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173048

registered interest
date	12/01/2015
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: Lancashire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what the average (a) download and (b) upload speed in East Lancashire was on the latest date for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Pendle
tabling member printed	Andrew Stephenson
uin	220325
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2015 answer text <p>Ofcom published broadband speeds for counties and unitary authorities with its 2014 infrastructure report at <a href="http://infrastructure.ofcom.org.uk/" target="_blank">http://infrastructure.ofcom.org.uk/</a> saying that average download speeds in Lancashire were 20.7 Mbit/s and average upload speeds were 2.8 Mbit/s. Ofcom also published data for individual postcodes at <a href="http://www.ofcom.org.uk/static/research/ir/Fixed_postcode.zip" target="_blank">http://www.ofcom.org.uk/static/research/ir/Fixed_postcode.zip</a></p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 16/01/2015 11:19:00 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson

173052

registered interest
date	12/01/2015
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, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of work to increase broadband line speeds (a) from below 2 mbps to 10 mbps and (b) above 10 mbps to date.
tabling member constituency	Clwyd West
tabling member printed	Mr David Jones
uin	220396
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2015 answer text <p>Government, Local Authority and European Union funding combined has invested over £1.7billion to extend superfast coverage (download speeds of 24Mbps and above) to 95% premises in the UK by the end of 2017. This investment will also see universal coverage of basic broadband (2Mbps). There is no spend specifically to provide download speeds of 10Mbps.</p><p> </p><p>BDUK has spent a total of £254.33m to the end of December 2014 on rolling out Superfast Broadband. This includes £127.76m in annual budget transfers to the Devolved Administrations, which may not all have been spent on delivery to date.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 16/01/2015 11:15:18 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	1502 label Biography information for Mr David Jones

172884

registered interest
date	09/01/2015
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: Urban Areas
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 18 December 2014 to Question 218397, on broadband: urban areas, to which 28 cities his Department has written.
tabling member constituency	Rhondda
tabling member printed	Chris Bryant
uin	220287
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2015 answer text <p>The 28 cities invited to participate in the Connection Voucher Scheme are listed below.</p><p> </p><p>We have also invited the current 22 SuperConnected cities to continue with their connection voucher schemes for a further year.</p><p> </p><p>The final list of participating cities will be confirmed before the scheme goes live in April.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Liverpool</p></td><td><p>Dundee</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nottingham</p></td><td><p>Glasgow</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sheffield</p></td><td><p>Swansea</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sunderland</p></td><td><p>Chelmsford</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hull</p></td><td><p>Exeter</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Preston</p></td><td><p>Gloucester</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wolverhampton</p></td><td><p>Peterborough</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Leicester</p></td><td><p>Ipswich</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Norwich</p></td><td><p>Middlesbrough</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Plymouth</p></td><td><p>Milton Keynes</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Southampton</p></td><td><p>Reading</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Stoke on Trent</p></td><td><p>Southend on Sea</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Swindon</p></td><td><p>Bournemouth</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Stirling</p></td><td><p>Inverness</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 14/01/2015 08:54:56 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	1446 label Biography information for Sir Chris Bryant

172885

registered interest
date	09/01/2015
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	Government Art Collection
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 his Department has spent on the Government Art Collection in each year since May 2010.
tabling member constituency	Rhondda
tabling member printed	Chris Bryant
uin	220313
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2015 answer text <p>The table below sets out how much the Department has spent on the Government Art Collection (GAC) since May 2010. I have included figures for 2009-10 for the Hon. Member’s background and wider understanding.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td rowspan="3"><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Government Art Collection Administration Costs</p></td><td><p>GAC Collection Purchases</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>£</p></td><td><p>£</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>2009-10</p></td><td><p>1,027,077</p></td><td><p>323,464</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>954,237</p></td><td><p>208,527</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>923,619</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>942,712</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>937,770</p></td><td><p>116,985</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>There were no new purchases of artwork for the Collection in 2011-12 and 2012-13.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 14/01/2015 14:38:13 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	1446 label Biography information for Sir Chris Bryant

172886

registered interest
date	09/01/2015
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 Licences: Enforcement
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will take steps to prevent households which do not have a television receiving correspondence from the TV licensing Authority threatening them with legal action.
tabling member constituency	North Ayrshire and Arran
tabling member printed	Katy Clark
uin	220311
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2015 answer text <p>TV Licensing is responsible for all operational decisions regarding enforcement of the licence fee, including correspondence. Any changes to the enforcement regime, including outcomes from the TV Licence Fee Enforcement Review, would need to be considered as a part of the review of the BBC's Royal Charter.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 16/01/2015 09:52:47 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	1590 label Biography information for Baroness Clark of Kilwinning

172887

registered interest
date	09/01/2015
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 the County Durham, Oxfordshire, Hampshire, Essex and Wokingham phase 2 broadband projects produced coverage maps of their broadband implementation plans at a full 7-digit postcode level.
tabling member constituency	Rhondda
tabling member printed	Chris Bryant
uin	220308
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2015 answer text <p>County Durham, Essex and Berkshire (covering Wokingham) do not yet have contracts in place for their phase 2 broadband projects. Hampshire agreed its contract in November and Oxfordshire agreed its contract in December. Neither of these projects has yet been through the detailed planning and survey stage and they therefore do not have a confirmed deployment plan which would enable a coverage map to be produced.</p><p><br>All five have phase 1 coverage maps and links to 7 digit postcode checkers. BDUK has also made available a national 7 digit postcode checker which can be found at: <a href="http://gosuperfastchecker.culture.gov.uk/" target="_blank">http://gosuperfastchecker.culture.gov.uk/</a> .<br></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 16/01/2015 10:01:49 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	1446 label Biography information for Sir Chris Bryant

172888

registered interest
date	09/01/2015
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	Public Libraries
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, which recommendations in the Independent Library Report for England, published in December 2014, he (a) accepts and (b) rejects.
tabling member constituency	Rhondda
tabling member printed	Chris Bryant
uin	220312
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2015 answer text <p>We accept all the recommendations in the Independent Library Report for England. The solutions are practical and will help to continue to build strong, dynamic partnerships across the library sector.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 14/01/2015 14:10:42 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	1446 label Biography information for Sir Chris Bryant

172889

registered interest
date	09/01/2015
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: Urban Areas
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the Answer of 16 December 2014 to Question 217969, which four cities were considered and rejected in wave 1; which six cities were considered and rejected in wave 2; and for what reasons each city in each wave was rejected.
tabling member constituency	Rhondda
tabling member printed	Chris Bryant
uin	220292
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2015 answer text <p>The cities' bids for the SuperConnected Cities Programme (SCCP) were scored according to specific criteria, including governance, project management capacity and project vision. Winning bids were selected on the basis of those scores and the amount of money available.</p><p> </p><p>For wave 1 there were unsuccessful bids from Glasgow, Liverpool, Nottingham and Sheffield.</p><p> </p><p>For wave 2, there were unsuccessful bids from Dundee, Kingston-Upon-Hull, Preston, Sunderland, Swansea and Wolverhampton.</p><p> </p><p>All of these cities have been invited to participate in the Broadband Connection Vouchers Scheme from April 2015</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 14/01/2015 08:56:29 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	1446 label Biography information for Sir Chris Bryant

172890

registered interest
date	09/01/2015
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	Public Libraries: WiFi
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the recommendations of the Independent Library Report for England, published in December 2014, what estimate he has made of the cost of providing WiFi in all public libraries.
tabling member constituency	Rhondda
tabling member printed	Chris Bryant
uin	220293
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2015 answer text <p>The cost of providing WiFi in public libraries varies depending on a range of factors including the installation of WiFi only, the number of libraries that require access and the type of equipment needed, as well as the possibility of other organisations contributing resources. We are currently investigating all funding options. We are providing free WiFi in over 1000 public buildings in cities across the UK, including certain libraries as part of the £150m Super Connected Cities</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 14/01/2015 14:12:33 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	1446 label Biography information for Sir Chris Bryant

172891

registered interest
date	09/01/2015
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, what work his Department has done with local authorities in County Durham, Oxfordshire, Hampshire, Essex and Wokingham to identify, in relation to the broadband rollout, (a) alternative solutions, (b) joint working and fair capital contributions from suppliers and (c) other opportunities to promote competition and value for money.
tabling member constituency	Rhondda
tabling member printed	Chris Bryant
uin	220294
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2015 answer text <p>All the superfast broadband projects supported by the Department are procured through an EU compliant competitive procurement process. The value for money controls include the competitive procurements process itself, in-life cost management and assurance, and independent assurance reviews. The supplier is only compensated to the level required to make the projects commercially viable. If take-up exceeds an agreed baseline, the additional revenues are shared between the supplier and the public sector in proportion to their investments. The supplier takes the risk of take-up being lower than the baseline. The projects are all technology neutral at the procurement stage.</p><p>In Oxfordshire, as well as the County Council’s broadband project, the Department has supported the Northmoor project with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs through the Rural Community Broadband Fund, and it is providing support to the Cotswold Broadband project in West Oxfordshire.</p><p>The Department is also supporting market test projects to explore alternative superfast broadband solutions in Phase 3 of the Superfast Broadband Programme. One of those projects is in Hampshire. Details of all the pilot projects in Phase 3 are available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/321432/Successful_Bids_-_Final_Table.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/321432/Successful_Bids_-_Final_Table.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 16/01/2015 09:57:23 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	1446 label Biography information for Sir Chris Bryant