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604732

	registered interest
	date	18/10/2016
	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	Football: Corruption
	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 the Football Association on recent corruption scandals.
	tabling member constituency	Gloucester
	tabling member printed	Richard Graham
	uin	49080
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2016 answer text <p>Both the Secretary of State and I spoke to the FA following the recent allegations made by the Daily Telegraph, and they confirmed they are working across football to investigate. It is important that the FA demonstrates good governance of their sport, and that includes dealing effectively with those that look to tarnish its reputation. All the evidence presented to them must be investigated fully and the Government stands ready to assist in any way we can.</p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 21/10/2016 07:36:29 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
	tabling member	3990 label Biography information for Richard Graham

604734

	registered interest
	date	18/10/2016
	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	Football Association: Cost Effectiveness
	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 made of the value gained for the public of Government funds given to the Football Association in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Gloucester
	tabling member printed	Richard Graham
	uin	49081
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2016 answer text <p>Football continues to be the nation’s most popular team sport, with over 1.5m more weekly participants than any other team sport. Public funding has gone into programmes delivered by the FA that sustain that interest and also that encourage more people from all ages and backgrounds to take part in the sport.</p><br /><p>Sport England has challenged the FA to deliver results for the public money it receives. In 2014, £1.6million was taken away after the FA failed to reverse a decline in the number of people regularly playing the sport.</p><p> </p><p>Since then, outdoor 5-a-side football has seen an increase in participation from 744,200 people per week in 2010 (APS4) to 795,700 in 2016 (APS10 Q2) showing changing customer demands which the FA must continue to respond to.</p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 21/10/2016 07:37:34 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
	tabling member	3990 label Biography information for Richard Graham

604736

	registered interest
	date	18/10/2016
	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: 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 her Department plans to take to increase the number of disabled people participating in sport.
	tabling member constituency	Sunderland Central
	tabling member printed	Julie Elliott
	uin	49136
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2016 answer text <p>Government is committed to increasing opportunities for disabled people to get involved in sport and physical activity. Our sport strategy, 'Sporting Future: A New Strategy for an Active Nation', places a much greater emphasis than before on encouraging under-represented groups, including disabled people, to take part in sport and physical activity.</p><p> </p><p>Sport England's new strategy,Towards an Active Nation, which was published in May, sets out how it intends to deliver against the government’s sport strategy. It will continue to support people who already play sport but it also has a specific focus on those groups who are less likely to take part in sport and physical activity, including disabled people.</p><p> </p><p>Between 2011 and 2017, Sport England is investing over £170 million to get more disabled people playing sport.</p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 21/10/2016 07:28:32 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
	tabling member	4127 label Biography information for Julie Elliott

604737

	registered interest
	date	18/10/2016
	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	Inheritance Tax and Nuisance Calls
	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 (a) reduce nuisance calls and (b) give advice to companies on how to contact the public appropriately on inheritance tax issues.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	49119
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2016 answer text <p>Companies who wish to make direct marking calls must abide by the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations(PECR). The Government has already taken a number of steps to reduce the problem of nuisance calls with further measures to be implemented in the near future. In May 2016, the Government introduced a new requirement for all direct marketing callers to provide caller line identification. In September 2016 we introduced a measure in the Digital Economy Bill that in currently going through Parliament that will make it a requirement for the Information Commissioner to issue a statutory code of practice on direct marketing, which will support the ICO in taking action against those who breach PECR. More recently, we announced the Governments intention to hold company directors to account for breaches of the PECR. In addition, the Government is considering extending the Information Commissioner's powers of compulsory audit to organisations that generate nuisance calls. This measure amongst other measures will provide better consumer protection, from unsolicited telephone calls.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Gov.UK website, provides information about inheritance tax and the support available from the Inheritance Tax and Probate helpline. HMRC works with advisers to direct them and the public to this.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 26/10/2016 13:09:25 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

604739

	registered interest
	date	18/10/2016
	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	Television: South Wales
	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 are being taken to improve television reception in the South Wales valleys.
	tabling member constituency	Ogmore
	tabling member printed	Chris Elmore
	uin	49257
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2016 answer text <p>Under a 2006 agreement, digital terrestrial, cable and satellite digital television services together cover practically all UK households, so that in all but the most exceptional of cases, everyone should be able to get free-to-air digital television, by one means or another.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 26/10/2016 15:41:57 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	4572 label Biography information for Chris Elmore

604740

	registered interest
	date	18/10/2016
	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	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, whether her Department has made an assessment of the implications for its policies of the recommendations on improving digital accessibility for disabled people of the Extra Costs Commission, initiated by the disability charity Scope in July 2014.
	tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
	tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
	uin	49276
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2016 answer text <p>Government is committed to increasing digital inclusion for all, and are taking steps to increase web accessibility for disabled people. The DCMS-led Council for Digital Inclusion includes members who represent the interests of disabled people. The Government has also published guidance on Gov.UK on making digital services accessible for Government departments, local authorities and anyone else who wants to prepare accessible communications.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 21/10/2016 08:44:43 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

605497

	registered interest
	date	18/10/2016
	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	Charities: Pay
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their assessment of the current levels of, and recent increases in, the total remuneration paid to the executive heads of the major charities in England and Wales.
	tabling member printed	Lord Patten
	uin	HL2417
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2016 answer text <p>Charity trustees, almost all of whom are unpaid, set levels of executive remuneration and must do so acting in the best interests of the charity. A 2014 study by The National Council for Voluntary Organisations found that senior executives in charities were generally paid substantially less than for similar roles in the public or private sectors. Charities are legally required to provide details of the number of staff in pay bands over £60,000 in their publicly available annual reports, and many charities go further in their accountability and publish full details as a matter of good practice.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Ashton of Hyde question first answered 25/10/2016 16:02:32 answering member 4247 label Biography information for Lord Ashton of Hyde
	tabling member	1137 label Biography information for Lord Patten

605504

	registered interest
	date	18/10/2016
	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	BBC: Royal Charters
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the remarks by Lord Ashton of Hyde on 12 October (HL Deb, col 1996), whether they will clarify when the noble Lords can expect to receive written responses to the points they raised during the debate.
	tabling member printed	Lord Lester of Herne Hill
	uin	HL2424
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2016 answer text <p>A letter was sent to the Noble Lord and deposited in the House of Lords Library on Thursday 21st October.</p> answering member printed Lord Ashton of Hyde question first answered 26/10/2016 11:19:21 answering member 4247 label Biography information for Lord Ashton of Hyde
	tabling member	2037 label Biography information for Lord Lester of Herne Hill

605785

	registered interest
	date	19/10/2016
	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 Action Group
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when the Youth Action Group last met; who attended that meeting; and what the current membership of that group is.
	tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
	tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
	uin	49475
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2016 answer text <p>The last Youth Action Group meeting was 25 Nov 2014. A Youth Action Group Workshop was held on 24 Feb 2015.</p><p> </p><p>Youth Action Group members and meeting participants were drawn from the government departments and national charities that develop policy and deliver programmes for disadvantaged young people. These included the following:</p><ul><li>Government: Cabinet Office, Department for Education, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, Department for Work and Pensions, Department for Communities and Local Government, Ministry of Justice, Home Office, Department for Health and Ministry of Defence; and</li><li>VCSE sector: The Prince’s Trust, Rathbone, The Foyer Federation, Catch22, Groundwork, Barnardo’s, Youth United, YoungMinds, Brook and Action for Children</li></ul><p> </p><p>There are no current plans for this group to meet.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Reading East answering member printed Mr Rob Wilson question first answered 24/10/2016 16:30:43 answering member 1556 label Biography information for Mr Rob Wilson
	tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

605832

	registered interest
	date	19/10/2016
	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	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of establishing a statutory social tariff for broadband services.
	tabling member constituency	Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey
	tabling member printed	Drew Hendry
	uin	49373
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2016 answer text <p>We are committed to introducing a new broadband Universal Service Obligation (USO) within this Parliament. The USO will give households and businesses the legal right to request a broadband connection with speeds of at least 10 Megabits, no matter where they live or work.</p><p> </p><p>Ofcom are preparing advice and recommendations for Government on the design of the broadband USO, and we have asked them specifically to consider a social tariff to make sure it is affordable for all. Ofcom will report on its findings by the end of the year and we will consider them as part of our decision.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 27/10/2016 09:38:57 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	4467 label Biography information for Drew Hendry