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1641149

	registered interest
	date	02/06/2023
	answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept id	217
	answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Television Licences: Schools
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of exempting state schools from the TV licence fee.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
	tabling member printed	Aaron Bell
	uin	187217
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2023 answer text <p>In most circumstances, one TV Licence will cover the entire school or college. There are no additional concessions for schools or colleges, and the Government is not considering making changes to the current concessions regime at this time.</p><p>The BBC is responsible for the collection and enforcement of the licence fee, not the Government, and it is the BBC that administers concession schemes.</p> answering member constituency Maldon answering member printed Sir John Whittingdale question first answered 08/06/2023 08:07:16 answering member 39 label Biography information for Sir John Whittingdale
	tabling member	4837 label Biography information for Aaron Bell

1665752

	registered interest
	date	18/10/2023
	answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept id	217
	answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	BBC: Disclosure of Information
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will take steps to encourage the BBC to publish the 2004 Balen Report.
	tabling member constituency	Gravesham
	tabling member printed	Adam Holloway
	uin	203242
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2023 answer text <p>The BBC is editorially and operationally independent from the Government, and this is an issue for the BBC.</p> answering member constituency Maldon answering member printed Sir John Whittingdale question first answered 23/10/2023 08:26:58 answering member 39 label Biography information for Sir John Whittingdale
	tabling member	1522 label Biography information for Adam Holloway

521122

	registered interest
	date	24/05/2016
	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: Finance
	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 of £530 million his Department allocated to Broadband Delivery UK remained unspent at the end of the Phase 1 broadband delivery period.
	tabling member constituency	Cheltenham
	tabling member printed	Alex Chalk
	uin	38125
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/06/2016 answer text <p>As of 1 May 2016, over £476m of BDUK funding had been spent on Phase 1 of the superfast broadband programme. Funding is released on completion of project delivery milestones. The remainder of the funding will be spent by end 2017 which is the completion date for some of the Phase 1 projects.</p> answering member constituency Maldon answering member printed Mr John Whittingdale question first answered 02/06/2016 14:53:05 answering member 39 label Biography information for Sir John Whittingdale
	tabling member	4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk

1649638

	registered interest
	date	03/07/2023
	answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept id	217
	answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Welsh National Opera: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions she has had with Arts Council England on the potential impact of the reduction in funding on the Welsh National Opera.
	tabling member constituency	Pontypridd
	tabling member printed	Alex Davies-Jones
	uin	192224
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2023 answer text <p>It is important that people across the country have access to a diverse range of cultural opportunities. Arts and cultural bodies receive funding through a wide variety of sources, including through Arts Council England, an arm’s-length body of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.</p><p>The Welsh National Opera will receive £4 million of public funding through Arts Council England’s 2023–26 Investment Programme, and was also successful in its application to the Arts Council’s ‘Transform Programme’ through which it will receive an additional one-off payment of £3.25 million. This means the Welsh National Opera will receive over £15 million of public funding between 2023 and 2026.</p><p>The decisions about which organisations to fund, and by how much, is a decision taken wholly by Arts Council England independently of HM Government. This is in accordance with the well established process, which is published on the Arts Council’s website and made clear in the guidance for applicants. How the Welsh National Opera chooses to spend its grant funding with respect to staffing, touring, and community work are matters for the organisation itself.</p><p>Cultural organisations such as the Welsh National Opera are also benefiting from the two-year extension to the higher rates of theatre, orchestra, museums and galleries exhibition tax reliefs announced at the last Budget. This extension will continue to offset ongoing pressures and boost investment in our cultural sectors. They will incentivise investment in productions in the UK, support them to tour, drive economic growth, and allow the sector to maintain its international competitiveness and reputation.</p> answering member constituency Maldon answering member printed Sir John Whittingdale grouped question UIN 192225 192226 192227 192228 question first answered 11/07/2023 11:07:12 answering member 39 label Biography information for Sir John Whittingdale
	tabling member	4849 label Biography information for Alex Davies-Jones

1649639

	registered interest
	date	03/07/2023
	answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept id	217
	answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Welsh National Opera: Finance
	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 she has made of the potential impact of the reduction in funding from Arts Council England on the Welsh National Opera.
	tabling member constituency	Pontypridd
	tabling member printed	Alex Davies-Jones
	uin	192225
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2023 answer text <p>It is important that people across the country have access to a diverse range of cultural opportunities. Arts and cultural bodies receive funding through a wide variety of sources, including through Arts Council England, an arm’s-length body of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.</p><p>The Welsh National Opera will receive £4 million of public funding through Arts Council England’s 2023–26 Investment Programme, and was also successful in its application to the Arts Council’s ‘Transform Programme’ through which it will receive an additional one-off payment of £3.25 million. This means the Welsh National Opera will receive over £15 million of public funding between 2023 and 2026.</p><p>The decisions about which organisations to fund, and by how much, is a decision taken wholly by Arts Council England independently of HM Government. This is in accordance with the well established process, which is published on the Arts Council’s website and made clear in the guidance for applicants. How the Welsh National Opera chooses to spend its grant funding with respect to staffing, touring, and community work are matters for the organisation itself.</p><p>Cultural organisations such as the Welsh National Opera are also benefiting from the two-year extension to the higher rates of theatre, orchestra, museums and galleries exhibition tax reliefs announced at the last Budget. This extension will continue to offset ongoing pressures and boost investment in our cultural sectors. They will incentivise investment in productions in the UK, support them to tour, drive economic growth, and allow the sector to maintain its international competitiveness and reputation.</p> answering member constituency Maldon answering member printed Sir John Whittingdale grouped question UIN 192224 192226 192227 192228 question first answered 11/07/2023 11:07:12 answering member 39 label Biography information for Sir John Whittingdale
	tabling member	4849 label Biography information for Alex Davies-Jones

1649640

	registered interest
	date	03/07/2023
	answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept id	217
	answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Welsh National Opera
	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 her Department is taking to support the Welsh National Opera; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Pontypridd
	tabling member printed	Alex Davies-Jones
	uin	192226
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2023 answer text <p>It is important that people across the country have access to a diverse range of cultural opportunities. Arts and cultural bodies receive funding through a wide variety of sources, including through Arts Council England, an arm’s-length body of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.</p><p>The Welsh National Opera will receive £4 million of public funding through Arts Council England’s 2023–26 Investment Programme, and was also successful in its application to the Arts Council’s ‘Transform Programme’ through which it will receive an additional one-off payment of £3.25 million. This means the Welsh National Opera will receive over £15 million of public funding between 2023 and 2026.</p><p>The decisions about which organisations to fund, and by how much, is a decision taken wholly by Arts Council England independently of HM Government. This is in accordance with the well established process, which is published on the Arts Council’s website and made clear in the guidance for applicants. How the Welsh National Opera chooses to spend its grant funding with respect to staffing, touring, and community work are matters for the organisation itself.</p><p>Cultural organisations such as the Welsh National Opera are also benefiting from the two-year extension to the higher rates of theatre, orchestra, museums and galleries exhibition tax reliefs announced at the last Budget. This extension will continue to offset ongoing pressures and boost investment in our cultural sectors. They will incentivise investment in productions in the UK, support them to tour, drive economic growth, and allow the sector to maintain its international competitiveness and reputation.</p> answering member constituency Maldon answering member printed Sir John Whittingdale grouped question UIN 192224 192225 192227 192228 question first answered 11/07/2023 11:07:12 answering member 39 label Biography information for Sir John Whittingdale
	tabling member	4849 label Biography information for Alex Davies-Jones

1649642

	registered interest
	date	03/07/2023
	answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept id	217
	answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Welsh National Opera: Finance
	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 she has made of the adequacy of the amount of transition funding offered by Arts Council England’s to the Welsh National Opera.
	tabling member constituency	Pontypridd
	tabling member printed	Alex Davies-Jones
	uin	192227
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2023 answer text <p>It is important that people across the country have access to a diverse range of cultural opportunities. Arts and cultural bodies receive funding through a wide variety of sources, including through Arts Council England, an arm’s-length body of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.</p><p>The Welsh National Opera will receive £4 million of public funding through Arts Council England’s 2023–26 Investment Programme, and was also successful in its application to the Arts Council’s ‘Transform Programme’ through which it will receive an additional one-off payment of £3.25 million. This means the Welsh National Opera will receive over £15 million of public funding between 2023 and 2026.</p><p>The decisions about which organisations to fund, and by how much, is a decision taken wholly by Arts Council England independently of HM Government. This is in accordance with the well established process, which is published on the Arts Council’s website and made clear in the guidance for applicants. How the Welsh National Opera chooses to spend its grant funding with respect to staffing, touring, and community work are matters for the organisation itself.</p><p>Cultural organisations such as the Welsh National Opera are also benefiting from the two-year extension to the higher rates of theatre, orchestra, museums and galleries exhibition tax reliefs announced at the last Budget. This extension will continue to offset ongoing pressures and boost investment in our cultural sectors. They will incentivise investment in productions in the UK, support them to tour, drive economic growth, and allow the sector to maintain its international competitiveness and reputation.</p> answering member constituency Maldon answering member printed Sir John Whittingdale grouped question UIN 192224 192225 192226 192228 question first answered 11/07/2023 11:07:12 answering member 39 label Biography information for Sir John Whittingdale
	tabling member	4849 label Biography information for Alex Davies-Jones

1649643

	registered interest
	date	03/07/2023
	answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept id	217
	answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Welsh National Opera: Finance
	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 she has made of the potential impact of the reduction in funding from Arts Council England on the (a) staffing, (b) touring and (c) community work of the Welsh National Opera.
	tabling member constituency	Pontypridd
	tabling member printed	Alex Davies-Jones
	uin	192228
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2023 answer text <p>It is important that people across the country have access to a diverse range of cultural opportunities. Arts and cultural bodies receive funding through a wide variety of sources, including through Arts Council England, an arm’s-length body of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.</p><p>The Welsh National Opera will receive £4 million of public funding through Arts Council England’s 2023–26 Investment Programme, and was also successful in its application to the Arts Council’s ‘Transform Programme’ through which it will receive an additional one-off payment of £3.25 million. This means the Welsh National Opera will receive over £15 million of public funding between 2023 and 2026.</p><p>The decisions about which organisations to fund, and by how much, is a decision taken wholly by Arts Council England independently of HM Government. This is in accordance with the well established process, which is published on the Arts Council’s website and made clear in the guidance for applicants. How the Welsh National Opera chooses to spend its grant funding with respect to staffing, touring, and community work are matters for the organisation itself.</p><p>Cultural organisations such as the Welsh National Opera are also benefiting from the two-year extension to the higher rates of theatre, orchestra, museums and galleries exhibition tax reliefs announced at the last Budget. This extension will continue to offset ongoing pressures and boost investment in our cultural sectors. They will incentivise investment in productions in the UK, support them to tour, drive economic growth, and allow the sector to maintain its international competitiveness and reputation.</p> answering member constituency Maldon answering member printed Sir John Whittingdale grouped question UIN 192224 192225 192226 192227 question first answered 11/07/2023 11:07:12 answering member 39 label Biography information for Sir John Whittingdale
	tabling member	4849 label Biography information for Alex Davies-Jones

1654774

	registered interest
	date	20/07/2023
	answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept id	217
	answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Electronic Cigarettes: Children
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether her Department is taking steps to ban vaping brands from promoting their products through (a) sponsorship and (b) other means to children.
	tabling member constituency	Rother Valley
	tabling member printed	Alexander Stafford
	uin	195574
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/09/2023 answer text <p>I refer the Honourable Member to the answer I gave on 18 July 2023 to Question <a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2023-07-13/193917" target="_blank">193917</a>.</p> answering member constituency Maldon answering member printed Sir John Whittingdale question first answered 04/09/2023 13:34:17 answering member 39 label Biography information for Sir John Whittingdale
	tabling member	4866 label Biography information for Alexander Stafford

1648556

	registered interest
	date	28/06/2023
	answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept id	217
	answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Arts: Education
	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 her Department is taking to support the educational arts sector.
	tabling member constituency	Wirral South
	tabling member printed	Alison McGovern
	uin	191566
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2023 answer text <p>His Majesty’s Government is committed to ensuring that all children and young people have a broad and balanced curriculum, of which creative education is a key part. We have a wide range of music and arts education programmes designed to improve access to the arts for all children, regardless of their background or where they live, and to maximise potential and unlock opportunity across the country. The Department for Education will continue to invest around £115 million per annum in cultural education over the next three years, through its music, arts, and heritage programmes.</p><p>The recently published Creative Industries Sector Vision highlighted our Creative Careers Promise, which will build on our educational arts offering to young people. As part of this, and as committed to in the Schools White Paper, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and the Department for Education are working together to develop a Cultural Education Plan. This plan aims to highlight the importance of high-quality cultural education in schools, promote the social value of cultural and creative education, outline and support career progression pathways, address skills gaps, and tackle disparities in opportunity and outcome. It will also connect relevant organisations delivering cultural learning opportunities and to support the cultural education workforce, including freelancers.</p><p>This week, the Government announced 22 independent experts who will sit on an advisory panel to support the development of the Cultural Education Plan. This panel, chaired by the crossbench peer Baroness Bull, comprises teachers, education leaders, and representatives from the performing arts, museums, heritage and youth sectors, and the creative industries.</p><p>As part of their work, Baroness Bull, members of the panel, and officials from both Departments are undertaking a series of around 50 listening exercises, working with organisations including the Confederation of School Trusts, the Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Youth Agency, Creative UK, the Royal Society of Arts, and Arts Council England’s Youth Advisory Board.</p><p>This is on top of existing Government initiatives to support the arts in education, including £25 million for musical instruments as committed to alongside the National Plan for Music Education, exploring opportunities for enrichment activities as part of the Government’s wraparound childcare provision, improving creative apprenticeships, and supporting the rollout of relevant T-Levels.</p><p>Additionally, we recognise the rich cultural learning experiences that children and young people in England access through the cultural sector, and we are pleased that 79% of organisations being funded through Arts Council England’s 2023–26 national portfolio are delivering activities directly to children and young people – a 20% increase from the last national portfolio.</p><p><strong></strong><br><br></p> answering member constituency Maldon answering member printed Sir John Whittingdale question first answered 03/07/2023 16:26:26 answering member 39 label Biography information for Sir John Whittingdale
	tabling member	4083 label Biography information for Alison McGovern