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1133781

	registered interest
	date	20/06/2019
	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	Gambling
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many adult gaming centres are currently in operation in the UK; and how many such centres were in operation in (1) June 2017, and (2) June 2018.
	tabling member printed	Lord Browne of Belmont
	uin	HL16532
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2019 answer text <p>The latest figures for the number of Adult Gaming Centre premises are from September 2018. The figures for each year are given in the table below.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="9"><p>Number of Adult Gaming Centre Premises</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>At 31 March 2011</p></td><td><p>At 31 March 2012</p></td><td><p>At 31 March 2013</p></td><td><p>At 31 March 2014</p></td><td><p>At 31 March 2015</p></td><td><p>At 31 March 2016</p></td><td><p>At 31 March 2017</p></td><td><p>At 31 March 2018</p></td><td><p>At 30 Sept 2018</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2,103</p></td><td><p>2,247</p></td><td><p>1,671</p></td><td><p>1,642</p></td><td><p>1,610</p></td><td><p>1,549</p></td><td><p>1,546</p></td><td><p>1,511</p></td><td><p>1,436</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>More information can be found in the Gambling Commission’s industry statistics at <a href="https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/news-action-and-statistics/Statistics-and-research/Statistics/Industry-statistics.aspx" target="_blank">https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/news-action-and-statistics/Statistics-and-research/Statistics/Industry-statistics.aspx</a></p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Ashton of Hyde question first answered 02/07/2019 15:32:02 answering member 4247 label Biography information for Lord Ashton of Hyde
	tabling member	3801 label Biography information for Lord Browne of Belmont

1133785

	registered interest
	date	20/06/2019
	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	Arts: Loneliness
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what progress they have made, as part of their loneliness strategy, with the Arts Council to promote the role that arts and culture can play in addressing loneliness and to promote examples of best practice in reducing social isolation.
	tabling member printed	Lord Foulkes of Cumnock
	uin	HL16536
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2019 answer text <p>In 2018’s Loneliness Strategy, Arts Council England (ACE) and DCMS committed to ensuring arts and culture are included in the development of social prescribing and we and ACE are working with DHSC and NHS England to ensure that the cultural sector is well represented in this work. ACE and DCMS are members the Social Prescribing Taskforce, and are working with NHS England and others.</p><p> </p><p>ACE also continue to promote best practice for the role that arts and culture has in improving people’s wellbeing through case studies and programmes such as Celebrating Age, and Creative People and Places. The Celebrating Age programme has funded 32 projects that seek to increase engagement of older people with the arts, some of which focus specifically on tackling isolation. Likewise, the Creative People and Places programme also includes projects that incorporate these issues. Research from the programmes , and individual projects, is regularly published.</p><p> </p><p>ACE recently partnered with the APPG for Arts, Health and Wellbeing and others to support the Southbank Centre's Creative Health conference in June, which highlighted the role arts and culture can play in wellbeing, including in tackling social isolation. he Southbank Centre - one of ACE’s largest National Portfolio Organisations - announced its intention to address loneliness as part of their health and wellbeing programming.</p><p> </p><p>ACE also seeks to address loneliness through its investment in libraries and library-based projects. These initiatives bring people together through reading, promote learning new skills, and encourage participation in clubs, among several others.</p><p> </p><p>To continue to promote best practice to tackle loneliness and social isolation, ACE continue to participate in the APPG on Arts, Health and Wellbeing, and now sit on the APPG for Loneliness; and has proposed the convening of a joint session between these two groups.</p> answering member printed Lord Ashton of Hyde question first answered 02/07/2019 15:30:37 answering member 4247 label Biography information for Lord Ashton of Hyde
	tabling member	579 label Biography information for Lord Foulkes of Cumnock

1133786

	registered interest
	date	20/06/2019
	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	Arts: Loneliness
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what progress they have made, as part of their loneliness strategy, with Arts Council England to use the new loneliness measure across relevant projects and programmes.
	tabling member printed	Lord Foulkes of Cumnock
	uin	HL16537
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2019 answer text <p>Arts Council England (ACE) has been in close contact with DCMS through the development of the Loneliness Strategy, including the development of the new loneliness measure; and has incorporated the measure into current thinking for the evaluation of relevant future programmes that may emerge, as the organisation finalises its new ten-year strategy (due to be launched in 2020).</p><p> </p><p>This is further informed by ACE’s participation in the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Conceptual Review of Loneliness, and also links to recent work, led by HOME Manchester, on how the creative and cultural sectors respond to the need to evidence the social impact of their activities.</p> answering member printed Lord Ashton of Hyde question first answered 02/07/2019 15:31:05 answering member 4247 label Biography information for Lord Ashton of Hyde
	tabling member	579 label Biography information for Lord Foulkes of Cumnock

1133787

	registered interest
	date	20/06/2019
	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	Loneliness
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what progress they have made, as part of their loneliness strategy, with (1) the set up and running of masterclasses, and  (2) measuring the impact of library services in reducing loneliness.
	tabling member printed	Lord Foulkes of Cumnock
	uin	HL16538
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2019 answer text <p>The Libraries Taskforce ran masterclasses on measuring impact in August 2018 and on conducting evaluations in March 2019. These focussed on ways of measuring the impact of library services on its users including in reducing loneliness. The intention was to equip local library services with the ability to measure activities and impacts within their own communities.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member printed Lord Ashton of Hyde question first answered 02/07/2019 15:31:25 answering member 4247 label Biography information for Lord Ashton of Hyde
	tabling member	579 label Biography information for Lord Foulkes of Cumnock

1133788

	registered interest
	date	20/06/2019
	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	Loneliness
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking, as part of their loneliness strategy, to lead cross-Government work on tackling loneliness.
	tabling member printed	Lord Foulkes of Cumnock
	uin	HL16539
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2019 answer text <p>The Ministerial group on loneliness chaired by the Minister for Sport and Civil Society continues to oversee the delivery of the 60 commitments in the loneliness strategy alongside considering further opportunities to tackle loneliness across Government. Departments are providing officials to resource a cross-government team to lead the loneliness work. Government will include an update on progress in its first annual report on tackling loneliness, which we expect to be published later in 2019.</p> answering member printed Lord Ashton of Hyde question first answered 02/07/2019 15:31:38 answering member 4247 label Biography information for Lord Ashton of Hyde
	tabling member	579 label Biography information for Lord Foulkes of Cumnock

1133813

	registered interest
	date	20/06/2019
	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	Festival UK* 2022
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what progress they have made with preparations for the Festival of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in 2022.
	tabling member printed	Lord Rogan
	uin	HL16564
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2019 answer text <p>We are in the early stages of planning the Festival 2022 which will be led by a Festival Director who, once appointed, will work with their team and collaborate across the sectors to create a range of exciting events across the UK. The department is currently working through the delivery options, and we expect to share more details on the Festival later in the year.</p> answering member printed Lord Ashton of Hyde question first answered 01/07/2019 13:20:27 answering member 4247 label Biography information for Lord Ashton of Hyde
	tabling member	2478 label Biography information for Lord Rogan

1133551

	registered interest
	date	20/06/2019
	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	Internet: Children and Young People
	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 he is taking to protect (a) vulnerable children, (b) young people, (c) young carers and (d) people in the care system through regulation of the internet.
	tabling member constituency	Ogmore
	tabling member printed	Chris Elmore
	uin	267237
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2019 answer text <p>The Online Harms White Paper sets out our plans for world-leading legislation to make the UK the safest place in the world to be online. This will make companies more responsible for their users’ safety online, especially children and other vulnerable groups. We will establish in law a new duty of care on companies towards their users, overseen by an independent regulator. This regulator will set clear safety standards, through codes of practice, backed up by mandatory reporting requirements and effective enforcement powers.</p><p> </p><p>At the same time as the White Paper, the Government published the Social Media Code of Practice, which sets out actions that the Government believes providers of social media platforms should take to prevent bullying, insulting, intimidating and humiliating behaviours on their sites.</p><p> </p><p>In addition to providing children with the tools to go online safely, we already expect companies to protect them from inappropriate content. Ahead of the new regulatory framework, we will produce a new, additional draft code of practice focusing specifically on child online safety. The draft code will set our expectations about what is required to keep children safe and will examine existing resources available, including whether specific guidance should be available to parents and carers.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 26/06/2019 16:07:23 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	4572 label Biography information for Chris Elmore

1133576

	registered interest
	date	20/06/2019
	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 Licences: Older People
	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 discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care on the potential health effects on pensioners who are unable to pay the TV license fee; and what steps the Government is taking to tackle potential social isolation among those pensioners.
	tabling member constituency	Preston
	tabling member printed	Sir Mark Hendrick
	uin	267184
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2019 answer text <p>The Secretary of State has regular discussions with the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care on a range of matters. The Government is taking steps to address potential loneliness, including appointing a minister to lead work on tackling loneliness and publishing the world’s first government strategy on loneliness, as well as securing £20million of new grant-funding for projects run by charities and community groups to bring people together.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 26/06/2019 16:02:57 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick

1133743

	registered interest
	date	20/06/2019
	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	Fairgrounds
	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 he is taking to support the fairs and showmen industry.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	uin	267227
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2019 answer text <p>The government strongly believes in the benefits that the arts and creative industries bring to the UK, including the commercial entertainment industry of which fairs and show people are a key part. The cultural and creative industries are some of the fastest growing sectors of the UK economy and government is committed to assisting them to continue to grow.</p><p> </p><p>Arts Council England also funds a number of local festivals and circus arts, which covers some performing arts organisations as well as individuals who practice circus-related skills. For example, in 2018/19 ACE provided almost £4 million of funding to projects and organisations whose primary sub-discipline was circus related activity.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 27/06/2019 11:50:46 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell