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964136

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date	03/09/2018
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	Tourism: Nottinghamshire
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 recent steps his Department has taken to promote Nottinghamshire as a tourist destination overseas.
tabling member constituency	Mansfield
tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
uin	169836
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2018 answer text <p>VisitBritain and VisitEngland are responsible for promoting the UK as a tourist destination, through a range of different initiatives and campaigns.</p><p> </p><p>VisitEngland are also in charge of the £40m Discover England Fund which creates innovative, bookable tourism products throughout England which are aimed at specific international markets. These include:<br></p><ul><li>Creating England’s Literary Legends which is being led by Visit Nottinghamshire to provide bookable, literary-themed itineraries for US travellers to explore the vast literary history of Nottinghamshire, Hampshire and Shakespeare’ England.</li><li>The East of England Touring Route seeks to create a 300 mile touring route from London to Northumberland.</li></ul><p> </p><p>VisitBritain has also used Nottinghamshire in articles in their Media Centre such as Britain: The Movie Star and Spotlight On: The Midlands and in 2018, one of their multi-national press trips focused on the Nottingham areas, promoting the region to over 8 million readers of the press publications.</p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis question first answered 11/09/2018 14:24:21 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley

964387

registered interest
date	03/09/2018
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	Travel: Single People
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 equality assessment of the single person’s travel supplement.
tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
uin	169181
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2018 answer text <p>The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and the Office of Fair Trading have examined the question of single person supplements and concluded that wherever there is a reasonable economic case for such charges, decisions should be primarily a matter for the industry.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis question first answered 11/09/2018 14:23:10 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

964388

registered interest
date	03/09/2018
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	Slavery: Anniversaries
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 plans to commemorate the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Preston
tabling member printed	Sir Mark Hendrick
uin	169030
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2018 answer text <p>The National Museums Liverpool, an Arms Length Body (ALB) of DCMS, through our International Slavery Museum, has run events and activities on this date since 1999. These include the annual Dorothy Kuya Slavery Remembrance Lecture, given in 2018 by Gina Belafonte, civil rights activist and daughter of Harry Belafonte. Additionally the Museums hold an annual walk of remembrance and libation ceremony and a range of educational activities in the International Slavery Museum and around the Royal Albert Dock.</p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis question first answered 11/09/2018 14:21:33 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick

964606

registered interest
date	03/09/2018
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	Arts
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 (a) financial and (b) other support his Department provides to the creative arts industry.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
uin	169579
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2018 answer text <p>The government strongly believes in the benefits that the arts and creative industries can bring to the UK, both in terms of their social and economic impact. The main way the government supports the sector is through it’s continued investment into the Arts Council England who between 2018 and 2022, will invest £1.45 billion of public money from government and an estimated £860 million from the National Lottery.</p><p> </p><p>The government has also introduced the theatre and orchestra tax reliefs, among others, to support productions, especially through touring.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis question first answered 11/09/2018 14:18:12 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

964607

registered interest
date	03/09/2018
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	Arts
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 recent estimate his Department has made of the contribution of the creative arts industry to the economy of (a) London and (b) the UK.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
uin	169580
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2018 answer text <p>The arts and creative industries sectors continue to be of vital importance to the UK economy. In the latest estimates published by the department, the creative industries contributed £47 billion to the economy of London and £92 billion to the UK economy in 2016. All published economic estimates for the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/dcms-sectors-economic-estimates</p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis question first answered 11/09/2018 14:20:04 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft