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registered interest
date	07/07/2015
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	Sports: Females
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to encourage corporations to sponsor women’s football teams and other initiatives.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL1156
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2015 answer text <p>The Women and Sport Advisory Board convened under the 2010-2015 coalition Government identified commercial investment in women’s sport as one of the themes for wider consideration in its final report, published March 2015. This Government wishes to look more widely at how it can make sport financially sustainable, and women’s sport, including women’s football, forms part of this work. The Minister for Sport and Tourism held a round-table session with representatives from National Governing Bodies, media bodies, sponsorship agencies, brands and a consultancy specialising in data intelligence in order to discuss the issues further. The findings will feed into the forthcoming Sport Strategy.</p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 21/07/2015 14:50:41 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

388091

registered interest
date	07/07/2015
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: Fees and Charges
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 the Government is taking to reduce mobile telephone charges for UK users using their telephones overseas.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	5902
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2015 answer text <p>I am pleased to confirm that formal agreement was reached at the end of June on the EU Telecoms Single Market Regulation. As a result, from June 2017 onwards, consumers will no longer face mobile roaming charges in the EU. This outcome is one that Government has consistently championed from the beginning of negotiations.</p><p>As an interim measure, from January 2016 until June 2017, consumers will continue to pay mobile roaming charges in the EU at rates calculated from the domestic tariffs plus the wholesale roaming caps currently in force. These rates will be comparable with, or lower than, existing caps. UK mobile service providers may offer roaming tariffs below these rates, as several of them do already.</p><p>The eventual cessation of mobile roaming charges, will mean that British citizens travelling abroad can enjoy using their mobile without fear of extortionate costs.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 16/07/2015 17:08:34 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

388134

registered interest
date	07/07/2015
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	Cycling: Calderdale
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 he has to promote cycling as a recreational activity in Calderdale.
tabling member constituency	Calder Valley
tabling member printed	Craig Whittaker
uin	5761
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2015 answer text <p>Between 2014 and 2016, over £118,000 will have been invested by British Cycling and Calderdale council to get more people cycling in Calderdale. Calderdale is also part of the West Yorkshire Tour de France legacy, which is working with partners from sport, transport and health to get more people cycling in the local area. Further, in February 2015, the Government committed further funding to British Cycling to improve facilities in Yorkshire.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 23/07/2015 16:56:00 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	3940 label Biography information for Craig Whittaker

388135

registered interest
date	07/07/2015
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	Television Licences: Older People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will publish the full text of the agreement he reached with the BBC that the BBC will fund the provision of TV Licences for those age over 75, announced on 6 July 2015.
tabling member constituency	Rhondda
tabling member printed	Chris Bryant
uin	5837
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2015 answer text <p>The full text of the agreement reached between the BBC and the government on funding of the over-75s free television licences has been published on the Gov.uk website, and can be found using the following link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/443735/Letter_from_George_Osborne_and_John_Whittingdale_to_Tony_Hall_FINAL.PDF" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/443735/Letter_from_George_Osborne_and_John_Whittingdale_to_Tony_Hall_FINAL.PDF</a></p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 14/07/2015 14:29:20 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	1446 label Biography information for Sir Chris Bryant

388136

registered interest
date	07/07/2015
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	Television Licences: Older People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will publish a financial assessment of the effect on the public purse and the BBC agreement announced on 6 July 2015 that the BBC will fund the provision of TV Licences for those age over 75.
tabling member constituency	Rhondda
tabling member printed	Chris Bryant
uin	5838
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2015 answer text <p>The financial assessment of the impact on the public purse of the agreement with the BBC to take on responsibility for funding over-75s free television licences announced on 6 July 2015 has been published in the Office For Budget Responsibility’s Economic and Fiscal Outlook, July 2015. Tables 4.13 and 4.14 on pages 110 and 111 and paragraphs 4.128 and 4.129 on page 136 detail changes in the BBC’s expenditure since the March 2015 forecast. The information can be found using the following link: <a href="http://cdn.budgetresponsibility.independent.gov.uk/July-2015-EFO-234224.pdf" target="_blank">http://cdn.budgetresponsibility.independent.gov.uk/July-2015-EFO-234224.pdf</a>. The impact on the Exchequer has been published in the Summer Budget 2015: policy costings document, on page 61 of the following link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/443195/Policy_costings_summer_budget_2015.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/443195/Policy_costings_summer_budget_2015.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 14/07/2015 14:28:26 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	1446 label Biography information for Sir Chris Bryant

388137

registered interest
date	07/07/2015
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	Gambling
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will take steps to ensure that (a) high stakes gambling takes place only in (i) casinos and (ii) other highly supervised premises, (b) Fixed Odds Betting Terminals are not located in bookmakers and (c) casinos have more appropriate numbers of slot machines.
tabling member constituency	The Wrekin
tabling member printed	Mark Pritchard
uin	5799
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2015 answer text <p>High stakes gambling’ is a relative term and may be open to different interpretation. The Gambling Act 2005 and associated regulations establish the types and levels of gambling permitted in a range of licensed environments and the controls required to be put in place to keep that gambling fair and safe for all.</p><p> </p><p>Regardless of the level of stakes, the Gambling Commission requires all operators providing facilities for gambling to adhere to the licence conditions and codes of practice relevant to their activity designed to minimise harm generated by gambling.</p><p> </p><p>Under the 2005 Act fixed odds betting terminals are permitted in casinos and bookmakers. High street betting shops are limited to four machines per premises. The Act also set the current gaming machine entitlements for casinos.</p><p> </p><p>The Government recently introduced new regulations in April which ended unsupervised stakes above £50 on FOBTs in betting shops. We will want to assess the impact of these measures before we consider any further legislative options.</p><p><br>Any discussion about changes to gaming machine entitlements in casinos would need to be accompanied by robust proposals from the industry for managing any additional risk of harm to players that may arise.</p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 23/07/2015 12:37:30 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
tabling member	1576 label Biography information for Mark Pritchard

388138

registered interest
date	07/07/2015
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	Television Licences: Older People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will publish all correspondence he has had with the BBC on the agreement announced on 6 July 2015 that the BBC will fund the provision of television licences for those aged over 75.
tabling member constituency	Rhondda
tabling member printed	Chris Bryant
uin	5820
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2015 answer text <p>Correspondence on the agreement has been published on the BBC’s website and the BBC Trust's website (here: <a href="http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/tony-hall-letter-coe-sscms.pdf" target="_blank">http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/tony-hall-letter-coe-sscms.pdf</a>; <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/news/press_releases/2015/chancellor_sos" target="_blank">http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/news/press_releases/2015/chancellor_sos</a>).</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 23/07/2015 17:02:22 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	1446 label Biography information for Sir Chris Bryant

388139

registered interest
date	07/07/2015
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 Broadcasting: Radio
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 quality of DAB radio coverage in Wales; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Bridgend
tabling member printed	Mrs Madeleine Moon
uin	5818
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2015 answer text <p>The Government, BBC and commercial radio are jointly funding the long term expansion of the local DAB network across the UK with the building of 182 new digital transmitters and modifications and frequency changes at a further 49 sites by the end of September 2016. Ofcom has published detailed maps outlining the improvements to coverage in local areas across the UK. As a result of this new investment, according to Ofcom, it is expected that local DAB coverage in Wales will increase from 63% to 85.4% of households and from 46.7% to 66.3% of major roads.</p><p> </p><p>Separately the BBC is rolling out its national DAB network to a further 162 transmitter sites across the UK by the end of 2015<strong>. </strong>This programme will increase the coverage of its DAB network in Wales from 86% to 92% of homes.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 23/07/2015 17:00:38 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	1490 label Biography information for Mrs Madeleine Moon

388140

registered interest
date	07/07/2015
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: Competition
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 he is taking to ensure competition between broadband infrastructure providers.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Neil Carmichael
uin	5784
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/07/2015 answer text <p>Ensuring there is competitive broadband market is a matter for Ofcom, although the Government has a keen interest in an efficient and effective market, capable of delivering users the level of service they require. Ofcom regularly monitors and regulates competition in electronic communications markets through market reviews. In June 2014 Ofcom published a Statement on its Fixed Access Market Reviews 2014 and announced a number of changes designed to promote competition in the markets. The Regulator also announced in March this year a Strategic Review of Digital Communications in the UK, in order to assess future issues around infrastructure and competition.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 29/07/2015 15:39:14 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	4104 label Biography information for Neil Carmichael

388141

registered interest
date	07/07/2015
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	Sports: Governing Bodies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what proportion of members of national sports governing bodies are women.
tabling member constituency	Rhondda
tabling member printed	Chris Bryant
uin	5792
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2015 answer text <p>Sport England does not hold the demographic data for national sports governing body members. However, the organisation Women in Sport collects data regarding the executive board members of national sports governing bodies and the proportion who are female in their regular report ‘Trophy Women’. When the first report was published in 2009, 20% of board members across NGBs were female and one quarter of NGBs had no women in their board positions. The most recent figures shown an improvement – in 2014 27% of board members across NGBs are female and the number of NGBs with no women in board positions has reduced to 3.</p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 22/07/2015 12:13:33 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
tabling member	1446 label Biography information for Sir Chris Bryant