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	registered interest
	date	10/02/2020
	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	Tourist Attractions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps his Department is taking to improve access to cultural attractions outside London.
	tabling member constituency	Redditch
	tabling member printed	Rachel Maclean
	uin	900782
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/02/2020 answer text Through the Arts Council England (ACE), we are investing and promoting the arts and culture all around the country and will continue to do so.<p /><p>There continues to be a shift in the distribution of ACE's National Portfolio funding, with the amount of funding spent outside London increasing from 53.8% in 2012-15 to 60.3% in 2018-22.</p><p>As part of this, ACE expects the organisations they fund to ensure that their cultural offer is accessible to as many people as possible</p><p />A great example of ACE’s funded national portfolio organisations doing this is the New Wolsey Theatre in Ipswich, which hosts relaxed viewings of it’s performances in order to make them more accessible to those with dementia. answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately grouped question UIN 900783 question first answered 13/02/2020 10:39:33 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
	tabling member	4668 label Biography information for Rachel Maclean

1550285

	registered interest
	date	09/12/2022
	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	Online Safety Bill
	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 controlling and coercive behaviour will be listed as one of the priority offences under Schedule 7 of the Online Safety Bill.
	tabling member constituency	Redditch
	tabling member printed	Rachel Maclean
	uin	107143
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2022 answer text <p>The Online Safety Bill includes stringent provisions to tackle online violence against women and girls, including domestic abuse.</p><p>All in-scope services will need to proactively tackle priority illegal content. This includes a number of offences that disproportionately target women and girls, such as offences relating to sexual images, such as revenge and extreme pornography, harassment and cyberstalking. The Government has also announced its intention to add controlling or coercive behaviour as a priority offence during passage through the Lords.</p><p>All services will need to ensure that they have effective systems and processes in place to quickly take down other illegal content directed at women and girls once it has been reported or they become aware of its presence.</p><p>The Government has also announced its intention to use the Bill to criminalise the sharing of people's intimate images without their consent. This, in combination with the measures already in the Bill to make cyberflashing a criminal offence, will significantly strengthen protections for women.</p><p>The strongest protections in the Bill will be for children, ensuring that they are protected from content that is harmful to them. Additionally, major platforms will have a duty to ensure that all adult users, including women, will be able to exercise greater control over the content and other users they engage with. Women and girls will also benefit from better mechanisms to report abuse online.</p><p>We also announced our intention to name the Victims’ Commissioner and the Domestic Abuse Commissioner as Statutory Consultees for the codes of practice. These bodies will be consulted by Ofcom ahead of drafting and amending the codes of practice, ensuring the voices of those affected by these issues are reflected in the way this legislation works in practice.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully grouped question UIN 107142 107144 question first answered 15/12/2022 14:44:52 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
	tabling member	4668 label Biography information for Rachel Maclean

1550284

	registered interest
	date	09/12/2022
	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	Online Safety Bill
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if she will take steps to include specific provisions to tackle violence against women and girls in the Online Safety Bill.
	tabling member constituency	Redditch
	tabling member printed	Rachel Maclean
	uin	107142
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2022 answer text <p>The Online Safety Bill includes stringent provisions to tackle online violence against women and girls, including domestic abuse.</p><p>All in-scope services will need to proactively tackle priority illegal content. This includes a number of offences that disproportionately target women and girls, such as offences relating to sexual images, such as revenge and extreme pornography, harassment and cyberstalking. The Government has also announced its intention to add controlling or coercive behaviour as a priority offence during passage through the Lords.</p><p>All services will need to ensure that they have effective systems and processes in place to quickly take down other illegal content directed at women and girls once it has been reported or they become aware of its presence.</p><p>The Government has also announced its intention to use the Bill to criminalise the sharing of people's intimate images without their consent. This, in combination with the measures already in the Bill to make cyberflashing a criminal offence, will significantly strengthen protections for women.</p><p>The strongest protections in the Bill will be for children, ensuring that they are protected from content that is harmful to them. Additionally, major platforms will have a duty to ensure that all adult users, including women, will be able to exercise greater control over the content and other users they engage with. Women and girls will also benefit from better mechanisms to report abuse online.</p><p>We also announced our intention to name the Victims’ Commissioner and the Domestic Abuse Commissioner as Statutory Consultees for the codes of practice. These bodies will be consulted by Ofcom ahead of drafting and amending the codes of practice, ensuring the voices of those affected by these issues are reflected in the way this legislation works in practice.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully grouped question UIN 107143 107144 question first answered 15/12/2022 14:44:52 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
	tabling member	4668 label Biography information for Rachel Maclean

1550286

	registered interest
	date	09/12/2022
	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	Online Safety Bill
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how domestic abuse victims will be adequately protected through the Online Safety Bill.
	tabling member constituency	Redditch
	tabling member printed	Rachel Maclean
	uin	107144
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2022 answer text <p>The Online Safety Bill includes stringent provisions to tackle online violence against women and girls, including domestic abuse.</p><p>All in-scope services will need to proactively tackle priority illegal content. This includes a number of offences that disproportionately target women and girls, such as offences relating to sexual images, such as revenge and extreme pornography, harassment and cyberstalking. The Government has also announced its intention to add controlling or coercive behaviour as a priority offence during passage through the Lords.</p><p>All services will need to ensure that they have effective systems and processes in place to quickly take down other illegal content directed at women and girls once it has been reported or they become aware of its presence.</p><p>The Government has also announced its intention to use the Bill to criminalise the sharing of people's intimate images without their consent. This, in combination with the measures already in the Bill to make cyberflashing a criminal offence, will significantly strengthen protections for women.</p><p>The strongest protections in the Bill will be for children, ensuring that they are protected from content that is harmful to them. Additionally, major platforms will have a duty to ensure that all adult users, including women, will be able to exercise greater control over the content and other users they engage with. Women and girls will also benefit from better mechanisms to report abuse online.</p><p>We also announced our intention to name the Victims’ Commissioner and the Domestic Abuse Commissioner as Statutory Consultees for the codes of practice. These bodies will be consulted by Ofcom ahead of drafting and amending the codes of practice, ensuring the voices of those affected by these issues are reflected in the way this legislation works in practice.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully grouped question UIN 107142 107143 question first answered 15/12/2022 14:44:52 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
	tabling member	4668 label Biography information for Rachel Maclean