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1436922

registered interest
date	01/03/2022
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	Disinformation: Russia
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the oral contribution of the Prime Minister, Official Report, Thursday 24 February 2022, volume 709, what plans she has to address Russian state-sponsored misinformation.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	132252
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2022 answer text <p>The Government takes the issue of disinformation very seriously. The Counter Disinformation Unit is working closely with the new Government Information Cell (GIC) to identify and counter Russian disinformation targeted at UK and international audiences. The GIC brings together expertise from across government including - but not limited to - FCDO, MoD, DCMS and CO experts in assessment and analysis, disinformation, and behaviour and attitudinal change.</p><p>We have been working closely with the major social media platforms to monitor and share information as the situation in Ukraine develops. We have made clear the seriousness of the current situation and the importance of cooperating at speed on countering these threats including swiftly removing disinformation and coordinated inauthentic or manipulated behaviour which is against their terms of service and promoting authoritative content.</p><p>As the Secretary of State set out in her statement to Parliament on 3 March, RT's broadcast news channel has been shut down on Freeview, Freesat and Sky. The Government welcomes the action Youtube has taken to prevent access to RT in the UK and the Secretary of State has written to other major platforms, including Meta and TikTok on this subject asking them to do all they can in preventing access to RT in the UK.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 07/03/2022 18:01:10 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1436985

registered interest
date	01/03/2022
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	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport: Social Clubs
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 provide a list of (a) professional staff networks and (b) social clubs operating within his Department; and if she will provide the (i) budgets and (ii) FTE staff time allocated to each group within each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Orpington
tabling member printed	Gareth Bacon
uin	132387
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2022 answer text <p>(a) DCMS has the following staff networks:</p><ul><li><p>Ability Network (Beyond Disability)</p></li><li><p>Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) Network</p></li><li><p>Carers Network</p></li><li><p>Direct Appointee Network</p></li><li><p>EU Nationals Network</p></li><li><p>Faith and Belief Network</p></li><li><p>Fair Treatment Ambassadors</p></li><li><p>Flexible Working and Job Share Network</p></li><li><p>Gender Equality Network</p></li><li><p>Grade B Network (HEO / SEO Grade equivalent)</p></li><li><p>Grade C&amp;D Network (AO &amp; EO Grade equivalent)</p></li><li><p>Green Network</p></li><li><p>Ideas Panel Network</p></li><li><p>LGBT+ Network</p></li><li><p>Mental Health and Wellbeing Network</p></li><li><p>New Joiner Network</p></li><li><p>North Network</p></li><li><p>Parenting Network Group</p></li><li><p>Social Mobility Network</p></li><li><p>South West Network</p></li><li><p>Volunteering Network</p></li></ul><p>(b) The Sports and Social Network is a Network for all staff to access and organise sport and social activity in DCMS. The social clubs that currently operate within this network include:</p><ul><li><p>Choir</p></li><li><p>Football teams:</p></li><ul><li><p>London Men’s team</p></li><li><p>London Women's team</p></li><li><p>Manchester team</p></li></ul><li><p>Netball</p></li><li><p>Film Club</p></li><li><p>Book Club</p></li><li><p>Bake Club</p></li><li><p>Board Games</p></li><li><p>Meditation Club</p></li></ul><p>(i) Budgets allocated to each group within each of the last three years</p><p>The annual budget allocated to all network activity is £10,000. This has been the same for the past three years. Networks are able to access funding on a case by case basis for events or training.</p><p>(ii) FTE staff time allocated to each group within each of the last three years</p><p>FTE staff are not allocated to networks, the role of network chair is a voluntary role and as such the time they allocate to each network is not recorded or reported upon. As part of the DCMS ‘business deal’ for network chairs, in agreement with line management and subject to business need, 10% of the network chair’s working hours can be allocated to network activity increasing to up to 20% in periods of high demand.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hornchurch and Upminster answering member printed Julia Lopez question first answered 09/03/2022 09:07:15 answering member 4647 label Biography information for Julia Lopez
tabling member	4798 label Biography information for Gareth Bacon

1437011

registered interest
date	01/03/2022
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	Food: Advertising
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, when she plans to publish guidance on the brand advertising exemption from advertising restrictions contained in the Health and Care Bill.
tabling member constituency	North East Bedfordshire
tabling member printed	Richard Fuller
uin	132228
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2022 answer text <p>The brand advertising exemption referred to in the government’s 2021 consultation response on less healthy food and drink advertising is not expressly referred to in the Health and Care Bill, as the scope of the restrictions extend only to the advertising of identifiable less healthy food and drink products. This means that brand advertising is out of scope, and provided that there are no identifiable products, food and drink brands can continue to advertise.</p><p>It is the government’s intention to work with regulators to ensure that clear guidance is available for businesses to understand all elements of the restrictions and ensure their compliance. This will include providing more detail on brand advertising. We expect this guidance to be made available for consultation later this year. The exact timing is a matter for regulators.</p> answering member constituency Hornchurch and Upminster answering member printed Julia Lopez question first answered 04/03/2022 13:56:35 answering member 4647 label Biography information for Julia Lopez
tabling member	3912 label Biography information for Richard Fuller

1437140

registered interest
date	01/03/2022
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	Fraud: Advertising
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 steps she is taking to ensure that large (a) tech and (b) social media companies take legal responsibility for preventing scam ads from running on their sites.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North
tabling member printed	Patrick Grady
uin	132290
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2022 answer text <p>We recognise the devastating impact of scam adverts on people in the UK. The Department is determined to take action to ensure that, where advertising is used as a mechanism to perpetrate fraud, there is a strong regulatory framework to combat it.</p><p>The Government remains deeply concerned about the psychological and financial impact of fraudulent advertising, and has engaged widely with stakeholders on this issue. The draft Online Safety Bill has been subject to pre-legislative scrutiny by a Joint Committee which reported with its recommendations, including on scam ads, on 14 December. We will consider the Committee’s recommendations and are committed to introducing the Bill as soon as possible.</p><p>Through the Online Advertising Programme, my Department will tackle the range of challenges posed by online advertising, including fraud. This work will include ensuring that all actors involved take responsibility to tackle this problem, including large ad funded platforms and social media companies who are not currently regulated. The Online Advertising Programme consultation will launch imminently, after which we will seek the earliest possible legislative vehicle to bring forward reform.</p> answering member constituency Hornchurch and Upminster answering member printed Julia Lopez question first answered 07/03/2022 12:21:52 answering member 4647 label Biography information for Julia Lopez
tabling member	4432 label Biography information for Patrick Grady

1437298

registered interest
date	01/03/2022
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	Social Media: Belarus and Russia
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to encourage social media platforms to suspend the accounts of the political leaders from (1) Russia, and (2) Belarus.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL6559
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2022 answer text <p>The Government has been working closely with the major social media platforms to monitor and share information as the situation in Ukraine develops. We have made clear the seriousness of the current situation and the importance of cooperating speedily in countering these threats. This includes the social media platforms swiftly removing disinformation and coordinated inauthentic or manipulated behaviour which is against their terms of service and promoting authoritative content.</p><p>We welcome the decisions of major platforms, including Meta, Twitter and YouTube, to restrict posts, accounts and/or advertisements run by Russian state media. As the Secretary of State set out in her statement to Parliament on 3 March, we will continue to work with these platforms to counter Russia’s aggression and support the people fighting for their survival in Ukraine.</p><p>More widely, the cross-Whitehall Counter Disinformation Unit brings together monitoring and analysis capabilities from across Government to understand the scope, scale, and nature of disinformation and misinformation and to work with partners to tackle it. We regularly engage with social media platforms to flag content that we consider to be particularly harmful. Where this content breaches their own terms and conditions, we expect platforms to remove it promptly.</p> answering member printed Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay question first answered 14/03/2022 14:04:58 answering member 4728 label Biography information for Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

1437299

registered interest
date	01/03/2022
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	Television: Russia
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to ban Russian state-backed television channels.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL6560
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2022 answer text <p>As the Secretary of State set out in her statement to the House of Commons on 3 March 2022, Vladimir Putin must not be allowed to exploit our open and free media to spread poisonous propaganda into British homes.</p><p>I am pleased to say that RT has already been removed from Sky, Freeview and Freesat in the UK, meaning that Putin cannot push out his propaganda on UK television. I also welcome Ofcom’s announcement of 27 investigations into RT, and their confirmation that they are considering RT’s UK broadcasting licence.</p><p>The Secretary of State has written to the major platforms, asking them to do everything they can to prevent access to RT online in the UK, as they have done in Europe, and we are glad that YouTube and Meta have already done so.</p> answering member printed Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay question first answered 07/03/2022 17:12:44 answering member 4728 label Biography information for Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

1436312

registered interest
date	28/02/2022
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	Dormant Assets Scheme: Loneliness
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what consideration, if any, they have given to using funds derived from dormant assets in England to combat loneliness; and whether using funds for this purpose will be included as an option in the first public consultation under section 18A of the Dormant Bank and Building Society Accounts Act 2008.
tabling member printed	Lord Bassam of Brighton
uin	HL6475
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2022 answer text <p>Until the Dormant Assets Act which has just received Royal Assent, dormant assets funding in England had to be spent on youth, financial inclusion, and social investment. Given this restriction, which was set in primary legislation, the Government was not able to consider other causes such as loneliness.</p><p>We have now expanded the Scheme, and new primary legislation enables greater flexibility to consider evolving social and environmental needs in England. In line with the Dormant Assets Act [2022], the first consultation launched for the expanded Scheme will include youth, financial inclusion, social investment wholesalers, and community wealth funds as options. As part of the consultation, which will be launched as soon as this Summer, respondents will be able suggest formally alternative causes for which the English portion could be used, including loneliness.</p> answering member printed Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay question first answered 15/03/2022 11:45:05 answering member 4728 label Biography information for Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay
tabling member	3504 label Biography information for Lord Bassam of Brighton

1436313

registered interest
date	28/02/2022
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	Musicians: EU Countries
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to introduce measures to assist young musicians wishing to tour in the EU; and whether any such plans will be introduced before the end of July.
tabling member printed	Lord Bassam of Brighton
uin	HL6476
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2022 answer text <p>The Government recognises that there are new requirements for creative workers to work and tour in the EU, including for young musicians. The Government has sought to clarify these new arrangements, which are in many cases more workable than has at times been reported. For example, the vast majority of EU Member States have confirmed that they offer visa and work permit-free routes for touring professionals, including most recently Bulgaria and Croatia. Portable musical instruments, carried or in a vehicle, can be transported cost-free and should not require ATA Carnets. We have also confirmed that splitter vans are not subject to the Trade and Cooperation Agreement requirements on haulage, which is particularly important for emerging artists.</p><p>The Government supports our young and emerging artists across the UK through a range of export support programmes, including the Music Export Growth Scheme and the International Showcase Fund, which help musicians to break into international markets. The Government has also established a new Export Support Service from which UK artists can get answers to practical questions about working in Europe.</p> answering member printed Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay question first answered 14/03/2022 13:55:57 answering member 4728 label Biography information for Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay
tabling member	3504 label Biography information for Lord Bassam of Brighton

1436351

registered interest
date	28/02/2022
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	Companies: Surveillance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to regulate companies' use of technological systems to monitor people.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL6516
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2022 answer text <p>Organisations that process personal data for the purposes of monitoring their activities or surveillance must comply with the requirements of the UK General Data Protection Regulation and the Data Protection Act 2018. This means that the data processing must be fair, lawful and transparent. Any adverse impact of monitoring on individuals must be necessary, proportionate and justified by the benefits to the organisation and others. A Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) would usually be required, particularly where the processing involves the use of new technologies, or the novel application of existing technologies.</p><p>Where people’s biometric data are processed, such as through fingerprint, voice or facial recognition technology, companies would generally need to conduct a DPIA. Companies conducting live facial recognition would generally need to show that processing was necessary for one of a limited number of specified reasons of substantial public interest - for instance, preventing or detecting unlawful acts. They would also need to show that specific conditions and safeguards were met.</p><p>The Information Commissioner’s Office is the UK’s independent regulator for data protection and has published extensive guidance to help organisations comply with their data protection obligations. This includes <a href="https://ico.org.uk/media/for-organisations/documents/1064/the_employment_practices_code.pdf" target="_blank">guidance</a> for employers on the rules in relation to monitoring of employees, as well as <a href="https://ico.org.uk/global/data-protection-and-coronavirus-information-hub/coronavirus-recovery-data-protection-advice-for-organisations/surveillance/" target="_blank">guidance</a> on monitoring employees in connection with Covid-19 related measures.</p><p>The Information Commissioner has also published an <a href="https://ico.org.uk/media/2619985/ico-opinion-the-use-of-lfr-in-public-places-20210618.pdf" target="_blank">opinion</a> on the non-law enforcement use of live facial recognition technology in public spaces which explain the requirements of the legislation and stress that data protection and people’s privacy must be at the heart of any decisions to deploy live facial recognition technology in public spaces.</p> answering member printed Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay question first answered 14/03/2022 13:58:44 answering member 4728 label Biography information for Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

1436485

registered interest
date	28/02/2022
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	Television: Children
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 plans her Department has to support children’s television industry after the closure of the Youth Audience Content Fund.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
uin	131312
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2022 answer text <p>The UK Government is committed to ensuring that young listeners and viewers benefit from a modern system of public service broadcasting (PSB) that remains relevant and can continue to meet the needs of UK audiences in the future. That is why we are conducting a strategic review of PSB – drawing on the work of Ofcom, the Select Committees in both Houses of Parliament, and the government’s own expert PSB Advisory Panel – to work out how best to achieve this in light of the challenges the sector is currently facing.</p><p>The three-year pilot Young Audiences Content Fund was designed to test a new way of financing public service TV content. A full evaluation of the pilot Fund will take place following its conclusion to determine its impact on the children’s television industry and the provision and plurality of public service content for young audiences across the UK. The potential of further investment of public funding will be assessed against the Fund evaluation and alongside future public service broadcasting needs.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hornchurch and Upminster answering member printed Julia Lopez question first answered 07/03/2022 10:38:13 answering member 4647 label Biography information for Julia Lopez
tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan