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708920

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date	07/03/2017
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: Infrastructure
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 23 February 2017 to Question 64364, on broadband: infrastructure, if she will ask Ofcom or British Telecom to estimate the amount of copper line (a) laid and (b) refurbished by British Telecom in those years.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	66949
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2017 answer text <p>Ofcom does not have such an estimate. Levels of investment by BT in its Openreach network will be considered as part of Ofcom’s forthcoming Wholesale Local Access market review consultation.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 13/03/2017 14:25:22 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

708921

registered interest
date	07/03/2017
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	21st Century Fox: Sky
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 she has received on the proposed merger between 21st Century Fox and Sky.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	66922
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2017 answer text <p>We set out the representations that had been received in the oral statement the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport gave in the House of Commons on Monday 6th March. Hansard of the debate can be found following this link:</p><p>https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2017-03-06/debates/045187F9-4209-47B1-B7B9-BA1AD6473DCE/Sky21StCenturyFoxProposedMerger#debate-240030</p><p> </p><p>Representations received since then are being assessed and an update will be given in the week commencing 13th March.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 13/03/2017 16:59:02 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

708923

registered interest
date	07/03/2017
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	Digital Technology: Training
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 her Department has made of the number of people without the basic digital skills referred to in the report of the Science and Technology Committee, Digital Skills Crisis, HC 270, published on 13 June 2016, who will be able to access the measures announced in part two of her Department's 2017 Digital Strategy.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	66826
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2017 answer text <p>The UK Digital Strategy published on 1st March sets out that for the UK to be a world-leading digital economy that works for everyone, it is crucial that everyone has the digital skills they need to fully participate in society. Through the Digital Skills Entitlement we will ensure that adults who lack core digital skills can access specified basic digital skills training free of charge where it is made available as part of the publicly funded adult education offer. In the meantime the Government continues to support adults to improve their basic digital skills, both through funding through the Adult Education Budget for education providers to offer digital training as part of their education offer, and an additional programme with The Good Things Foundation that aims to educate adults with the very basic skills needed to be able to search confidently and safely online and access public services. Additionally to support the launch of the UK digital strategy, industry pledged to create more than 4 million new free digital skills training opportunities adding to a range of existing digital skills offers some of which were set out in the UK Digital Strategy.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 14/03/2017 16:25:17 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

708925

registered interest
date	07/03/2017
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	Digital Technology: Training
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 her Department has made of the potential geographical spread of the training referred to on page 9 of part two of her Department's Digital Strategy 2017 to be offered through the Barefoot Computing Project; and of what that training will consist.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	66828
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2017 answer text <p>Barefoot offers free teaching-resources and volunteer-led training workshops, designed to help primary school teachers get more confident when teaching computer science and computing skills. Barefoot is UK wide, and more than 1 million primary school children have benefitted from this training so far, and a further 500,000 will be reached by the end of the 2017/18 academic year.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 14/03/2017 16:24:05 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

708927

registered interest
date	07/03/2017
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	Digital Technology: Training
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 page 5 of part two of her Department's 2017 Digital Strategy, when the programme to ensure that adults who lack core digital skills can access specified basic digital skills training free of charge will be rolled out.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	66837
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2017 answer text <p>The legislation to underpin the new digital entitlement is being progressed as part of an amendment to the digital economy bill. Further timescales will be set out in due course. The Government continues to support adults to improve their basic digital skills, both through the Adult Education Budget for education providers to offer digital training as part of their education offer, and an additional programme with The Good Things Foundation that aims to educate adults with the very basic skills needed to be able to search confidently and safely online and access public services, which has supported 680,000 people since 2014.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 13/03/2017 17:01:10 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

708928

registered interest
date	07/03/2017
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	Digital Technology: Recruitment
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 the report of the Science and Technology Committee, Digital Skills Crisis, HC 270, published on 13 June 2016, what estimate her Department has made of the current requirement for additional workers to fill the digital skills gap.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	66838
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2017 answer text <p>We have made no such estimate.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 14/03/2017 13:13:03 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh