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1544917

registered interest
date	23/11/2022
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	Sports: Internet
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 steps her Department is taking to help ensure that fans can watch major sporting events online.
tabling member constituency	Stockton South
tabling member printed	Matt Vickers
uin	94910
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2022 answer text <p>The Government believes that certain sporting events of national interest should be shown on free-to-air television so that they can be enjoyed by as wide an audience as possible.</p><p>We want to ensure that as viewing habits change and technology evolves the regulatory framework remains fit for purpose.</p><p>Our Broadcasting White Paper confirmed our intention to undertake a review to look at whether the scope of the listed events regime should be extended to include digital rights. The Government is speaking to stakeholders to look at whether in the face of technological change, the objectives of the existing regime are still being met and whether digital rights should be included in the regime. The review will need to balance the ability for audiences to watch national sporting events at no additional cost with the ability for sporting organisations to generate revenues from sports rights to re-invest in their sports at all levels.</p><p>The Terms of Reference for the review can be found <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/listed-events-digital-rights-review" target="_blank">here.</a></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Hornchurch and Upminster answering member printed Julia Lopez question first answered 28/11/2022 17:02:37 answering member 4647 label Biography information for Julia Lopez
tabling member	4844 label Biography information for Matt Vickers

1544918

registered interest
date	23/11/2022
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	Sports
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 steps her Department is taking to promote British sport.
tabling member constituency	Stockton South
tabling member printed	Matt Vickers
uin	94911
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2022 answer text <p>The Government is committed to building on the UK’s world-leading sporting reputation, and we are supporting our athletes and international sport activity through over £77 million investment per year in UK Sport for the Paris Olympic and Paralympic cycle.</p><p>We also ensure the UK is a global focus for sport through our hosting of major sporting events. This year has seen us successfully host a number of major sporting events, including the Birmingham Commonwealth Games, UEFA Women’s Euros and the Rugby League World Cup.</p><p>Looking ahead, we continue to build on our pipeline of events hosted in the UK between now and 2030. These include the UCI World Cycling Championships in Glasgow in 2023, the return of the UEFA Champions League Final to Wembley in 2024, the women’s Rugby World Cup in England in 2025, the European Athletics Championships 2026 in Birmingham, as well as both the 2026 Women's T20 Cricket World Cup (England and Wales) and the 2030 Men’s T20 Cricket World Cup (UK and Ireland). We are also supporting a UK &amp; Ireland bid for the UEFA European Championships 2028.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 01/12/2022 16:04:21 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	4844 label Biography information for Matt Vickers

1544919

registered interest
date	23/11/2022
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	Sports
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 steps her Department is taking to encourage grassroots participation in sport.
tabling member constituency	Stockton South
tabling member printed	Matt Vickers
uin	94912
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2022 answer text <p>Supporting grassroots sport is a key government priority. We recognise that taking part in sport brings communities together and contributes to making people both happier and healthier.</p><p>The majority of funding to grassroots sports projects is delivered through our Arms Length Body, Sport England. Last year, Sport England received almost £350 million from the Exchequer and National Lottery.</p><p>The government also invests £18 million a year into community sport facilities via the Football Foundation, alongside the English Football Association and the Premier League. We have committed an additional £230 million UK-wide between 2021 and 2025 to increase participation, particularly for under-represented groups including women and girls and disabled players.</p><p>Since 2019, Sport England has invested over £1.6 million in Stockton South and provided funding to the Football Foundation to invest nearly £190,000 in 20 projects across the constituency.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 01/12/2022 16:00:28 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	4844 label Biography information for Matt Vickers

1544920

registered interest
date	23/11/2022
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	Internet: Children
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 steps her Department is taking to protect children online.
tabling member constituency	Stockton South
tabling member printed	Matt Vickers
uin	94913
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2022 answer text <p>Protecting children online is a priority for the government. The strongest protections in the Online Safety Bill are for children.</p><p>All companies in scope will need to take robust steps to protect children from illegal content and activity on their services. This includes proactively identifying and minimising the uploading and sharing of priority illegal content such as child sexual exploitation and abuse. Companies will also need to have effective systems and processes to quickly take down other illegal content or behaviour once it has been reported or they become aware of its presence.</p><p>Companies in scope will also need to assess whether their service is likely to be accessed by children and if so, deliver additional protections for children from harmful content or activity. If they fail to do so, they will be subject to tough enforcement action by Ofcom, the regulator.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully grouped question UIN 93538 question first answered 29/11/2022 09:26:39 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
tabling member	4844 label Biography information for Matt Vickers

1544922

registered interest
date	23/11/2022
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	Technology
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 steps her Department is taking to promote growth in the British tech sector.
tabling member constituency	Stockton South
tabling member printed	Matt Vickers
uin	94914
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2022 answer text <p>We are committed to make the UK the best place in the world to start and grow a technology business and to ensure the benefits are felt in all corners of the country. Our Digital Strategy, published in June 2022, sets out our vision and the actions required to deliver on it.</p><p>The Digital Strategy outlined the government’s desire to support our digital tech sector by ensuring that the next generation of innovative tech companies can access the capital they need to flourish in the UK and abroad. To accelerate the growth of start-ups and scale-ups, we have launched the Digital Growth Grant Competition, worth up to £12.09 million, which will support companies with access to finance, tailored advice, talent and markets across the regions and nations of the UK. We have also worked to expand the generosity of the Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme, the Company Share Option Plan and to ensure R&amp;D tax credits will extend to data and computing costs for the first time.</p><p>We are also working to provide British tech companies with the infrastructure they need to grow. The government is investing in digital infrastructure to extend 4G mobile coverage and deliver gigabit-capable broadband across the UK through our £5 billion Project Gigabit delivering at least 85% gigabit-capable broadband coverage by 2025 and nationwide coverage by 2030.</p><p>Ensuring that British tech companies have access to a highly skilled workforce is critical to the growth of the sector. We are funding AI and Data Science Conversion Courses to support underrepresented groups from non-STEM backgrounds to undertake a masters in AI and Data Science, quickly upskilling to secure employment in the UK’s cutting-edge sectors. Earlier this year we announced up to a further 2,000 scholarships for the programme. We have also announced £117 million in funding to create 1,000 more PhDs through Centres for Doctoral Training (CDTs).</p><p>To support further action on digital upskilling, we launched the Digital Skills Council in June. The Council brings together industry leaders and training experts and l will review what more government and industry can do collaboratively to improve workforce digital skills in the UK.</p><p>We are also driving growth in key areas of UK specialism. As part of the £2.6 billion National Cyber Strategy the government is driving growth and innovation in the UK cyber security sector. This includes the Cyber Runway programme to grow, develop and scale cyber security businesses, and our network of regional cyber clusters which are driving growth across all regions of the UK by supporting businesses in areas such as Northern Ireland, Yorkshire and the North West.</p><p><strong><p><p><p></strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 01/12/2022 15:40:08 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
tabling member	4844 label Biography information for Matt Vickers

1544924

registered interest
date	23/11/2022
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	Film and Television
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 steps her Department is taking to support the UK’s film and television industry.
tabling member constituency	Stockton South
tabling member printed	Matt Vickers
uin	94916
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2022 answer text <p>The Government is committed to ensuring that British film and television industries are able to deliver for audiences, expand their businesses, and offer opportunities for cast and crew across the UK.</p><p>In recent years, the Government’s actions have helped the film and TV industry bounce back from the pandemic, with production now stronger than ever. This includes the £500 million Film and TV Production Restart Scheme, supporting over 100,000 jobs and productions worth more than £3 billion. In addition, the Culture Recovery Fund for Independent Cinemas supported over 200 independent cinemas to ensure that films could be screened in cinemas following the pandemic.</p><p>To build on this, and support the sector to not only survive but thrive, the government has taken further action. This includes the Government’s current £1.6 million annual funding of the British Film Commission, which has driven a near doubling of UK studio capacity, the £28 million UK Global Screen Fund, which is expanding the global reach of UK independent content, and the continued success of our screen sector tax reliefs (for film, high-end TV, animation and children’s TV), which in 2021-22 provided £792 million of support for over 1000 projects. HM Treasury has published a consultation on reforms to the audio-visual tax reliefs, which aims to ensure they remain world leading and continue to best serve the needs of creative companies.</p><p>In addition, the Government intends to update the existing legislative framework to ensure that our public service broadcasters have the tools to grow and flourish in the digital age. Our proposed reforms will, for example, ensure that public service content is always carried and easy to find on connected devices and major online platforms, including on smart TVs, set-top boxes and streaming sticks.</p><p>These and other reforms set out in our Broadcasting White Paper, published earlier this year, will ensure that our television and film industries continue to prosper in our new media landscape – an outcome that is good for both audiences and the creative economy.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hornchurch and Upminster answering member printed Julia Lopez question first answered 30/11/2022 08:32:22 answering member 4647 label Biography information for Julia Lopez
tabling member	4844 label Biography information for Matt Vickers

1544925

registered interest
date	23/11/2022
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	Digital Technology: Business
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 steps her Department is taking to increase use of digital documentation to reduce business costs.
tabling member constituency	Stockton South
tabling member printed	Matt Vickers
uin	94917
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2022 answer text <p>The Government recognises that the UK’s economic future, prosperity and productivity are all reliant on continued and growing success in digital technology.</p><p>DCMS is playing its part by taking steps to create a secure and trusted digital identity marketplace that can operate across economic sectors. Enabling the use of trusted digital identities in the UK will provide individuals with an alternative to offline manual identity proofing, which are estimated to cost between £800 million to £2 billion per annum*. This work is strongly supported by businesses as it is estimated that a fully functioning digital identity market that could generate direct annual economic benefits to the UK economy between £743m and £938m*.</p><p>The Central Digital and Data Office is also working with government departments to baseline service performance and capture any opportunities for efficiency through digital transformation. This includes opportunities to reform non-digital transactions and processes such as manual handling of paperwork.</p><p>*<a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1060056/Copy_of_OFFSEN_-_Digital_identity_and_attributes_-_De_Minimis_Assessment__DI_DMA__-_LIVE.pdf" target="_blank">Digital identity and attributes De Minimis Assessment (2022)</a></p><p>*<a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/12vzxO7_LHPyweGnUmUWyHuV46b5SeVOr/view" target="_blank">Economic Benefits of Digital Identity, Deloitte, 2020 (unpublished) </a></p> answering member constituency Hornchurch and Upminster answering member printed Julia Lopez question first answered 30/11/2022 14:07:08 answering member 4647 label Biography information for Julia Lopez
tabling member	4844 label Biography information for Matt Vickers

1544926

registered interest
date	23/11/2022
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	Broadband: Low Incomes
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 steps her Department is taking to support low income households with their broadband bills.
tabling member constituency	Stockton South
tabling member printed	Matt Vickers
uin	94918
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2022 answer text <p>DCMS has taken steps to address the affordability concerns of people from low-income households by successfully negotiating with broadband providers to introduce a range of low-cost, high-quality social tariffs, available in 99% of the UK, for as little as £12 for those on Universal Credit and other means-tested benefits.</p><p>We also secured a set of <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/telecoms-industry-agrees-to-new-cost-of-living-plan-following-government-summit-led-by-digital-secretary-nadine-dorries" target="_blank">commitments</a> from broadband providers to support people through the global rise in the cost of living. These commitments include more manageable payment plans and allowing households to switch to cheaper packages without penalty.</p><p>We continue to engage with the sector. On 29 November, DCMS convened a ministerial roundtable of leaders from across the sector, Ofcom as well as consumer groups to discuss further steps to support low-income families.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hornchurch and Upminster answering member printed Julia Lopez question first answered 30/11/2022 08:38:35 answering member 4647 label Biography information for Julia Lopez
tabling member	4844 label Biography information for Matt Vickers

1467295

registered interest
date	01/06/2022
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	Retail Trade: Technology
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 assessment her Department has made of the role of technology in creating a more accessible retail experience for British consumers.
tabling member constituency	Stockton South
tabling member printed	Matt Vickers
uin	11912
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2022 answer text <p>Our forthcoming Digital Strategy will set out our ambitions for harnessing the power of digital technologies to the benefit of our economy and society as a whole. The strategy will highlight that digital technologies, through innovation, can drive better services across various sectors.</p><p>The Government believes that there are great gains to be made through the adoption of digital technologies across all sectors. According to ONS data, SMEs which use two or more business management technologies demonstrate productivity gains of up to 25%. That is why last year we announced our Help to Grow scheme which provides financial incentives for increased digital adoption by SMEs.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 13/06/2022 12:14:40 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4844 label Biography information for Matt Vickers

1451754

registered interest
date	16/03/2022
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	Sports: Belarus and Russia
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 steps her Department is taking to help prevent Russia and Belarus participating in international sporting events.
tabling member constituency	Stockton South
tabling member printed	Matt Vickers
uin	141325
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2022 answer text <p>On Thursday 3 March, the Secretary of State and I convened a summit with 24 international ministerial counterparts - or senior representatives on their behalf - to discuss the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the response of international sport.</p><p>The summit followed bilateral meetings that I held with counterparts from Canada, Poland and Germany.</p><p>Following the international summit, a joint <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/statement-on-russias-war-on-ukraine-international-sport" target="_blank">statement</a> was signed by 37 nations and published on Tuesday 8 March, affirming the position outlined below:</p><ul><li><p>Russia and Belarus should not be permitted to host, bid for or be awarded any international sporting events.</p></li><li><p>Individual athletes selected by Russia and Belarus, administrators and teams representing the Russian or Belarusian state should be banned from competing in other countries, including those representing bodies, cities or brands that are effectively representing Russia or Belarus, such as major football clubs.</p></li><li><p>Wherever possible, appropriate actions should be taken to limit sponsorship and other financial support from entities with links to the Russian or Belarusian states.</p></li></ul><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 24/03/2022 17:18:40 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	4844 label Biography information for Matt Vickers