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724552

	registered interest
	date	26/04/2017
	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	Cycling
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 20 March 2017 to Question 68586, what discussions she has had with her counterpart in the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on the opportunities to increase off-road cycling as part of that Department's environment strategy.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	uin	72000
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/05/2017 answer text <p><B>The House of Commons was prorogued before the earliest date of answer for this Question.</B></p> answering member constituency answering member printed question first answered 02/05/2017 10:00:00 answering member 0
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

694331

	registered interest
	date	24/02/2017
	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	Social Enterprises: Offenders
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the answer by Lord Ashton of Hyde on 10 January (HL Deb, col 1856), what steps they are taking to enable more private, local authority and charity investment in social enterprises which support or employ ex-prisoners.
	tabling member printed	Lord Watts
	uin	HL5605
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2017 answer text <p>Charities and social enterprises play an important role in the government’s mission of building an economy that works for everyone. The government is building on its role as a world leader in soc`ial enterprise by championing procurement for social value, supporting social enterprise awareness campaigns, building the social investment market, using social enterprises to address issues at scale and expanding the social investment tax relief.</p> answering member printed Baroness Buscombe question first answered 09/03/2017 16:00:56 answering member 3349 label Biography information for Baroness Buscombe
	tabling member	489 label Biography information for Lord Watts

693674

	registered interest
	date	23/02/2017
	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	Social Investment Advisory Group
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government<i>, </i>further to the answer by Lord Ashton of Hyde on 10 January (HL Deb, col 1857), who is on the advisory group set up to open social investment products to individuals, how frequently will the group meet, when was the group’s first meeting, and what are its terms of reference.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Smith of Basildon
	uin	HL5578
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2017 answer text <p>The advisory group is chaired by Elizabeth Corley, VC Allianz Global Investors, and is made up of senior industry representatives from across the savings and investment sectors, with a balance of CEO’s, senior practitioners and product experts. A full list of organisations that are involved can be found at Annex A.</p><p>The group’s first meeting was on the 18th January and will meet four more times before July, when the group will announce their initial recommendations to government and industry. The three working groups, that have been set up to look at specific issues around Product, Distribution and Customer Engagement, will meet more frequently. Terms of reference can be found at Annex B</p><p>Annex A – List of organisations involved in the advisory group</p><p>The advisory group is split into:</p><p>(a) An advisory committee acting as a high-level sounding board</p><p>(b) A steering group which shapes the work</p><p>(c) Three working groups looking in-depth at specific issues around Product, Distribution and Customer Engagement</p><p>The Chair of the advisory group (which encompasses all of the above) is Elizabeth Corley, VC Allianz Global Investors, and it currently has representation from the following firms (subject to change/additions):</p><ul><li>Aberdeen Asset Management</li><li>Albion Ventures</li><li>Architas</li><li>Axa Investment Managers</li><li>Barclays</li><li>Big Issue Invest</li><li>Big Society Capital</li><li>Blackrock</li><li>Bridges Ventures</li><li>Centapse</li><li>CFA Society UK</li><li>City of London Social Investment Board</li><li>ClearlySo</li><li>Columbia Threadneedle</li><li>Esmee Fairbairn Foundation</li><li>FCA (Financial Conduct Authority)</li><li>FRC (Financial Reporting Council)</li><li>Grant Thornton</li><li>Hargreaves Lansdown</li><li>Henderson Global Investors</li><li>Hermes Investment Management</li><li>HSBC</li><li>Invesco</li><li>Investment Association</li><li>Legal &amp; General Investment Management</li><li>Lloyds Bank</li><li>M&amp;S Bank</li><li>Mercer</li><li>NEST (National Employment Savings Trust)</li><li>New Philanthropy Capital</li><li>Nutmeg</li><li>PLSA (Pensions &amp; Lifetime Savings Association)</li><li>Social Finance</li><li>St James Place</li><li>Standard Life</li><li>Squaremile</li><li>Triodos</li><li>Trust for London</li><li>UBS</li><li>UK National Advisory Board on Impact Investing</li><li>Virgin Money</li><li>Worthstone</li><li> </li></ul><p>Annex B: Terms of Reference</p><p>ADVISORY GROUP TO GOVERNMENT:</p><p>CREATING A CULTURE OF SOCIAL IMPACT INVESTMENT AND SAVINGS</p><p>ENHANCING INDIVIDUAL CHOICE</p><p>Summary:</p><p>How can the savings, pensions and investment industries, with the support of government, engage with individual investors to enable them to support more easily the things they care about through their savings and investment choices?</p><p>Detail:</p><p>The advisory group has been formed at the request of the Minister for Civil Society and the Economic Secretary to the Treasury.</p><p>It has been created to discuss how the savings, pensions and investment industries, with the support of government, can engage with individual investors to enable them to support more easily the things they care about through their savings and investment choices, whether through retail options or in collective schemes.</p><p>The aims of the advisory group are to:</p><p>1. Explore barriers to the development of products with social impact components</p><p>2. Explore barriers to the demand for and distribution of such products</p><p>3. Consider who is best placed to identify and implement solutions</p><p>4. Consider how existing best practice, regulatory incentives and further measures can reduce or remove barriers</p><p>5. Develop ideas for how best to explain social impact savings and investment choices to individuals and to provide feedback on impact to any fiduciaries and advisors involved</p><p>6. Discuss timescales for solutions, including possible next steps for any longer-term work to be taken forward beyond the advisory group.</p><p>Elizabeth Corley, Vice Chair of Allianz Global Investors (and previously CEO) has been asked to Chair the group. The group has been asked to make an initial report to the Minister for Civil Society and the Economic Secretary to the Treasury in Summer 2017.</p><p>Conclusions and recommendations are those of the group, but may not represent any individual member’s view. Any decisions on government policy rest with the ministers of the day.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Buscombe question first answered 09/03/2017 15:52:51 answering member 3349 label Biography information for Baroness Buscombe
	tabling member	4170 label Biography information for Baroness Smith of Basildon

693673

	registered interest
	date	23/02/2017
	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	Social Enterprises
	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 employed by social enterprises in each year since 2010.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Smith of Basildon
	uin	HL5577
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2017 answer text <p>The attached “Social Enterprise: Market Trends 2014” report found that the social enterprise sector employed roughly 2.27 million people in 2014. Estimated employment had increased by approximately 300,000 since 2012, when data were last collected. Data for 2016 are being collated and reviewed and will be published later this year.</p> answering member printed Baroness Buscombe question first answered 09/03/2017 15:50:57 answering member 3349 label Biography information for Baroness Buscombe attachment 1 file name SOCIAL_ENTERPRISE-_MARKET_TRENDS_2015.pdf title Social Enterprise: Market Trends 2014 report
	tabling member	4170 label Biography information for Baroness Smith of Basildon

748109

	registered interest
	date	04/07/2017
	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	Swimming Pools: Construction
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether her Department plans to provide funding for the construction of new swimming pools in (a) Hornsey and Wood Green, (b) London and (c) the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
	tabling member printed	Catherine West
	uin	2866
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2017 answer text <p>Sport England is the body responsible for making investment decisions on grassroots sports facilities in England.</p><p> </p><p>Across London, Sport England is currently investing £3.8 million from the Strategic Facilities Fund to construct three new leisure facilities which include swimming pools. It does not currently have any plans to fund the construction of a new swimming pool in Hornsey and Wood Green, but is able to offer support and guidance on how additional funding and advice could be accessed.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Local Government is by far the largest investor into community sport with £1bn invested each year and most grassroots sport is played using facilities (including parks and informal spaces) owned or controlled by the 353 local authorities in England. The government, through Sport England, works in partnership with local authorities to maximise the impact of this investment and safeguard it within the tough economic climate in which we all operate.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Sports policy is devolved and therefore the investment in swimming pools in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland is a matter for the devolved governments and Sport Wales, Sport Scotland and Sport Northern Ireland respectively.</p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 12/07/2017 14:42:46 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
	tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

748095

	registered interest
	date	04/07/2017
	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	Swimming: Public Participation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether (a) she and (b) the Minister for Sport plan to meet (i) Swim England and (ii) British Swimming to discuss increasing participation in (A) swimming for fitness and (B) competitive swimming.
	tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
	tabling member printed	Catherine West
	uin	2962
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2017 answer text <p>Swimming is both an important sport and physical activity, and a key life skill. I am very happy to meet with Swim England and British Swimming, in addition to meetings I already have planned with Swim England’s Swim Group, to discuss increasing participation in swimming for fitness and competitive swimming.</p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 12/07/2017 11:34:27 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
	tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

731440

	registered interest
	date	21/06/2017
	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	Leisure: Easington
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if the Government will make funding available for the construction and maintenance of a swimming pool and other leisure facilities in Easington constituency to promote health and wellbeing.
	tabling member constituency	Easington
	tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
	uin	341
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2017 answer text <p>Local Government is by far the largest investor into community sport with £1bn invested each year and most grassroots sport is played using facilities (including parks and informal spaces) owned or controlled by the 353 local authorities in England. The government, through Sport England, works in partnership with local authorities to maximise the impact of this investment and safeguard it within the tough economic climate in which we all operate.</p><p> </p><p>Current Local Delivery Pilots are still in development and the government is exploring new ways of working across local authorities, Sport England and other partners in delivering local sporting facilities and infrastructure.</p><p> </p><p>Sport England has no current plans to develop a major, Strategic Facility, investment in Easington, but their funds for future investment can be applied for through their website.</p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 12/07/2017 09:56:34 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
	tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

748096

	registered interest
	date	04/07/2017
	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	Charitable Donations
	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 she has made of the effect of the Fundraising Regulator's levy on charity fundraising.
	tabling member constituency	Croydon North
	tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
	uin	2956
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2017 answer text <p>The levy enables the Fundraising Regulator to strengthen the Code of Fundraising Practice, resolve public complaints and concerns about fundraising, and ultimately supports public trust and confidence in fundraising.</p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 11/07/2017 15:35:11 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
	tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

748094

	registered interest
	date	04/07/2017
	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	Charitable Donations
	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 estimate she has made of the amount raised by the Fundraising Regulator's levy on charity fundraising in the latest period for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Croydon North
	tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
	uin	2957
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2017 answer text <p>The Fundraising Regulator has said that it is on track to raise at least £1.8m from its voluntary levy for the year September 2016 to August 2017. Almost all of the largest fundraising charities have paid the levy. Some smaller fundraising charities have yet to respond and a few have refused to pay. The Fundraising Regulator is continuing to chase these charities. It will be for the Fundraising Regulator to decide whether to publish the names of those charities that have refused to pay or that have not responded to payment requests.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 11/07/2017 15:32:54 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
	tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

748106

	registered interest
	date	04/07/2017
	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	Charities: Fundraising
	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 support her Department is providing to charities to help them adopt digital technology for fundraising.
	tabling member constituency	Croydon North
	tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
	uin	2813
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2017 answer text <p>Government is committed to building the resilience and independence of smaller charities. Through our ongoing dialogue across the sector, we know that small charities want more support to fundraise effectively through better use of digital technology.</p><p>In recognition of this, the Office for Civil Society in England are providing a multi-year programme of fundraising training and support. This includes expert support to build the digital fundraising capabilities of small charities through face-to-face training, intensive one-to-one advice sessions, skilled volunteering matches and webinars.</p><p>The training will be provided at little or no cost and the providers will also develop and share fundraising training resources and toolkits to support small charities who might not be able to attend training.</p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 11/07/2017 10:14:09 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
	tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed