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578565

	registered interest
	date	08/09/2016
	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	Busking
	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 contribution that busking makes to community life.
	tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
	uin	HL1709
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/09/2016 answer text <p>The Government is clear that live music and street entertainment play an important role in community life and can generate a positive atmosphere that can be enjoyed by all. It can help in introducing performers to new audiences and contributes significantly in establishing and developing new talent.</p> answering member printed Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen question first answered 16/09/2016 13:20:07 answering member 4330 label Biography information for Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen
	tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark

576316

	registered interest
	date	05/09/2016
	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	Voluntary Work: Young People
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what purpose is served by the National Citizen Service; who benefits from its provision; and what diversity data is available relating to that service.
	tabling member printed	Lord Ouseley
	uin	HL1556
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/09/2016 answer text <p>NCS was created to help build a more responsible, more cohesive, more engaged society. The government is committed to providing a place on NCS for every young person who wants one.</p><p> </p><p>Social mix is at the core of National Citizen Service and all young people, regardless of background, are supported to take part in the programme.</p><p> </p><p>In 2014, 17% of NCS participants were eligible for free school meals, compared with around 8% of young people of the same age in the general population.</p><p> </p><p>The national picture of NCS shows that young people from disadvantaged and minority ethnic backgrounds are well represented. The latest evaluation showed that 30% of NCS participants were from Black, Mixed or Asian backgrounds compared with 19% of the general population.</p><p> </p><p>The 2014 evaluation demonstrates that NCS graduates are more confident leaders and decision-makers. 7 in 10 NCS graduates felt more confident about getting a job, and more than 9 in 10 graduates felt NCS helped them develop useful skills for the future. Data from the summer 2014 programme showed that participants who were eligible for free school meals generally showed larger increases in personal resilience than others.</p> answering member printed Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen question first answered 16/09/2016 12:02:31 answering member 4330 label Biography information for Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen
	tabling member	2170 label Biography information for Lord Ouseley

576315

	registered interest
	date	05/09/2016
	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	Youth Services
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many youth service staff posts have been removed since 2010 and what assessment have they made of the affect of the reduced provision for young people.
	tabling member printed	Lord Ouseley
	uin	HL1555
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/09/2016 answer text <p>It is the responsibility of local authorities to decide how to allocate funding for youth services and as part of this, youth service staff posts, according to local need. There is an existing statutory duty on local authorities through Education Act 2006 (Section 507B) to secure, as far as is practicable, sufficient services and activities to improve the wellbeing of young people. Individual local authorities would be best placed to advise on any changes there have been to the number of youth service staff posts in their local area.</p> answering member printed Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen question first answered 16/09/2016 11:01:40 answering member 4330 label Biography information for Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen
	tabling member	2170 label Biography information for Lord Ouseley

576314

	registered interest
	date	05/09/2016
	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	Youth Centres: Closures
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many youth centres have been closed since 2010 and what assessment they have made of the impact of those closures on young people.
	tabling member printed	Lord Ouseley
	uin	HL1554
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/09/2016 answer text <p>It is the responsibility of local authorities to decide how to allocate funding for youth services, according to local need. Individual local authorities would be best placed to advise on any changes there have been to the number of youth centres in their local area.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen question first answered 16/09/2016 11:01:14 answering member 4330 label Biography information for Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen
	tabling member	2170 label Biography information for Lord Ouseley

576343

	registered interest
	date	05/09/2016
	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: Public Participation
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Olympic Games in Rio, what steps they will take to encourage greater participation in sport in the UK, in particular among women and ethnic minorities.
	tabling member printed	Lord Pendry
	uin	HL1583
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/09/2016 answer text <p>The brilliant performance of Team GB at this year’s Olympic Games will have inspired many to take part in sport and physical activity. We are determined to get more people from under-represented groups including women and ethnic minorities taking part in sport and physical activity and to remove any barrier that prevents them from doing so. Government’s sport strategy ‘Sporting Future: A New Strategy for An Active Nation’ states that in future government will, via Sport England, support work designed to get more people from under-represented groups engaging in sport and physical activity and wherever possible, this focus on under-represented groups will run through all Sport England funding.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen question first answered 16/09/2016 10:46:19 answering member 4330 label Biography information for Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen
	tabling member	457 label Biography information for Lord Pendry

576342

	registered interest
	date	05/09/2016
	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 Competitors: Finance
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Olympic Games in Rio, and the potential adverse impact on funding for elite athletes of Brexit, what steps they will take to ensure proper funding for such athletes to support their successful participation in the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games.
	tabling member printed	Lord Pendry
	uin	HL1582
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/09/2016 answer text <p>The London 2012 Olympic Games were a huge success with sold-out venues and the best British performance for over 100 years in winning 65 medals. The Games left a legacy of increased participation and world-class sporting venues which are now being used by our elite athletes as well as local communities.</p><p> </p><p>The commitment from the Government immediately following the London 2012 Olympic Games to confirm and sustain Exchequer support for the UK Sport World Class Programme was a significant moment in underpinning the success of Rio, providing UK Sport, and the National Governing Bodies of sport, with the necessary financial support to invest in medal success across the Olympic and Paralympic sports.</p><p> </p><p>I am confident that this success will continue at the Rio 2016 Paralympics, and through to Tokyo in 2020 and beyond. Since 2012, UK Sport funded athletes have given back over 18,000 days visiting schools and local projects as part of our commitment to inspire the next generation.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen question first answered 16/09/2016 10:44:54 answering member 4330 label Biography information for Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen
	tabling member	457 label Biography information for Lord Pendry

578564

	registered interest
	date	08/09/2016
	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	Local Broadcasting: Television
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what actions they are taking to support local television services.
	tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
	uin	HL1708
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/09/2016 answer text <p>A total of 21 local television services have launched since November 2013 with a further 13 local services due come on air next year. The development of local television has been supported by up to £40m of ring-fenced funding under arrangements agreed with the BBC in 2011. Under these arrangements, the BBC will provide up to £25 million to cover the capital costs of building the local television transmission network and up to £15m for content funding from the BBC for each station's first three years on air.</p><p> </p><p>The draft Charter agreement published on 15 September included an extension to the content funding arrangements. This would ensure that all local television stations launching by 31 July 2017 and that wish to receive BBC support for their first three years on air will able to receive funding under these arrangements until March 2020.</p><p> </p><p>In addition to BBC funding, local television also benefits from having prominence on electronic programme guides (EPG) on Freeview and on other platforms and from certain exemptions to requirements in broadcasting legislation, such as having to source a proportion of their content from independent producers.</p> answering member printed Baroness Mobarik question first answered 22/09/2016 13:36:40 answering member 4335 label Biography information for Baroness Mobarik
	tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark

578563

	registered interest
	date	08/09/2016
	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	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their estimate of the number of people in the UK who do not have access to superfast broadband.
	tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
	uin	HL1707
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/09/2016 answer text <p>We want everyone to have access to high speed broadband as part of our commitment to building a stronger, more connected economy that works for all.</p><p>Through the Government’s investment of over £780 million, superfast broadband is now available to 90% of homes and businesses in the UK, compared to less than half in 2010. By the end of 2017 it will be available to 95% of homes and businesses.</p><p>But we are determined to go further, and extra funding from clawback and efficiency savings in the local broadband contracts with BT will allow this coverage to be extended.</p><p>We are also committed to introducing a Universal Service Obligation for broadband through the Digital Economy Bill. Our ambition is to set the minimum speed at 10Mbps - enough to meet the needs of a typical family and many small businesses so no-one is left behind.</p> answering member printed Baroness Mobarik question first answered 22/09/2016 13:35:15 answering member 4335 label Biography information for Baroness Mobarik
	tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark

529198

	registered interest
	date	28/06/2016
	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	Middle East: Overseas Aid
	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 16 June (HL576), whether the trial of Mazher Mahmood is among those cases she refers to as connected to the subject of the Leveson Inquiry and which must conclude before they will consider Part 2 of the Leveson Inquiry, and which other criminal proceedings are also in that category.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Hollins
	uin	HL852
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2016 answer text <p>There are a number of on-going cases captured by the Leveson criteria, which were laid down to avoid the risk of prejudice to the right to fair trials in the criminal courts. The trial of Mazher Mahmood is one of these.</p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 08/07/2016 12:59:47 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
	tabling member	4190 label Biography information for Baroness Hollins

529932

	registered interest
	date	29/06/2016
	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	Solicitors: Fraud
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government when they expect to publish the Frontier Economics report commissioned by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport on the level of contributions from the betting industry to the horse-racing industry.
	tabling member printed	Viscount Astor
	uin	HL861
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2016 answer text <p>The Frontier Economics report is an independent economic analysis of the costs and revenues of the horseracing sector in Great Britain. This report forms one element of Government’s work on determining the rate which will be payable by gambling operators under the new funding system which is due to be in place by April 2017.</p><p> </p><p>The Government intends to publish the findings of the Frontier Report in due course.</p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 06/07/2016 16:30:22 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
	tabling member	3429 label Biography information for Viscount Astor