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723811

registered interest
date	24/04/2017
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	LIFE
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, for what reasons £250 million was provided from the Tampon Tax Fund for the Life charity; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	71725
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2017 answer text <p>Life Charity submitted a project proposal to support vulnerable women in west London, requesting £250,000. Life Charity’s bid described a project that would help vulnerable, homeless or at risk women (for example, those escaping abuse or trafficking) who are pregnant and have nowhere to turn.</p><p>We will shortly agree the specifics of each of the 70 projects that successfully applied to the Tampon Tax Fund this year, to ensure that taxpayers' money is put to the best use. We will only make grants where we are 100% certain that they align with the aims of the fund.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Reading East answering member printed Mr Rob Wilson question first answered 27/04/2017 08:03:26 answering member 1556 label Biography information for Mr Rob Wilson
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

723812

registered interest
date	24/04/2017
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	Sanitary Products: VAT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how the Tampon Tax Fund will address period poverty; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	71708
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2017 answer text <p>The Tampon Tax Fund aims to support projects that improve the lives of disadvantaged women and girls across the UK. It is not designed to specifically address period poverty.</p><p> </p><p>We will shortly agree the specifics of each of the 70 projects that successfully applied to the Tampon Tax Fund this year, to ensure that taxpayers' money is put to the best use. We will only make grants where we are 100% certain that they align with the aims of the fund.</p><p> </p><p>All applications into the fund were assessed by officials against three criteria: evidence for the need of the project: the organisation’s ability to deliver; and the sustainability/impact of the project, and were then vetted by officials before they were signed off.</p> answering member constituency Reading East answering member printed Mr Rob Wilson question first answered 26/04/2017 14:38:39 answering member 1556 label Biography information for Mr Rob Wilson
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

723813

registered interest
date	24/04/2017
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	LIFE
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 20 April 2017 to Question HL6582, whether the Minister for Civil Society or another Minister made the decision to award the charity Life £250,000 from the Tampon Tax Fund; what her Department's scrutiny process for that decision was; and what representations she received on the appropriateness of that award before that decision was announced.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
uin	71768
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2017 answer text <p>We will shortly finalise the specifics of the grant agreements for each of the 70 projects that successfully applied to the Tampon Tax Fund this year, to ensure that taxpayers' money is put to the best use. We will only make grants where we are 100% certain that they align fully with the aims of the fund. The final decision will be made by the Minister for Civil Society.</p><p> </p><p>All applications into the fund were assessed by officials against three criteria: evidence for the need of the project: the organisation’s ability to deliver; and the sustainability/impact of the project, and were then vetted by officials before they were signed off.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Reading East answering member printed Mr Rob Wilson question first answered 27/04/2017 08:07:12 answering member 1556 label Biography information for Mr Rob Wilson
tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff

722969

registered interest
date	20/04/2017
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	Jainism
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what plans she has to invite representatives of the Jain community to attend memorial events to mark Remembrance Day; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Harrow West
tabling member printed	Gareth Thomas
uin	71420
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2017 answer text <p>There are no plans at present to make any changes to the representative attendance at the Remembrance Sunday Cenotaph service.</p><p> </p><p>The Ceremony is organised in such a way as to represent all those wishing to pay their respects and recognise all who fought and died for their country. The wreath laid by Her Majesty The Queen is done so on behalf of the whole nation, and is dedicated to all those who have suffered and died in war.</p> answering member constituency Reading East answering member printed Mr Rob Wilson question first answered 25/04/2017 12:39:14 answering member 1556 label Biography information for Mr Rob Wilson
tabling member	177 label Biography information for Gareth Thomas

722443

registered interest
date	19/04/2017
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	LIFE
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 made of the charity, Life's patient information literature before awarding it a grant from the Tampon Tax Fund.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	71353
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2017 answer text <p>We will shortly agree the specifics of each of the 70 projects that successfully applied to the Tampon Tax Fund this year, to ensure that taxpayers' money is put to the best use. We will only make grants where we are 100% certain that they align with the aims of the fund.</p><p> </p><p>All applications into the fund were assessed by officials against three criteria: evidence for the need of the project: the organisation’s ability to deliver; and the sustainability/impact of the project, and were then vetted by officials before they were signed off.</p> answering member constituency Reading East answering member printed Mr Rob Wilson grouped question UIN 71354 question first answered 26/04/2017 14:44:44 answering member 1556 label Biography information for Mr Rob Wilson
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

722444

registered interest
date	19/04/2017
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	LIFE
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 made of the charity, Life's safeguarding policies and procedures before awarding it a grant from the Tampon Tax Fund.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	71354
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2017 answer text <p>We will shortly agree the specifics of each of the 70 projects that successfully applied to the Tampon Tax Fund this year, to ensure that taxpayers' money is put to the best use. We will only make grants where we are 100% certain that they align with the aims of the fund.</p><p> </p><p>All applications into the fund were assessed by officials against three criteria: evidence for the need of the project: the organisation’s ability to deliver; and the sustainability/impact of the project, and were then vetted by officials before they were signed off.</p> answering member constituency Reading East answering member printed Mr Rob Wilson grouped question UIN 71353 question first answered 26/04/2017 14:44:44 answering member 1556 label Biography information for Mr Rob Wilson
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

722568

registered interest
date	19/04/2017
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	LIFE
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether she received representations on concerns relating to the application made by the charity, Life for funding from the Tampon Tax Fund.
tabling member constituency	Rotherham
tabling member printed	Sarah Champion
uin	71346
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2017 answer text <p>The Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) administers the Tampon Tax Fund. Since the announcement in late March of the 70 projects that successfully applied to the Tampon Tax Fund this year, DCMS has received correspondence from the public and letters from Members of Parliament regarding matters raised with them by their constituents, as well as a petition organised by the group 38 Degrees. This correspondence also included letters supporting the award of the grant.</p> answering member constituency Reading East answering member printed Mr Rob Wilson question first answered 26/04/2017 16:43:40 answering member 1556 label Biography information for Mr Rob Wilson
tabling member	4267 label Biography information for Sarah Champion

722072

registered interest
date	18/04/2017
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	LIFE
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether the funding recently allocated from the Tampon Tax Fund to the Life charity will exclusively be spent on young homeless women who are pregnant.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	71100
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2017 answer text <p>We will shortly agree the specifics of each of the 70 projects that successfully applied to the Tampon Tax Fund this year, to ensure that taxpayers' money is put to the best use. We will only make grants where we are 100% certain that they align with the aims of the fund.</p> answering member constituency Reading East answering member printed Mr Rob Wilson grouped question UIN 71120 71122 71123 71170 71186 question first answered 26/04/2017 09:30:49 answering member 1556 label Biography information for Mr Rob Wilson
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

722192

registered interest
date	18/04/2017
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	LIFE
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will review the decision to award the anti-abortion charity, Life, a grant from the Tampon Tax Fund.
tabling member constituency	Rotherham
tabling member printed	Sarah Champion
uin	71186
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2017 answer text <p>We will shortly agree the specifics of each of the 70 projects that successfully applied to the Tampon Tax Fund this year, to ensure that taxpayers' money is put to the best use. We will only make grants where we are 100% certain that they align with the aims of the fund.</p> answering member constituency Reading East answering member printed Mr Rob Wilson grouped question UIN 71100 71120 71122 71123 71170 question first answered 26/04/2017 09:30:49 answering member 1556 label Biography information for Mr Rob Wilson
tabling member	4267 label Biography information for Sarah Champion

722193

registered interest
date	18/04/2017
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	Department for Culture, Media and Sport: Young People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what (a) staff, at what salary cost, and (b) other resources have been committed by her Department in preparing the forthcoming Youth Policy Statement.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	71202
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2017 answer text <p>My department has allocated around a third of the full time equivalent (FTE) of a Band A and half of a FTE Band B staff to work on the Youth Policy Statement since November 2016. This has included engaging with young people and the youth sector through a series of workshops. The proportion of time staff spent on the Youth Policy Statement is subject to change as the work develops.</p> answering member constituency Reading East answering member printed Mr Rob Wilson grouped question UIN 70881 question first answered 24/04/2017 14:17:45 answering member 1556 label Biography information for Mr Rob Wilson
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith