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392039

registered interest
date	22/07/2015
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	Marriage: Northern Ireland
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they intend to take action to secure the right of same-sex couples to marry in Northern Ireland, in the light of the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights on 21 July in <i>Oliari and Others v Italy</i>.
tabling member printed	Lord Lester of Herne Hill
uin	HL1794
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/07/2015 answer text <p>Within the United Kingdom’s constitutional arrangements, responsibility for legislating on the subject of marriage in relation to Northern Ireland has been devolved to the Northern Ireland Assembly and any change in the law is a matter for that Assembly. The situation in Italy is not comparable with the situation in Northern Ireland where civil partnerships are available to same-sex couples. Italy provides no legal recognition of same-sex relationships either through a civil union/registered partnership or through marriage.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 31/07/2015 11:47:25 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	2037 label Biography information for Lord Lester of Herne Hill

391942

registered interest
date	21/07/2015
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: Internet
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Neville-Rolfe on 20 July (HL1072), in the light of imminent decisions regarding the BBC's Charter, why they have made no estimate of when television will be delivered predominantly across the internet.
tabling member printed	Lord Inglewood
uin	HL1705
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/07/2015 answer text <p>The Government’s BBC Charter Review public consultation is open until 8 October and no decisions on the BBC’s Charter are imminent. <strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Further to my answer of 20 July to Question HL1072, there is already a range of industry research on the future of television distribution and a wide variety of views about migration to internet protocol distribution of television services. This includes the 'Future of Innovation in Television Technology Report,' which DCMS officials contributed to, and which was published by the cross-television industry Digital Television Group in May 2014.</p><p> </p><p>In May 2014, Ofcom's discussion document ‘The Future of Free to View TV’, also considered which trends that might make universal distribution of internet protocol television possible. In the statement on the future of 700Mhz spectrum, Ofcom concluded that: 'digital terrestrial television is likely to retain this central role over the next decade, with a full switch to alternative technologies such as IPTV not appearing until at least 2030'.</p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 29/07/2015 09:44:24 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
tabling member	1980 label Biography information for Lord Inglewood

391961

registered interest
date	21/07/2015
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	Females: Financial Services
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, in the light of the recent remarks by the Minister for Women and Equalities, how they respond to the reports that only one in 10 fund managers is a woman.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL1724
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/07/2015 answer text <p>We are taking action to increase the numbers of women at senior levels in a wide range of roles and sectors. There are now no all-male boards in the FTSE 100. Women now account for 25.3% of FTSE 100 directors, which is up from 12.5% in February 2011.</p><p> </p><p>We are working through the Women's Business Council (WBC) to drive this culture change, raising girls' aspirations through Your Life campaign and removing as many barriers as we can to enable women to thrive in their chosen careers.</p><p> </p><p>The WBC focuses on supporting women to progress and fulfil their potential in the workplace including the female executive pipeline. Our policies are also supporting this – flexible working, introduction of shared parental leave and support to the costs of childcare.</p><p> </p><p>Many companies are now committed to building the pipeline of female talent from the bottom up by setting measurable targets, helping to create more family friendly workplaces and addressing bias in hiring, promotion and talent identification. Through the WBC, we are engaging more men in this debate to be the champions of women in their organisation addressing issues such as these.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We want to see many more female role models working in all sectors to help attract a wider pool of female candidates, particularly in traditionally male dominated sectors, as well as the lessons from the Lord Davies review extend to all professions including the investment sector.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 31/07/2015 11:47:02 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

392004

registered interest
date	21/07/2015
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	Females: Ethnic Groups
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 economic contribution made by women of Black and Minority Ethnic background.
tabling member printed	Baroness Uddin
uin	HL1767
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/07/2015 answer text <p>Women from black and minority ethnic backgrounds make a vital contribution to the country's economic growth, but too many women are still unable to fulfil their potential. This is why the Prime Minister announced that the Government aims to close the gender pay gap in a generation.</p><p> </p><p>To create a fair society in which everyone is able to fully contribute, regardless of their gender, race or background, the Government is; introducing the living wage, extending the right to request flexible working to all employees, rolling out shared parental leaving and increasing the support available for childcare costs.</p><p> </p><p>Business has a key role to play as well, which is why the Government is asking employers with over 250 employees to publish the difference between the pay of their male and female employees. We are currently consulting on how best to do this.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>More widely, our 2020 Vision initiative sets out ambitious but realistic aspirations to help people from all our communities really thrive. We want to increase the number of people from black and ethnic minorities in higher education and work, particularly in the professions, by 20 per cent by 2020. We also want to see our BME communities producing 20% of new recruits for the police and the army by then.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 31/07/2015 11:46:20 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	1827 label Biography information for Baroness Uddin

392014

registered interest
date	21/07/2015
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 plans they have to make Women’s Sport Week an annual event.
tabling member printed	Lord Moynihan
uin	HL1777
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/07/2015 answer text <p>Although Government cannot mandate that the sector runs a Women’s Sport Week every year, we are delighted that Women in Sport considered the inaugural week a success and are already making provisional plans for next year.</p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 29/07/2015 10:27:56 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
tabling member	924 label Biography information for Lord Moynihan

391351

registered interest
date	20/07/2015
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: South West
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their assessment of the regional and national economic effects of the present rate of the roll-out of superfast broadband in Devon and Somerset.
tabling member printed	Lord Patten
uin	HL1682
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/07/2015 answer text <p>The Connecting Devon and Somerset Phase 1 broadband project is approximately half way through delivery of its target of providing superfast broadband coverage to 276,000 premises. In June 2015 Connecting Devon and Somerset entered into a further contract under Phase 2 of the broadband programme to provide coverage to a minimum of 4,659 premises in Exmoor and Dartmoor. The Department for Culture, Media and Sport published a study with analysis on the impact of superfast broadband in 2013. This is available at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-broadband-impact-study--2" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-broadband-impact-study--2</a></p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 30/07/2015 14:12:01 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
tabling member	1137 label Biography information for Lord Patten

390940

registered interest
date	17/07/2015
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 Technology: Disability
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 that people with sensory loss can share in the benefits of (a) on-demand television services and (b) new social media.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	7874
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/07/2015 answer text <p>The Government remains committed to seeing an improvement in the provision of access services for video-on-demand (VoD) services and will continue to monitor progress. If the Authority for Television on Demand’s (ATVOD's) 2015 annual survey of VoD Services indicates that significant progress has not been made then, as stated in the Connectivity, Content and Consumers Paper (July 2013), we will consider legislation in 2016. The Department for Culture, Media and Sport does not have policy responsibility for sensory loss for new social media.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 29/07/2015 15:43:08 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

390941

registered interest
date	17/07/2015
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: Expenditure
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 sport in (a) Ashfield constituency, (b) Nottinghamshire, (c) East Midlands and (d) England in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
uin	7849
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/07/2015 answer text <p>Figures in the first three tables below (for Ashfield, Nottinghamshire and East Midlands) show Sport England direct investment in local projects in these areas only. The figures in the final table (for England) include additional money being spent on grassroots sports by national governing bodies and other national partners in which Sport England is investing to get more people playing sport across England.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Ashfield awards (both Exchequer and National Lottery investment)</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Financial Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total (£)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/2011</p></td><td><p>15,748</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/2012</p></td><td><p>13,480</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/2013</p></td><td><p>68,792</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/2014</p></td><td><p>2,360</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/2015</p></td><td><p>60,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> 160,380</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Nottinghamshire awards (both Exchequer and National Lottery investment)</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Financial Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total (£)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/2011</p></td><td><p>1,399,537</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/2012</p></td><td><p>2,187,292</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/2013</p></td><td><p>2,551,077</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/2014</p></td><td><p>4,427,169</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/2015</p></td><td><p>3,712,752</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>14,994,369</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><strong>East Midlands awards (both Exchequer and National Lottery investment)</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Financial Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total (£)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/2011</p></td><td><p>6,230,847</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/2012</p></td><td><p>10,221,762</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/2013</p></td><td><p>12,723,793</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/2014</p></td><td><p>10,780,211</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/2015</p></td><td><p>21,822,545</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> 61,779,158</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>England total awards (both Exchequer and National Lottery investment, and all investment in National Governing Bodies)</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Financial Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total (£)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/2011</p></td><td><p>173,624,416</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/2012</p></td><td><p>235,770,284</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/2013</p></td><td><p>199,462,828</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/2014</p></td><td><p>402,635,902</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/2015</p></td><td><p>312,592,975</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Grand Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> 1,324,086,405</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>These are the most up-to-date figures. Awards are updated each quarter with new commitments, decommitments and adjustments. Delivery postcodes are also, on occasion, updated to be more accurate. This is why there are differences in the figures for the PQ above and the answer given to PQ 169026 from Gloria De Piero MP of 8 October 2013.</p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 28/07/2015 15:01:19 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

390942

registered interest
date	17/07/2015
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	Gaming Machines: Copeland
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 fixed-odds betting terminals there were in Copeland constituency in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Copeland
tabling member printed	Mr Jamie Reed
uin	7797
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/07/2015 answer text <p>A betting premises licence issued under the Gambling Act 2005 authorises its holder to make up to 4 gaming machines available for use. This entitlement is limited to gaming machines terminals which fall within sub-categories B2 (what we commonly think of when we refer to FOBTs), B3 and B4, and categories C and D.</p><p><br> <br></p><p>Industry data shows that the constituency of Copeland ha for all categories of gaming machines:</p><p> </p><p>54 terminals in 2015</p><p>50 terminals in 2014</p><p>49 terminals in 2013</p><p>46 terminals in 2012</p><p> </p><p><br> There are no figures for 2011.</p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 28/07/2015 15:02:23 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
tabling member	1503 label Biography information for Mr Jamie Reed

390943

registered interest
date	17/07/2015
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	Horse Racing: Prize Money
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what information his Department holds on the total prize money dispersed in horse racing in each of the last five years; and what estimate he has made of how much the betting industry has contributed to horse racing through (a) levy payments, (b) media rights and (c) sponsorship in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	7767
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/07/2015 answer text <p>The total amount of prize money distributed in horseracing over the past 5 years is as follows:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Calendar Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2010</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2011</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Amount (£m)</strong></p></td><td><p>98.96</p></td><td><p>93.89</p></td><td><p>97.78</p></td><td><p>114.2</p></td><td><p>123.2</p></td><td><p>130.8 (estimate)</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><em>Source: BHA Fact Book 2014 for 2010-2013 inclusive; BHA press notice of 14 January 2015 for 2014 and 2015</em></p><p>Notes:</p><p>a) Prize money comes from three main sources – the Levy Board, Racecourses (including sponsor contributions) and Owners (via entry fees).</p><p>b) The sport of horseracing is organised by calendar year.</p><p> </p><p>Total yield in the past 5 financial years from betting operators via the Levy Board, comprising statutory Levy payments and contributions made voluntarily, is as follows:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Financial Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2010/11</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2011/12</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012/13</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013/14</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014/15</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Amount (£m)</strong></p></td><td><p>59.9</p></td><td><p>74.7</p></td><td><p>74.3</p></td><td><p>78.0</p></td><td><p>71.8</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><em>Source: Horserace Betting Levy Board</em></p><p>Notes:</p><p>a) Levy Schemes follow the financial year.</p><p>b) Offshore remote operators do not pay Levy unless they choose to do so through voluntary arrangements.</p><p> </p><p>The Department holds no annual breakdowns of information about betting industry payments to racing by way of media rights. <em>The Economic Impact of British Racing 2013</em> (Deloitte) notes that relevant media companies received a total income of £153m in 2012 compared with £104m in 2008 (p.12). After deducting media companies’ operating costs, £88m of this was paid to the racecourses in 2012 (2008: £57m).</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Department holds no annual breakdowns of information about betting industry payments to racing by way of sponsorship. The total amount of sponsorship received by racing in 2012, from all sources, amounted to £38.6m, of which £31m went to racecourses. 41% of sponsored races were sponsored by betting companies (up from 37% in 2005). The total prize money of those races was £31.8m, but not all of this can be attributed to contributions from the betting industry (<em>The Economic Impact of British Racing 2013</em> p.44).</p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 28/07/2015 15:04:39 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies