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1520345

registered interest
date	11/10/2022
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: Crimes of Violence
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 her Department is taking to prevent violent images of assault being (a) uploaded, and (b) distributed on online sites.
tabling member constituency	Islwyn
tabling member printed	Chris Evans
uin	61041
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2022 answer text <p>The Online Safety Bill will require all in-scope platforms to assess and mitigate the risk of illegal content appearing on their sites, or of their sites being used to facilitate illegal activity. All in-scope platforms will need to design their services to prevent exposure to illegal content and will need to set out in their terms of service how individuals will be protected from illegal content online. In-scope platforms will also need to ensure that they quickly take down illegal content once it has been reported or they become aware of its presence on their services.</p><p>Platforms which are likely to be accessed by children will also need to assess the risks their service poses for children, including from harms such as cyberbullying and content depicting or encouraging violence, put in place measures to protect them, and monitor these to ensure they are keeping children safe on their services.</p><p>Users will be able to report abuse, and should expect to receive an appropriate response from the platform.</p><p>If major platforms don’t fulfil their own standards to keep people safe, they could face an investigation and enforcement action.</p> answering member constituency Folkestone and Hythe answering member printed Damian Collins grouped question UIN 61042 61043 question first answered 20/10/2022 16:53:11 answering member 3986 label Biography information for Damian Collins
tabling member	4040 label Biography information for Chris Evans

1520346

registered interest
date	11/10/2022
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: Crimes of Violence
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 her Department is taking to remove violent images of assault from online sites.
tabling member constituency	Islwyn
tabling member printed	Chris Evans
uin	61042
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2022 answer text <p>The Online Safety Bill will require all in-scope platforms to assess and mitigate the risk of illegal content appearing on their sites, or of their sites being used to facilitate illegal activity. All in-scope platforms will need to design their services to prevent exposure to illegal content and will need to set out in their terms of service how individuals will be protected from illegal content online. In-scope platforms will also need to ensure that they quickly take down illegal content once it has been reported or they become aware of its presence on their services.</p><p>Platforms which are likely to be accessed by children will also need to assess the risks their service poses for children, including from harms such as cyberbullying and content depicting or encouraging violence, put in place measures to protect them, and monitor these to ensure they are keeping children safe on their services.</p><p>Users will be able to report abuse, and should expect to receive an appropriate response from the platform.</p><p>If major platforms don’t fulfil their own standards to keep people safe, they could face an investigation and enforcement action.</p> answering member constituency Folkestone and Hythe answering member printed Damian Collins grouped question UIN 61041 61043 question first answered 20/10/2022 16:53:11 answering member 3986 label Biography information for Damian Collins
tabling member	4040 label Biography information for Chris Evans

1520347

registered interest
date	11/10/2022
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: Crimes of Violence
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 her Department is taking to prevent online violent images being used as a form of cyber bullying.
tabling member constituency	Islwyn
tabling member printed	Chris Evans
uin	61043
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2022 answer text <p>The Online Safety Bill will require all in-scope platforms to assess and mitigate the risk of illegal content appearing on their sites, or of their sites being used to facilitate illegal activity. All in-scope platforms will need to design their services to prevent exposure to illegal content and will need to set out in their terms of service how individuals will be protected from illegal content online. In-scope platforms will also need to ensure that they quickly take down illegal content once it has been reported or they become aware of its presence on their services.</p><p>Platforms which are likely to be accessed by children will also need to assess the risks their service poses for children, including from harms such as cyberbullying and content depicting or encouraging violence, put in place measures to protect them, and monitor these to ensure they are keeping children safe on their services.</p><p>Users will be able to report abuse, and should expect to receive an appropriate response from the platform.</p><p>If major platforms don’t fulfil their own standards to keep people safe, they could face an investigation and enforcement action.</p> answering member constituency Folkestone and Hythe answering member printed Damian Collins grouped question UIN 61041 61042 question first answered 20/10/2022 16:53:11 answering member 3986 label Biography information for Damian Collins
tabling member	4040 label Biography information for Chris Evans

1520521

registered interest
date	11/10/2022
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 Licences: Non-payment
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 people (a) have been (i) fined, (ii) arrested and (iii) imprisoned for non payment of their television licence in each of the last three years and (b) are subject to legal action for non payment of their television licence.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	61311
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2022 answer text <p>The maximum penalty for non-payment of the TV licence fee is a fine. A person cannot receive a custodial sentence for TV licence evasion but can be committed to prison for wilfully refusing to pay the fine or culpably neglecting to pay. Imprisonment is only pursued as a matter of last resort.</p><p>In 2019, 122,603 people were proceeded against for non-payment of the licence fee. Of these, 113,002 people were fined. The number of people admitted to prison for failing to pay fines in respect of the non-payment of a TV licence in England and Wales in 2019 was two or fewer (the actual number has not been released in order to protect against personal identification).</p><p>In 2020, 53,301 people were proceeded against, and 49,948 were fined. In 2021, 49,126 people were proceeded against, and 44,364 were fined. In 2020 and 2021, there were no admissions into prison associated with failing to pay a fine in respect of the non-payment of a TV licence in England and Wales.</p><p>We do not hold data on the number of people arrested for non-payment of a fine which relates to non-payment of their television licence.</p><p>The information on prosecutions, convictions and sentencing outcomes is published online in the Outcomes by Offence data tool, available <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-justice-system-statistics-quarterly-december-2021" target="_blank">here</a>.</p> answering member constituency Hornchurch and Upminster answering member printed Julia Lopez question first answered 18/10/2022 08:52:05 answering member 4647 label Biography information for Julia Lopez
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1519156

registered interest
date	10/10/2022
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	Football Governance Fan-led Review
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 the Government will renew its commitment to introducing (a) an independent football regulator and (b) the other recommendations of the Crouch Review.
tabling member constituency	Newport East
tabling member printed	Jessica Morden
uin	59117
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2022 answer text <p>The Government published its response to the recommendations made by the Independent Fan Led Review of Football Governance in April 2022. We absolutely recognise the need for football to be reformed to ensure the game’s sustainability in the long term. We are now taking the time to consider the policy, but we remain committed to publishing a White Paper setting out our detailed response to the fan led review of football governance, and will set this out in due course.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 13/10/2022 13:37:54 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	1548 label Biography information for Jessica Morden

1519309

registered interest
date	10/10/2022
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	Football Governance Fan-led Review
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 Government response to the Fan-Led Review of Football Governance, published on 25 April 2022, CP 658, when she plans to (a) publish the white paper on reforming football governance and (b) introduce an independent regulator.
tabling member constituency	Walsall South
tabling member printed	Valerie Vaz
uin	59704
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2022 answer text <p>The Government published its response to the recommendations made by the Independent Fan Led Review of Football Governance in April 2022. We absolutely recognise the need for football to be reformed to ensure the game’s sustainability in the long term. We are now taking the time to consider the policy, but we remain committed to publishing a White Paper setting out our detailed response to the fan led review of football governance, and will set this out in due course.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 13/10/2022 13:40:01 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	4076 label Biography information for Valerie Vaz

1519740

registered interest
date	10/10/2022
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: Epilepsy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether it is her policy to ensure that protections for people with epilepsy from malicious posts designed to cause seizures will be included in the Online Safety Bill.
tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
tabling member printed	Kim Leadbeater
uin	60201
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2022 answer text <p>The Government is committed to introducing a new offence of epilepsy trolling in the Online Safety Bill to address this appalling online abuse.</p> answering member constituency Folkestone and Hythe answering member printed Damian Collins question first answered 13/10/2022 17:03:42 answering member 3986 label Biography information for Damian Collins
tabling member	4923 label Biography information for Kim Leadbeater

1519976

registered interest
date	10/10/2022
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	Digital Technology: Regulation
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 Government response to the consultation entitled A new pro-competition regime for digital markets, published on 6 May 2022, when she plans to bring forward legislative proposals on powers for the (a) Digital Markets Unit and (b) new regulatory regime.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Yardley
tabling member printed	Jess Phillips
uin	59784
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2022 answer text <p>The new pro-competition regime will remove the obstacles to competition and drive growth in digital markets, delivering lower prices for UK families, and giving consumers more choice and control over the services they use online.</p><p>The Draft Digital Markets, Competition and Consumer Bill was announced as part of the Queen's Speech 2022 and will be published as soon as parliamentary time allows. Arrangements for pre-legislative scrutiny will be decided in due course.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Folkestone and Hythe answering member printed Damian Collins question first answered 14/10/2022 14:41:19 answering member 3986 label Biography information for Damian Collins
tabling member	4370 label Biography information for Jess Phillips