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58326

registered interest
date	05/06/2014
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Museums and Galleries
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Answer of 23 January 2014, Official Report, column 316W, on museums and galleries, what the financial contribution required from each institution in the museums and galleries sector is from the transfer in employers' contributions following the Cabinet Office review of the Civil Service Pension Scheme.
tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
uin	199321
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2014 answer text <p>Such details would be finalised before any potential transfer of liabilities.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Mr Francis Maude question first answered 10/06/2014 12:41:40 answering member 115 label Biography information for Lord Maude of Horsham
tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman

58327

registered interest
date	05/06/2014
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, with reference to the Answer of 1 May 2014, Official Report, columns 809-10W, on Arts Council England, how much Arts Council England spending on libraries was obtained from (a) grant-in-aid and lottery funding in (i) 2012-13 and (ii) 2013-14.
tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
uin	199319
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>Arts Council England spending on libraries for the years requested is shown in the following table:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>2013/14</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Grant-in-Aid</p></td><td><p>£687,000</p></td><td><p>£622,287</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lottery</p></td><td><p>£1,001,200</p></td><td><p>£2,418,224</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Libraries are funded by local authorities, who have a statutory duty to maintain local library services.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 10/06/2014 15:14:56 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman

58328

registered interest
date	05/06/2014
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, with reference to the Answer of 1 May 2014, Official Report, columns 809-10W, on Arts Council England, how much the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council spent on libraries in (a) 2009-10, (b) 2010-11 and (c) 2011-12.
tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
uin	199320
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Annual Report and Financial Statements for the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council indicates that the grant-in-aid grants payable for specific library activities for the financial years requested is as shown in the table</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Grant Payable</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Activity</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009/10</p></td><td><p>£67,000</p><p> </p><p> </p></td><td><p>Future Libraries - £38,000</p><p>Get it Loud Libraries - £24,000</p><p>National Library Membership - £5,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>£338,000</p></td><td><p>Future Libraries</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>£149,000</p></td><td><p>London Library Change Programme</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 11/06/2014 14:45:16 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot previous answer version 443 answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman

58329

registered interest
date	05/06/2014
answering body	Women and Equalities
answering dept id	31
answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
hansard heading	Business: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Ministers for Women and Equalities, pursuant to the Government Equalities Office press release of 13 May 2014 entitled £1 million to help women start or grow their own business, whether that sum will be drawn from the budget of the Super Connected Cities programme.
tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
uin	199322
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2014 answer text <p>The £1 million Woman and Broadband Challenge Fund is additional to the Super Connected Cities programme. It will support local activity to help women take advantage of the Government's investment in superfast broadband to set-up or grow their business. The 40 broadband projects in England already delivering the Superfast Broadband Programme are invited to submit bids to the Fund.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 10/06/2014 15:16:45 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman

49275

registered interest
date	30/04/2014
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, pursuant to the Answer of 29 April 2014, Official Report, column 540W, on pornography: internet, how many prosecutions there have been under section 2 of the Obscene Publications Act 1959 since 2005 in which a person has been charged in connection with the distribution of R18 equivalent material on a website which allowed under-18s to see such material.
tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
uin	197390
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/05/2014 answer text <p>The records held by the Crown Prosecution Service do not specify the type of material which is the subject of a charge under Section 2 of the Obscene Publications Act 1959 (publishing or having an obscene article for gain). To obtain details of individual cases would require a manual review, which could only be undertaken at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Hertfordshire answering member printed Oliver Heald question first answered 06/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 69 label Biography information for Sir Oliver Heald
tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman

48970

registered interest
date	29/04/2014
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what expenditure his Department incurred on the (a) Broadband Delivery Programme, (b) Mobile Infrastructure Project, (c) Spectrum Clearance and Awards Programme and (d) Urban Broadband Fund (Super-Connected City Initiative) in (i) 2010-11, (ii) 2011-12, (iii) 2012-13, (iv) 2013-14 and (v) 2014-15 to date; and what further expenditure on each of those projects it expects to incur in (A) the remainder of 2014-15, (B) 2015-16, (C) 2016-17, (D) 2017-18, (E) 2018-19 and (F) 2019-20.
tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
uin	197157
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/05/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The expenditure the Department incurred on the (a) Broadband Delivery Programme, (b) Mobile Infrastructure Project, (c) Spectrum Clearance and Awards Programme and (d) Urban Broadband Fund (Super-Connected City Initiative) in the years requested is:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Programme</p></td><td><p>2010-11 (£m)</p></td><td><p>2011-12 (£m)</p></td><td><p>2012-13 (£m)</p></td><td><p>2013-14</p><p>(£m)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(a) Broadband Delivery Programme</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>9.77</p></td><td><p>68.49</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(b) Mobile Infrastructure Project</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0.09</p></td><td><p>1.63</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(c) Spectrum Clearance and Awards Programme</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>49.7</p></td><td><p>46.1</p></td><td><p>9.20</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(d) Urban Broadband Fund (Super-Connected City Initiative)</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>16.36</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>The figures provided relate to capital funding only. The totals for (a) and (d) include budget transfers to Broadband projects in the Devolved Administrations and (a) includes a budget transfer to Defra. The 2013-14 data are unaudited figures from the Department's financial systems and therefore subject to change. BDUK has not yet spent any capital funding in 2014-15.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The forecasts for these DCMS programmes are subject to regular re-profiling. These are published on an annual basis by the Cabinet Office (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/government-major-projects-portfolio-data-for-dcms-2013" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/government-major-projects-portfolio-data-for-dcms-2013</a>). The next data set will be published in June 2014. These programmes are currently profiled to spend:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>(a) £780m on the Broadband Delivery programme by end FY 2017/18;</p><p> </p><p>(b) £150m on the Superfast Connected Cities Programme in 2015;</p><p> </p><p>(c) £131m on the Spectrum Clearance and Awards Programme by end FY 14/15;</p><p> </p><p>(d) £150m on the Mobile Infrastructure Programme by end FY 2014/15.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 07/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot previous answer version 8780 answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman

48971

registered interest
date	29/04/2014
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 10 April 2014, Official Report, column 367W, on the River Thames: bridges, in what year or years the £30 million allocated to the Garden Bridge in the National Infrastructure Plan 2013 is projected to be spent.
tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
uin	197053
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/05/2014 answer text <p>Should the business case demonstrate that the project represents good value for money, Government will agree the detailed terms of funding with the Garden Bridge Trust.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p>Whilst the payment schedule has not yet been determined. It is likely that the funding will be released in tranches throughout the project, as it reaches agreed milestones.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 06/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman

48465

registered interest
date	25/04/2014
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many paintings, artefacts and other objects were lent from the collections of grant-in-aid funded national museums and galleries to other grant-in-aid funded national museums and galleries in each year since 2010-11.
tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
uin	196682
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2014 answer text <p>The Department for Culture, Media and Sport has collected and published the following data about the number of venues in the United Kingdom to which the sponsored national museums have lent objects from their collections.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Number of UK loan venues</strong></p></td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Institution</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2010/11</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2011/12</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012/13</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>British Museum</p></td><td><p>178</p></td><td><p>162</p></td><td><p>169</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Imperial War Museum</p></td><td><p>90</p></td><td><p>376</p></td><td><p>104</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>National Gallery</p></td><td><p>17</p></td><td><p>35</p></td><td><p>35</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>National Maritime Museum</p></td><td><p>71</p></td><td><p>74</p></td><td><p>81</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>National Museums Liverpool</p></td><td><p>193</p></td><td><p>228</p></td><td><p>239</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Science Museum Group <sup>1</sup></p></td><td><p>164</p></td><td><p>185</p></td><td><p>240</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>National Portrait Gallery</p></td><td><p>133</p></td><td><p>118</p></td><td><p>118</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Natural History Museum</p></td><td><p>182</p></td><td><p>131</p></td><td><p>32</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Royal Armouries</p></td><td><p>107</p></td><td><p>106</p></td><td><p>120</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sir John Soane's Museum</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Tate Gallery</p></td><td><p>153</p></td><td><p>147</p></td><td><p>128</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Victoria and Albert Museum</p></td><td><p>241</p></td><td><p>262</p></td><td><p>242</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wallace Collection <sup>2</sup></p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><sup>1 </sup>From 2011-12, the total includes figures for the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester, following its merger with the Science Museum Group.</p><p><sup>2</sup> The Wallace Collection cannot lend items under terms of its bequest.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey grouped question UIN 196689 question first answered 30/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman

48468

registered interest
date	25/04/2014
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
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 budget of Arts Council England for library development is in 2013-14; and how many staff that body employs to work on its library responsibilities.
tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
uin	196562
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/05/2014 answer text <p>The budget set by Arts Council England (ACE) for library development in 2013/14 was £685,000. 5.5 full time equivalent staff are currently employed on ACE library responsibilities.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 01/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman

48469

registered interest
date	25/04/2014
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
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 3 April 2014, Official Report, column 145W on consultants, how much spending on consultancy was spent on (a) Olympic delivery, (b) the broadband delivery programme and (c) other consultancy spending.
tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
uin	196665
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2014 answer text <p>DCMS has spent the following amounts on consultancy services since 2010-11:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Financial Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2010-11</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2011-12</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012-13</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013-14</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cost Directly Related to The Olympics</p></td><td><p>101,712</p></td><td><p>103,293</p></td><td><p>92,753</p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>BDUK Consultancy Costs</p></td><td> </td><td><p>2,041,495</p></td><td><p>3,983,283</p></td><td><p>3,304,915</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other Consultancy</p></td><td><p>247,860</p></td><td><p>133,771</p></td><td><p>297,835</p></td><td><p>109,536</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> 349,572 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> 2,278,559 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> 4,373,871 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>3,414,451</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The figures for 2013-14 are currently unaudited. The figures now include the expenditure on external legal advice related to programme support, but excludes spending on legal services from the Treasury Solicitor and the providers of recruitment services. This has been done in order to arrive at figures that more directly relate to the providers of consultancy.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 30/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman