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1488898

registered interest
date	13/07/2022
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Music: Copyright
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment his Department has made of the potential financial impact on the UK music industry of his decision to expand the text and data mining exception.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	35871
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2022 answer text <p>The Government asked specific questions about impact in the consultation on AI and IP, but received very limited quantitative evidence. An impact assessment will be published alongside the legislation when laid. The proposed exception will be targeted to limit negative impacts, and the government welcomes further evidence from rights holders on how to best achieve this</p> answering member constituency Loughborough answering member printed Jane Hunt question first answered 18/07/2022 16:29:04 answering member 4839 label Biography information for Jane Hunt
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

1488095

registered interest
date	11/07/2022
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: Public Service Broadcasting
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 make an assessment of the potential merits of ensuring that all public service broadcaster output that conforms with Ofcom regulations remains visible on social media platforms.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	33716
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2022 answer text <p>The Online Safety Bill will ensure content from all public service broadcasters is protected on social media platforms.</p><p> </p><p>The Bill exempts recognised news publishers’ content from tech platforms’ new online safety duties. This means tech companies will be under no legal obligation to apply their new safety duties to that content. The criteria under which an organisation qualifies as a recognised news publisher are set in the Bill. They include the BBC, S4C and other public service broadcasters who publish news-related material.</p><p> </p><p>The largest and riskiest services, Category 1 service providers, will also need to set and enforce policies to ensure that the importance of journalistic content is taken into account when making moderation decisions. This will cover journalistic content published by public service broadcasters.</p><p> </p><p>Parliament has just approved amendments to the Online Safety Bill tabled by the government to further strengthen the protections for recognised news publisher content. Category 1 service providers will be required to notify news publishers and offer them a right of appeal before removing or moderating their content or taking any action against their accounts. This will ensure content from news publishers, including UK public service broadcasters, are not arbitrarily removed at the height of the news cycle. These protections would not apply to news publisher content where this content would give rise to civil or criminal liability for the service, or where it amounts to a relevant offence as defined by the Bill.</p> answering member constituency Folkestone and Hythe answering member printed Damian Collins grouped question UIN 33717 33718 question first answered 14/07/2022 07:27:14 answering member 3986 label Biography information for Damian Collins
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

1488099

registered interest
date	11/07/2022
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: Public Service Broadcasting
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 assessment she has made of the potential merits of ensuring that regulations requiring social media companies to remove specific content are not applicable to Public Service Broadcasting output.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	33717
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2022 answer text <p>The Online Safety Bill will ensure content from all public service broadcasters is protected on social media platforms.</p><p> </p><p>The Bill exempts recognised news publishers’ content from tech platforms’ new online safety duties. This means tech companies will be under no legal obligation to apply their new safety duties to that content. The criteria under which an organisation qualifies as a recognised news publisher are set in the Bill. They include the BBC, S4C and other public service broadcasters who publish news-related material.</p><p> </p><p>The largest and riskiest services, Category 1 service providers, will also need to set and enforce policies to ensure that the importance of journalistic content is taken into account when making moderation decisions. This will cover journalistic content published by public service broadcasters.</p><p> </p><p>Parliament has just approved amendments to the Online Safety Bill tabled by the government to further strengthen the protections for recognised news publisher content. Category 1 service providers will be required to notify news publishers and offer them a right of appeal before removing or moderating their content or taking any action against their accounts. This will ensure content from news publishers, including UK public service broadcasters, are not arbitrarily removed at the height of the news cycle. These protections would not apply to news publisher content where this content would give rise to civil or criminal liability for the service, or where it amounts to a relevant offence as defined by the Bill.</p> answering member constituency Folkestone and Hythe answering member printed Damian Collins grouped question UIN 33716 33718 question first answered 14/07/2022 07:27:14 answering member 3986 label Biography information for Damian Collins
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

1488100

registered interest
date	11/07/2022
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	Internet: Public Service Broadcasting
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 recent assessment she has made of the potential effect of provisions in the Online Safety Bill in relation to (a) exemptions for journalistic content and (b) content of democratic importance on protections for all Public Service Broadcasters.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	33718
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2022 answer text <p>The Online Safety Bill will ensure content from all public service broadcasters is protected on social media platforms.</p><p> </p><p>The Bill exempts recognised news publishers’ content from tech platforms’ new online safety duties. This means tech companies will be under no legal obligation to apply their new safety duties to that content. The criteria under which an organisation qualifies as a recognised news publisher are set in the Bill. They include the BBC, S4C and other public service broadcasters who publish news-related material.</p><p> </p><p>The largest and riskiest services, Category 1 service providers, will also need to set and enforce policies to ensure that the importance of journalistic content is taken into account when making moderation decisions. This will cover journalistic content published by public service broadcasters.</p><p> </p><p>Parliament has just approved amendments to the Online Safety Bill tabled by the government to further strengthen the protections for recognised news publisher content. Category 1 service providers will be required to notify news publishers and offer them a right of appeal before removing or moderating their content or taking any action against their accounts. This will ensure content from news publishers, including UK public service broadcasters, are not arbitrarily removed at the height of the news cycle. These protections would not apply to news publisher content where this content would give rise to civil or criminal liability for the service, or where it amounts to a relevant offence as defined by the Bill.</p> answering member constituency Folkestone and Hythe answering member printed Damian Collins grouped question UIN 33716 33717 question first answered 14/07/2022 07:27:14 answering member 3986 label Biography information for Damian Collins
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

1470322

registered interest
date	14/06/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Home Office: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of applications to her Department in each customer group were processed within the time stipulated by the customer service standard since 1 January 2022.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	17888
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2022 answer text <p>The Home Office has been prioritising visa applications in response to the humanitarian crisis arising from the invasion of Ukraine.</p><p> </p><p>Information on how <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FUKVI&amp;data=05%7C01%7CVSIDirectorsOffice%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7Cd6943c3c333243409f9208da4f8fd42e%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C637909776391826203%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=2HqbKO5qZzisX%2FDd5596Y0IMXvhKHSdVJjm6Noe44Rk%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">UKVI</a> is performing against service standards can be found in the migration transparency data published on the <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FGOV&amp;data=05%7C01%7CVSIDirectorsOffice%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7Cd6943c3c333243409f9208da4f8fd42e%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C637909776391826203%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=sdhxpTFXltYca%2Btvd%2Bg6ajPHiHGG34MF6kPjf%2B32AK8%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">GOV</a>.UK webpage Migration transparency data - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 23/06/2022 10:08:44 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

1470325

registered interest
date	14/06/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Applications
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of asylum applications received by her Department since 1 January 2022 have been classified as straightforward as defined in her Department's customer service standards.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	17889
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/06/2022 answer text <p>Since October 2018 we have not classified asylum applications in this way.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 21/06/2022 09:00:53 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster previous answer version 7484 answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

1469912

registered interest
date	13/06/2022
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Homes for Ukraine Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what checks his Department undertakes into the backgrounds of sponsors in the Homes for Ukraine Scheme.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	16860
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2022 answer text <p>The most up to date information on sponsor checks can be accessed here: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fguidance%2Fhomes-for-ukraine-sponsor-guidance%23eligibility&amp;data=05%7C01%7CParliamentary%40levellingup.gov.uk%7C6bc652d84e9044a3871508da4ec28149%7Cbf3468109c7d43dea87224a2ef3995a8%7C0%7C0%7C637908894532809337%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=PL5KAgJUK%2B8IrTPaz17orUY0iKyGSPERS9t%2F5nGEfws%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/homes-for-ukraine-sponsor-guidance#eligibility</a> .</p> answering member constituency Walsall North answering member printed Eddie Hughes question first answered 16/06/2022 14:52:47 answering member 4635 label Biography information for Eddie Hughes
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

1463076

registered interest
date	16/05/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Passports: Applications
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent steps she has taken to improve the time taken to process passport applications for (a) immigrants and (b) refugees not related to schemes for Ukrainian refugees.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	2385
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/05/2022 answer text <p>British passports are issued to British nationals only.</p><p> </p><p>Should any person become a British citizen through naturalisation or registration, they should apply for a British passport in the usual way. All applicants in the UK using the standard service are currently advised to allow up to ten weeks to get their passport.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 19/05/2022 15:02:26 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

1462012

registered interest
date	11/05/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Underground Railways: Noise
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has made an assessment of the level of noise exposure for passengers travelling on the London Underground.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	627
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/05/2022 answer text <p>The Department does not hold this information as transport in London is devolved and is the responsibility of the Mayor of London and Transport for London.</p> answering member constituency Copeland answering member printed Trudy Harrison question first answered 16/05/2022 11:07:36 answering member 4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

1461414

registered interest
date	10/05/2022
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
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 recent assessment she has made of the (a) economic and (b) cultural impact of songwriters and composers in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	65
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/05/2022 answer text <p>The music industry is vital to the economy and culture of the UK. In 2019, the music, performing and visual arts sector contributed an estimated £10.5bn in GVA to the UK economy. PRS for Music, the organisation that pays royalties to over 160,000 songwriters, composers, and music publishers, saw overall revenues in 2021 reach £777.1m, a 22.4% increase on 2020.</p><p>The cultural impact of music is also invaluable. According to UK Music’s 2021 ‘This is Music’ Report, the UK public listens to an estimated 60 billion hours of music a year. Songwriters and composers form the bedrock on which the overall success of the music sector is built. Despite the challenges of Covid-19, songwriters and composers continued to have significant impact; UK Music’s 2021 ‘This is Music’ Report states that over 5 million songs and compositions were registered with PRS for Music, nearly one third more than in 2019. The Government wants to ensure this success continues.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hornchurch and Upminster answering member printed Julia Lopez question first answered 16/05/2022 08:25:13 answering member 4647 label Biography information for Julia Lopez
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan