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1348876

registered interest
date	20/07/2021
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	Euro 2020
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to recognise the success of the England football team in the 2020 European Championships, both in (1) sporting terms, and (2) presenting a positive image of the country.
tabling member printed	Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
uin	HL2196
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/07/2021 answer text <p>The England team enjoyed a magnificent run in Euro 2020 and I once again pass on my huge congratulations to the team for their work on and off the pitch.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>We continue to work closely with the FA on ensuring their players get the appropriate recognition, and recognise that they are already focused on qualification for the Qatar World Cup next year.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member printed Baroness Barran question first answered 26/07/2021 14:22:02 answering member 4703 label Biography information for Baroness Barran
tabling member	4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

1348894

registered interest
date	20/07/2021
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	Sports: Fundraising
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have, if any, to discuss with the National Lottery Community Fund ways to assist small sports clubs with fundraising events after the COVID-19 lockdowns.
tabling member printed	Lord Jones of Cheltenham
uin	HL2218
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/08/2021 answer text <p>HMG have worked closely with the Fundraising Regulator and the Chartered Institute of Fundraising to produce guidance to support safe and effective fundraising, in line with restrictions under each step of the COVID-19 roadmap. Current guidance is available on the Fundraising Regulator’s website.</p><p>The National Lottery Community Fund is a non-departmental public body (NDPB), which means that it operates at ‘arm’s length’ from government. As a distributor of Lottery money, rather than of government funds, it makes its individual funding decisions independently, within the framework of the policy directions set by the Secretary of State for DCMS. <del class="ministerial">The government cannot, therefore, intervene in o</del><ins class="ministerial">The government cannot, therefore, intervene in or influence the Fund’s decision-making process or support individual applications for funding.</ins></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Barran question first answered 03/08/2021 11:51:58 question first ministerially corrected 03/08/2021 14:16:16 answering member 4703 label Biography information for Baroness Barran previous answer version 17816 answering member printed Baroness Barran answering member 4703 label Biography information for Baroness Barran
tabling member	248 label Biography information for Lord Jones of Cheltenham

1348915

registered interest
date	20/07/2021
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: Children
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to introduce regulations on social media companies, including mandatory design standards, to increase online safety for services that are used by children.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL2246
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/07/2021 answer text <p>The draft Online Safety Bill, published in May 2021, will ensure companies design their platforms to be safer for users, and particularly for children. The new laws will apply to companies that allow users to post content online or to interact with each other, which includes social media companies. The draft bill will be subject to pre-legislative scrutiny in this session. The Joint Committee that will scrutinise the draft Bill has now been set up, and members from both Houses have now been appointed.</p><p>The strongest protections in the legislation are for children. Unless social media companies are able to prove that children are not accessing their service, they will need to conduct a child safety risk assessment and provide safety measures for child users, keeping these under regular review. As part of the risk assessment, companies will need to assess how the design and operation of the service may increase or reduce the risks identified.</p><p>The government has also published voluntary Safety by Design guidance in June 2021 that will help companies design safer online services. In addition, the Information Commissioner’s Age Appropriate Design Code, which will come into force in September 2021, will set out specific protections for children’s personal data that companies will need to build in when designing online services likely to be accessed by children.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Barran question first answered 27/07/2021 11:57:32 answering member 4703 label Biography information for Baroness Barran
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

1347946

registered interest
date	19/07/2021
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	Email: Fraud
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Barran on 19 July (HL1969), what proportion of the 6,500,000 reports received by the Suspicious Email Reporting Service resulted in the removal (1) a scam, (2) a web address, and (3) both.
tabling member printed	Lord Lucas
uin	HL2164
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/08/2021 answer text <p>The Suspicious Email Reporting Service (SERS) provides the public with a route for the escalation and removal of suspected phishing campaigns. The automated SERS processes emails received from the public, and if a malicious web address (URL) is identified in the email, a take down request is submitted to the hosting provider. To date we have identified more than 97,500 individual malicious URLs for removal which equates to 50,5000 individual scam campaigns. Multiple reports of the same scams have been forwarded to SERS. The total number of reports to SERS stands at 6.5m as at 30th June 2021.</p><p> </p><p>SERS is one tool in HMG’s response to cybercrime, and is intended to empower people to simply forward suspicious emails to the NCSC for action. Full details of the NCSC’s comprehensive response to the proactive identification and removal of malicious activity on the internet can be found in its Active Cyber Defence Year 4 report. This report outlines all the measures the NCSC takes to identify and remove the malicious activity before it ever reaches the public, and can be found at <a href="https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/report/acd-report-year-four" target="_blank">https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/report/acd-report-year-four</a></p><p> </p><p>If a person falls victim to a phishing email, that should be reported to Action Fraud and it will be logged as a crime.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Barran question first answered 02/08/2021 13:24:54 answering member 4703 label Biography information for Baroness Barran
tabling member	1879 label Biography information for Lord Lucas

1347958

registered interest
date	19/07/2021
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	Euro 2020: Coronavirus
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what discussions they have had with the Football Association about the number of stewards employed to provide security at the Wembley Euro 2020 final who were self-isolating on the day, due to (1) a positive COVID-19 test, or (2) having been instructed to do so by the NHS Covid App; and what proportion of total stewards that represents.
tabling member printed	Lord Oates
uin	HL2177
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/07/2021 answer text <p>The UK Government has worked closely with the Football Association (FA) over the course of the Euro 2020 competition. The FA, as owner of Wembley Stadium, is responsible for safety and stewarding within the stadium footprint. Stewards scheduled to work at the Wembley Euro 2020 final who tested positive for COVID-19 or who were instructed to isolatedo so by the NHS COVID app were instructed to follow isolation procedures and not attend work.</p><p><strong><p><p></strong></p><p>At the EURO 2020 final at Wembley, the FA had 1,977 stewards rostered to work, with 1,937 stewards reporting for work at the start of their shift. This meant that there was a drop out of 40 stewards (this number being within the allocated contingency). The FA do not hold the data for how many of these missed work because they were self-isolating due to a positive COVID-19 test, or having been instructed to do so by the NHS COVID app.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Barran question first answered 26/07/2021 14:21:04 answering member 4703 label Biography information for Baroness Barran
tabling member	4549 label Biography information for Lord Oates

1347967

registered interest
date	19/07/2021
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	Cybersecurity
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Barran on 19 July (HL1969), on which specific pages of the National Cyber Security Centre's website their statistical data are published.
tabling member printed	Lord Lucas
uin	HL2166
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/08/2021 answer text <p>Full details of the NCSC’s comprehensive response to the proactive identification and removal of malicious activity on the internet can be found in its Active Cyber Defence Year 4 report: <a href="https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/report/acd-report-year-four" target="_blank">https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/report/acd-report-year-four</a>. This report outlines all the measures the NCSC takes to identify and remove the malicious activity before it ever reaches the public. Up to date SERS statistics can be found at <a href="https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/information/report-suspicious-emails#section_1" target="_blank">https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/information/report-suspicious-emails#section_1</a></p><p> </p><p>If a person falls victim to a phishing email, that should be reported to the police via Action Fraud and it will be logged as a crime.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The 2021 Cyber Security Breaches Survey found that 32% of businesses identified experiencing phishing attacks in the previous 12 months. The survey does not ask about the proportion of phishing attacks on businesses that were successful. However the survey does find that, among the 39% businesses which identify any cyber breaches or attacks, one in five (21%) of these end up losing money, data or other assets.</p><p> </p><p>The government does not hold similar statistics specifically related to phishing attacks against individual citizens.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Barran question first answered 02/08/2021 13:48:02 answering member 4703 label Biography information for Baroness Barran
tabling member	1879 label Biography information for Lord Lucas

1347841

registered interest
date	16/07/2021
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: Safety
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what discussions they have had with the Sports Grounds Safety Authority regarding the requirement for a form of rail seating on spectator behaviour in the next football season; and when they will report on the requirement to move to the full rail seating required for safe standing.
tabling member printed	Lord Mann
uin	HL2125
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/07/2021 answer text <p>The Sports Grounds Safety Authority (SGSA) has already set out the technical requirements needed for seats with barriers or independent barriers in the current (6th) edition of its Guide to Safety at Sports Grounds (Green Guide). Additionally, the SGSA’s current all-seater policy enforcement approach details, amongst other things, how to identify risks to spectator safety arising from persistent standing in seated areas, and potential mitigation for such risks.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>It is for a football club to decide, in consultation with the relevant local authority and other partners, which parts of its ground would benefit from seats with barriers or seats with independent barriers to address the identified risks to spectator safety.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Barran grouped question UIN HL2126 question first answered 27/07/2021 11:38:57 answering member 4703 label Biography information for Baroness Barran
tabling member	1387 label Biography information for Lord Mann

1347842

registered interest
date	16/07/2021
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	Sportsgrounds: Safety
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what is the basis for requiring parts of sports stands to have a form of rail seating to improve safe standing and other adjoining seats, in the same seating area, not to be included.
tabling member printed	Lord Mann
uin	HL2126
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/07/2021 answer text <p>The Sports Grounds Safety Authority (SGSA) has already set out the technical requirements needed for seats with barriers or independent barriers in the current (6th) edition of its Guide to Safety at Sports Grounds (Green Guide). Additionally, the SGSA’s current all-seater policy enforcement approach details, amongst other things, how to identify risks to spectator safety arising from persistent standing in seated areas, and potential mitigation for such risks.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>It is for a football club to decide, in consultation with the relevant local authority and other partners, which parts of its ground would benefit from seats with barriers or seats with independent barriers to address the identified risks to spectator safety.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Barran grouped question UIN HL2125 question first answered 27/07/2021 11:38:57 answering member 4703 label Biography information for Baroness Barran
tabling member	1387 label Biography information for Lord Mann

1347847

registered interest
date	16/07/2021
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	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the performance of high-speed broadband in rural areas; what steps they are taking to ensure that such services provide the advertised performance; whether they will provide compensation for those who have been advised to replace their old service and install a new one where that service does not meet advertised standards; and what steps they intend to take to support customers experiencing ongoing issues.
tabling member printed	Lord Vinson
uin	HL2131
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2021 answer text <p>Ofcom’s 2020 Connected Nations <a href="https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0024/209373/connected-nations-2020.pdf" target="_blank">report</a> shows that 99.4% of UK premises have access to decent broadband speeds (10 Mbps and over), and according to <a href="https://labs.thinkbroadband.com/local/uk" target="_blank">thinkbroadband.com</a> (<a href="https://labs.thinkbroadband.com/local/uk" target="_blank">https://labs.thinkbroadband.com/local/uk</a>) , 97% can get superfast speeds (24 Mbps and over). Ofcom’s 2021 report, UK Home Broadband Performance, which can be found here (<a href="https://www.ofcom.org.uk/research-and-data/telecoms-research/broadband-research/broadband-speeds/uk-home-broadband-performance-nov-2020" target="_blank">https://www.ofcom.org.uk/research-and-data/telecoms-research/broadband-research/broadband-speeds/uk-home-broadband-performance-nov-2020</a>) showed that the average superfast speeds in rural areas was 44.2 Mbps, compared to 48.6 Mbps in urban areas in 2020.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>In order to protect consumers, Ofcom has put in place voluntary broadband speeds Codes of Practice with industry, which can be viewed here (<a href="https://www.ofcom.org.uk/phones-telecoms-and-internet/information-for-industry/codes-of-practice" target="_blank">https://www.ofcom.org.uk/phones-telecoms-and-internet/information-for-industry/codes-of-practice</a>). Signatories include BT, EE, Plusnet, TalkTalk and Virgin Media. Those signed up to the Code of Practice are committed to having systems which can identify the cause of speed problems, and processes to ensure they are resolved. Furthermore, signatories must provide guaranteed minimum speeds to their customers, and if speeds drop below the promised levels, are required to improve performance within one month. If there is no improvement, consumers have the right to exit their contract without penalty. To ensure effectiveness of the code, Ofcom monitors compliance by the signatories, and where it finds issues, will engage with the provider to deliver prompt resolutions.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Barran question first answered 22/07/2021 12:47:37 answering member 4703 label Biography information for Baroness Barran
tabling member	1807 label Biography information for Lord Vinson

1347564

registered interest
date	15/07/2021
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: Finance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have, if any, to agree an emergency compensation package with the creative sector.
tabling member printed	Lord Jones of Cheltenham
uin	HL2079
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/07/2021 answer text <p>The Government recognises the significant challenges that the pandemic has created for our creative industries and our support to the sector has been unwavering throughout.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>We know the move to Step 4 will come as welcome news to our creative sectors but we also recognise that many organisations are still in need of emergency support. This is why we recently announced the final £300 million of the Government’s £2 billion Culture Recovery Fund (CRF) in late June. In particular, portals are currently open for the Emergency Resource Support element of this round, which will provide further support for organisations in need of urgent funding as the cultural, heritage and creative sectors move towards reopening at full capacity.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>This extra support is on top of the £1.2 billion that has already been awarded to over 5,000 individual organisations and sites in previous rounds of the CRF. Throughout the pandemic, we have introduced an unprecedented package of pan-economy support including generous employment schemes, grants, loans, a reduction in VAT and business rate relief, in addition to other sector specific support such as the Film and TV Production Restart Scheme. Our Plan For Jobs has also supported jobs and businesses with over £400 billion of economic support – one of the most generous and comprehensive packages in the world.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Barran question first answered 27/07/2021 11:55:14 answering member 4703 label Biography information for Baroness Barran
tabling member	248 label Biography information for Lord Jones of Cheltenham