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1169443

registered interest
date	08/01/2020
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	Broadband: Rural Areas
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 respond to the 18 September 2019 report of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee, An Update on Rural Connectivity, Seventeenth Report of Session 2017-19, HC 2223.
tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
tabling member printed	Alan Brown
uin	1362
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2020 answer text <p>The government has prepared a response to the EFRA committee, which will be submitted when the committee is reformed.</p> answering member constituency Boston and Skegness answering member printed Matt Warman question first answered 16/01/2020 15:59:57 answering member 4361 label Biography information for Matt Warman
tabling member	4470 label Biography information for Alan Brown

1169463

registered interest
date	08/01/2020
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	Football: World Cup
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 discussions she has had with the Prime Minister on hosting the 2030 FIFA World Cup in the North of England.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	1373
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2020 answer text <p>The government will fully support the Football Associations in their plan to bid for the men's 2030 FIFA World Cup, including through investing an extra £550 million in grassroots football over the next 10 years. The government is committed to seeing the benefits of hosting the tournament spread across the country. The Prime Minister regularly engages with his ministers on all manifesto commitments.</p> answering member constituency Selby and Ainsty answering member printed Nigel Adams question first answered 13/01/2020 15:06:36 answering member 4057 label Biography information for Nigel Adams
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1169478

registered interest
date	08/01/2020
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
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 the accuracy of content loader information on social media.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	1385
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2020 answer text <p>We published the Online Harms White Paper in April last year, setting out plans for world-leading legislation to make the UK the safest place in the world to be online.</p><p>Our proposals would establish a new statutory duty of care on companies towards their users, overseen by an independent regulator. The duty of care will ensure companies have appropriate systems and processes in place to deal with harmful content on their services to keep their users safe</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Boston and Skegness answering member printed Matt Warman question first answered 16/01/2020 15:52:39 answering member 4361 label Biography information for Matt Warman
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1169580

registered interest
date	08/01/2020
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	Football Association: Bet365
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 discussions she has had with the Football Association on its partnership with Bet365.
tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
uin	1440
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2020 answer text <p>I have spoken with the Chief of the Executive of the Football Association to hear the background of the sale of rights to IMG, which in turn resulted in Bet365 and other betting companies providing live streaming of FA Cup fixtures to account holders. Betting and Gaming Council rights holders in this deal have relinquished any exclusivity over these rights, so that they may now be streamed outside of betting environments, and the FA are exploring how they can rescind these deals. I shall be meeting with the FA this week to discuss their next steps.</p> answering member constituency Selby and Ainsty answering member printed Nigel Adams question first answered 13/01/2020 16:49:50 answering member 4057 label Biography information for Nigel Adams
tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin

1169583

registered interest
date	08/01/2020
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	Religion: National Lottery
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 estimate she has made of the proportion of (a) all lottery funding support bids and (b) successful bids for lottery funding support, from religious organisations.
tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
uin	1443
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2020 answer text <p>Good cause income raised by the National Lottery funds arts, heritage, sport and communities (covering health, education, environment and charitable causes). It is distributed at arms length of Government by twelve Lottery Distributing Bodies.</p><p>Religious and faith based organisations are eligible to apply for National Lottery funding and are typically required to demonstrate that projects will benefit the wider community and will not have any religious content.</p><p>Information about the religious status of organisations that apply for grants is not consistently collected, so it has not been possible to analyse the data on this basis.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 13/01/2020 17:49:22 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin

1169589

registered interest
date	08/01/2020
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	National Lottery: Tickets
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 discussions she has had with the National Lottery on releasing information on the geographical location of where tickets are purchased.
tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
uin	1449
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2020 answer text <p>Following the discussion at the DCMS Select Committee on 24 October 2018, Ministers at the time wrote to Camelot who confirmed that they do not publish this information because it is commercially sensitive.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 13/01/2020 17:45:18 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin

1169593

registered interest
date	08/01/2020
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	S4C: Public Appointments
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 announce the appointment of the Chair of S4C.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	1296
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2020 answer text <p>The appointment of the Chair of S4C is an ongoing priority for DCMS. An announcement regarding the preferred candidate will be made in due course prior to the candidate appearing before a Pre-Appointment hearing held by the Welsh Affairs and DCMS Select Committees. An interim Chair is currently in place.</p> answering member constituency Selby and Ainsty answering member printed Nigel Adams question first answered 13/01/2020 15:17:46 answering member 4057 label Biography information for Nigel Adams
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

1169115

registered interest
date	07/01/2020
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: Civil Servants
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how many civil servants in her Department work on projects relating to (a) digital, (b) culture, (c) media and (d) sport.
tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
uin	1053
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2020 answer text <p>At 31 December 2019 DCMS employed 1,264 Civil Servants, the majority of whom worked directly on projects relating to digital, culture, media and sport as set out in the table below. The staff not included in this table are either part of the corporate centre (e.g Finance and HR), part of cross-cutting teams working across multiple policy areas (e.g the department’s Central Analytical Team) or part of teams which aren’t directly linked to digital, culture, media or sport (e.g. the Office for Civil Society and the Gambling team).</p><p><strong> </strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Work area</p></td><td><p>Civil Servants</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Digital</p></td><td><p>542</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Culture</p></td><td><p>116</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Media</p></td><td><p>57</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sport</p></td><td><p>50</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The information in the table above relates to Civil Servants on DCMS’ payroll. This includes permanent staff, those on fixed-term contracts, those on paid loan/secondment in/out of DCMS and those on paid maternity leave.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Selby and Ainsty answering member printed Nigel Adams question first answered 13/01/2020 15:14:03 answering member 4057 label Biography information for Nigel Adams
tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin

1169127

registered interest
date	07/01/2020
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: Civil Servants
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how many civil servants were employed by her Department in each year between 2017 and 2020.
tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
uin	1058
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2020 answer text <p>The number of Civil Servants employed by DCMS in each year between 2017 and 2020 is as follows:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Date</p></td><td><p>Headcount</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>31 March 2017</p></td><td><p>656</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>31 March 2018</p></td><td><p>887</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>31 March 2019</p></td><td><p>1,188</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>31 December 2019 (latest available)</p></td><td><p>1,264</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The department’s headcount has steadily increased over the past four years due to an expanded policy remit and EU Exit preparations.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The information in the table above relates to Civil Servants on DCMS’ payroll. This includes permanent staff, those on fixed-term contracts, those on paid loan/secondment in/out of DCMS and those on paid maternity leave.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>This information is included in the DCMS Annual Report and Accounts.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Selby and Ainsty answering member printed Nigel Adams question first answered 13/01/2020 15:12:32 answering member 4057 label Biography information for Nigel Adams
tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin

1169150

registered interest
date	07/01/2020
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	Football
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how much her Department has spent on grassroots football for (a) men, (b) women and (c) in total in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
uin	1062
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2020 answer text <p>Through Sport England, Government is investing £24.6m in The Football Association over the course of 2016-21 for its work on grassroots participation, the football talent pathway, and coaching programmes. Within this, there is no specific ringfencing of funding between men's and women's programmes apart from £2.6m which is specifically reserved for women and girls talent programmes.</p><p>Separately, Government invested £18m in football facilities through the Football Foundation in each of 2017, 2018 and 2019. It is not possible to separate out the investment amounts by gender.</p><p>The Government has also committed to investing £550m into grassroots football facilities over the next 10 years to support plans to bid for the 2030 Men’s FIFA Football World Cup.</p> answering member constituency Selby and Ainsty answering member printed Nigel Adams question first answered 13/01/2020 15:09:48 answering member 4057 label Biography information for Nigel Adams
tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin