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223573

registered interest
date	25/02/2015
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, whether there is a limit on the number of stations on a digital audio multiplex aimed at the same section of the listening audience.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	225381
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2015 answer text <p>Digital broadcasting services are regulated by Ofcom, the independent broadcasting regulator. Ofcom, is responsible for the licensing of digital radio multiplexes and for ensuring that a licence holder complies with the conditions of their licence.</p><p> </p><p>Ofcom is required under legislation, among other things, to further the interests of consumers in relevant markets, where appropriate by promoting competition and to secure the availability throughout the UK of a wide range of television and radio services which (taken as a whole) are both of high quality and calculated to appeal to a variety of tastes and interests.</p><p> </p><p>When considering an application to operate a digital radio multiplex or in the instance where an existing licence holder of a digital radio multiplex is seeking a change to the services broadcasting on the multiplex. Ofcom will take account of a digital radio multiplex licence holder’s ensemble of digital sound programme services as a whole when considering whether such services appeal to a wide variety of tastes and interests. This would not necessarily preclude a digital radio multiplex operator from including in their ensemble digital sound programme services which are of the same or a similar genre and/or appeal to the same or a similar demographic group.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 02/03/2015 15:31:03 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

223574

registered interest
date	25/02/2015
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	Freeview Service
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 make an assessment of the (a) representation of BME programming and channels available on Freeview and (b) the barriers to BME channels being on Freeview.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	225472
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2015 answer text <p>The Government is interested in the fair representation of BAME people in the media and on television and we are pleased to note that the Creative Diversity Network is developing a monitoring system, Project Diamond, to collect standardised and comparable diversity data on-screen and off-screen. Project Diamond is due to start collecting data later in the year.</p><p>In addition, the Communications Act includes a duty on Ofcom to periodically assess the extent to which public service broadcasting purposes and objectives are being met by all the PSB channels taken together. The purposes and objectives include meeting the needs and satisfying the interests of as many different audiences as practicable; and providing a sufficient quantity of programmes that reflect the lives and concerns of different communities and cultural interests and traditions within the United Kingdom, and locally in different parts of the United Kingdom.</p><p>On the selection of programming and channels on Freeview, it is for individual channels serving different BAME communities to take a commercial view about whether or not to broadcast their services on Freeview and to then seek carriage from the digital terrestrial TV multiplex operator and a digital television service programme licence from Ofcom. Prospective channels can apply for a UK broadcasting licence from Ofcom, provided they meet the statutory criteria. Channels that mainly serve the BAME community have tended to broadcast on pay platforms, particularly satellite, rather than Freeview, as this gives them access to subscription revenues as well as from advertising and programme sponsorship.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 02/03/2015 15:32:59 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

223228

registered interest
date	24/02/2015
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	Advertising
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much his Department has spent on advertising on Classic FM in each of the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Wrexham
tabling member printed	Ian Lucas
uin	225228
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2015 answer text <p>The release of this information would prejudice commercial interests.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 27/02/2015 09:55:57 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	1470 label Biography information for Ian C. Lucas

223229

registered interest
date	24/02/2015
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	Advertising
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much his Department has spent on advertising on regional commercial radio stations in each of the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Wrexham
tabling member printed	Ian Lucas
uin	225229
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2015 answer text <p>The Department has spent £569,000 on advertising on regional commercial stations broken down as follows:</p><p> </p><p>£269,000 to promote broadband connection vouchers in eligible cities (November-December 2014)</p><p>£300,000 as part of the government’s £8 million superfast broadband awareness campaign (February 2015)</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 27/02/2015 09:56:32 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	1470 label Biography information for Ian C. Lucas

222740

registered interest
date	23/02/2015
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	Cultural Heritage: Export Controls
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government who had ultimate responsibility for the granting of an export licence to the 1942 Alan Turing notebook to be auctioned in New York by Bonhams on 13 April; why that licence was unconditional; and which experts were consulted in making that determination.
tabling member printed	Lord Sharkey
uin	HL5081
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2015 answer text <p>Under UK export licensing procedures, archives produced more than 50 years before the date of export, require an export licence. An export licence for Alan Turing’s notebook was issued by the Export Licensing Unit of the Arts Council, on behalf of the Secretary of State, on 29 July 2014, having first obtained expert advice on its national importance. It is not Departmental practice to release the names of expert advisers.</p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 02/03/2015 14:41:58 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	4196 label Biography information for Lord Sharkey

222744

registered interest
date	23/02/2015
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	Libraries
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the impact of library closures on educational standards across the United Kingdom.
tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of St Albans
uin	HL5085
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2015 answer text <p>The DCMS has not made any assessment of the impact of library closures on educational standards across the United Kingdom. Every Library Authority has a duty to provide a comprehensive and efficient library service.</p> answering member printed Baroness Jolly question first answered 26/02/2015 17:03:55 answering member 4203 label Biography information for Baroness Jolly
tabling member	4308 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of St Albans

222898

registered interest
date	23/02/2015
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	Apprentices
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many apprentices employed by (a) his Department and (b) its executive agencies and associated bodies are aged (i) 16 to 18, (ii) 19 to 24 and (iii) 25 years or older; and how many of those apprentices employed in each form of body and of each age group were previously employed by the Government.
tabling member constituency	Streatham
tabling member printed	Mr Chuka Umunna
uin	225063
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2015 answer text <p>a) The numbers of apprentices employed by Department for Culture, Media and Sport, which includes GEO, are shown in the table below by age:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td>Age</td><td><p>Number of Apprentices</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>i) 16 – 18 years old</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>ii) 19 – 24 years old</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>iii) 25 years &amp; older</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><br> No apprentices were previously employed by the Government.</p><p> </p><p>b). The Royal Parks Agency (TRP) is an executive agency of the Department for Culture,Media and Sport and as an organisation does not employ any apprentices directly.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We do not hold information for our arm’s length bodies.</p> answering member constituency Maidstone and The Weald answering member printed Mrs Helen Grant question first answered 27/02/2015 10:20:58 answering member 4018 label Biography information for Mrs Helen Grant
tabling member	4128 label Biography information for Chuka Umunna

222899

registered interest
date	23/02/2015
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: Wales
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many fibre broadband hub stations there are in each local government area in Wales; how many such hubs are live; and what the expected roll-out date is for each station.
tabling member constituency	Delyn
tabling member printed	Mr David Hanson
uin	224961
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2015 answer text <p>Superfast broadband coverage in Wales has now reached over 1 million premises, over two-thirds of the total in Wales. 345,000 premises have gained coverage as a result of the Superfast Cymru broadband programme which has funding from the UK government, Welsh Government and European funds.</p><p> </p><p>The contract for Superfast Cymru is not based on delivery of cabinet or exchange upgrades, but instead requires target numbers of premises able to access superfast broadband. A list of exchanges and deployment status by local authority area is available on the Superfast Cymru website: <a href="http://www.superfast-cymru.com/where-and-when" target="_blank">http://www.superfast-cymru.com/where-and-when</a></p><p><br>Openreach publishes a list of exchanges accepting orders which can be searched at: <a href="https://www.superfast-openreach.co.uk/where-and-when/" target="_blank">https://www.superfast-openreach.co.uk/where-and-when/</a></p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 27/02/2015 11:24:51 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	533 label Biography information for Lord Hanson of Flint

222900

registered interest
date	23/02/2015
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: Ashford
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 adequacy of provision of broadband in the rural areas of Ashford constituency; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Ashford
tabling member printed	Damian Green
uin	224847
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2015 answer text <p>Superfast broadband coverage in the Ashford constituency is expected to be around 92 per cent at the end of phase 2 of the superfast broadband programme, subject to agreement of a phase 2 contract by Kent County Council. It is also dependent on the extent of any practical delivery issues encountered during deployment of both publicly-funded and privately-funded superfast broadband networks.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, 1,975 premises in rural Ashford and Shepway will gain coverage as a result of an additional £1,593,509 of government funding to Kent for rural community projects.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 27/02/2015 11:24:26 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	76 label Biography information for Damian Green

222901

registered interest
date	23/02/2015
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what additional funding his Department is making available to ensure that the remaining 10 per cent of premises get superfast broadband access.
tabling member constituency	Kettering
tabling member printed	Mr Philip Hollobone
uin	224924
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2015 answer text <p>The Government has allocated £250m funding to increase superfast broadband from 90 per cent to 95 per cent of premises by 2017, with local match funding, as part of phase 2 of the Superfast Broadband programme. The Government has also created a £10 million fund to invest in pilot projects to explore options for delivery to the remaining premises.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 26/02/2015 08:24:01 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	1537 label Biography information for Mr Philip Hollobone