement of this fact we are scheduled to surrender the remaining commercial lease in favour of further co-location with government departments in alignment with the wider government estates strategy.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 16/04/2018 12:02:24 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett