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1256779

registered interest
date	30/11/2020
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	Sports: Coronavirus
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 Tier Three covid-19 restrictions that will be in place from the 2 December 2020, whether an indoor sports facility that would be required to cease group activity and classes are permitted to (a) teach a one-on-one class and (b) hire out their facility for self-directed and socially distant practice.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Dame Diana Johnson
uin	122626
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2020 answer text <p>Sports and physical activity are incredibly important for our physical and mental health, and are a vital weapon against coronavirus. That’s why we made sure that people could exercise at least once a day even during the height of the first period of enhanced national restrictions and why we opened up grassroots sport and leisure facilities as soon as it was safe to do so.</p><p>As the Prime Minister said on 23 November national restrictions will end on Wednesday 2 December, and gyms and sport facilities will reopen across all tiers. Under Tier 3 you must not meet socially indoors or in most outdoor places with anybody you do not live with, or who is not in your support bubble, this includes in any private garden or at most outdoor venues. Gyms and sports facilities will be open for individual exercise and exercise in single households or support bubbles only. Indoor group activities and exercise classes should not take place. You can continue to do unlimited exercise alone, or in an outdoor public place in groups up to 6.</p><p>There are exceptions for the following, which can take place in any number:</p><ul><li><p>disability sport</p></li><li><p>sports as part of the curriculum in education</p></li><li><p>supervised sport and physical activity for under-18s (including those who were under 18 on 31 August 2020)</p></li></ul><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 03/12/2020 14:56:28 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

1255848

registered interest
date	26/11/2020
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	Commonwealth Games 2022: Dudley
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 the Government plans to take to help Dudley benefit from increased trade and tourism from the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games.
tabling member constituency	Dudley North
tabling member printed	Marco Longhi
uin	121378
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2020 answer text <p>The Government is working in partnership with the West Midlands Combined Authority to deliver a Tourism, Trade and Investment Programme to run alongside the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games. The Government is investing £21.3m, alongside £2.6 million from the West Midlands Combined Authority, into the programme, which will attract investment, businesses and visitors to the region.</p><p>This significant investment demonstrates the Government's commitment to ensuring that we maximise the economic legacy of the Games for the city, the West Midlands and the whole of the UK.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 03/12/2020 14:59:17 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	4789 label Biography information for Marco Longhi

1255854

registered interest
date	26/11/2020
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	Recreation Spaces: Children
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 he has made of the accessibility of (a) community and (i) green-space amenities for children in (i) Dudley and (ii) England with special education needs and/or disabilities.
tabling member constituency	Dudley North
tabling member printed	Marco Longhi
uin	121382
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2020 answer text <p>The provision of community and green space amenities, including their design and equipment is the responsibility of the Local Authority. The Local Authority has a duty of care under the Equality Act of 2010 to make reasonable adjustments to prevent those protected characteristics, including disability, experiencing a disadvantage. Section 149 of the Act places an over-arching duty on Local Authorities to eliminate discrimination, promote equality of opportunity and foster good relations between those who share a protected characteristic and those who do not. The duty expressly includes taking steps to meet the needs of disabled persons. Further detail can be found in the Act which can be accessed here: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.legislation.gov.uk%2Fukpga%2F2010%2F15%2Fcontents&amp;data=04%7C01%7CParliamentary%40communities.gov.uk%7C2cf79b708f164b87250708d89551d024%7Cbf3468109c7d43dea87224a2ef3995a8%7C0%7C0%7C637423525894528430%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=KLT16wrjzX9kZ4RpXWxAEfxhMEleUFWO97D6FCo4Dbk%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/15/contents</a>. The responsibility for local authorities falls to MCHLG.</p><p>The Children and Nature Programme is a major programme funded by Department for Education which aims to support children from disadvantaged backgrounds to have better access to natural environments. The programme prioritises pupils’ mental health and wellbeing, and engagement with school. The main target audience for the programme are schools with the highest proportion of disadvantaged pupils, Alternative Provision Institutions (API) including but not limited to Pupil Referral Units, and importantly special schools, so many of the children who are impacted by the programme will have special educational needs and/or disabilities.</p><p>The Programme comprises three delivery projects and an evaluation project. The largest project in the programme is the Nature Friendly Schools Project, which is delivering greener grounds and pupil visits to green spaces for schools with the highest proportion of disadvantaged pupils. The Government is planning to start delivery to two schools in the Dudley area from April; Hawbush Primary School in Brierley Hill and Crestwood Secondary School in Kingswinford. We are also supporting the Community Forest and Woodland Outreach Project, which aims to increase and help sustain community forest and woodland outreach activities being delivered to school children, particularly those in disadvantaged areas. In addition to this the Growing Care Farming Project aims to achieve a transformational change in the scale, scope and uptake of care farming services in England for children and adults facing disadvantage or social exclusion, to benefit their health and wellbeing and their social and educational development. The evaluation project will deepen our understanding of the effectiveness of nature-based interventions and how activities in nature impact pupils’ health and wellbeing. We are also supporting national landscapes in their aim of helping everyone, including children and young people, discover and engage with protected landscapes to benefit the health and wellbeing of the whole nation. The responsibility for these programmes falls under DEFRA.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 03/12/2020 15:33:38 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	4789 label Biography information for Marco Longhi

1255855

registered interest
date	26/11/2020
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	Commonwealth Games 2022: Dudley
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 plans he has to ensure that long-term unemployed people in Dudley benefit from the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth games.
tabling member constituency	Dudley North
tabling member printed	Marco Longhi
uin	121383
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2020 answer text <p>The Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games provide a unique and significant opportunity to accelerate employment and skills opportunities for residents across the West Midlands. The government is working closely with our Games partners to ensure we make the most of these opportunities.</p><p>The West Midlands Combined Authority has recently launched a Commonwealth Games Jobs and Skills Academy which seeks to link West Midlands residents to the thousands of training, volunteering and employment opportunities that the Games will create, with a focus on the most vulnerable at risk groups, including the long-term unemployed.</p><p><ins class="ministerial">We are working with the local Chamber of Commerce's and other West Midlands business groups to promote procurement opportunities locally. </ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"><strong></strong></ins><br /><br /></p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 03/12/2020 15:02:44 question first ministerially corrected 07/12/2020 11:25:41 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston previous answer version 66354 answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	4789 label Biography information for Marco Longhi

1255920

registered interest
date	26/11/2020
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	Public Houses: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, for what reason pubs cannot also be allowed to host rehearsals and streaming of events, with no audience, alongside theatres and arts venues whilst under covid-19 lockdown restrictions.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	121350
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2020 answer text <p>The Health Protection Coronavirus Restrictions Regulations 2020, passed by Parliament on 1st December, allows theatres and concert halls to host rehearsals or performances without an audience for broadcast or recording purposes. This regulation does not extend to pubs or other hospitality settings.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 03/12/2020 15:35:58 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

1256071

registered interest
date	26/11/2020
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 Railway Museum
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 funding his Department allocated to the National Railway Museum in the financial year (a) 2018-19 and (b) 2019-20.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	121293
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2020 answer text <p>The National Railway Museum (NRM) is part of the Science Museum Group (SMG). DCMS allocates Grant-in-Aid (GIA) to the SMG who distribute the funding across all their sites.</p><p>GIA funding information for 2018/19 and 2019/20 is published in SMG’s Annual Report and Accounts. Estimates for this financial year are published in Central Government Supply Estimates 2020/21. SMG is allowed to access additional resource GIA funding over the financial year 2020/21 in order to mitigate possible deficits as a result of the impacts of COVID-19 over the financial year. Funding is not yet fully confirmed for 2021/22.</p><p>In addition NRM has been awarded £18.5m over three years, from 2020/21 to 2022/23, from the Culture Investment Fund to support NRM’s Vision 2025 transformation project.</p><p>Search Engine, which launched in 2008, has dramatically opened up access to the museum’s archive collection and library. Since opening, 400,000 people have used the facility, which now includes more than 1,000 paintings, 2,350 prints and drawings and 1.75m photographs. DCMS does not hold information on the funding allocated to Search Engine stock purchases but the SMG has confirmed that it is adequate to meet all current and anticipated needs.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 121294 121295 121296 question first answered 03/12/2020 15:38:42 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1256072

registered interest
date	26/11/2020
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 Railway Museum
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 funding his Department allocated to the National Railway Museum for stock purchases by its library Search Engine in the financial year (a) 2018-19 and (b) 2019-20.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	121294
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2020 answer text <p>The National Railway Museum (NRM) is part of the Science Museum Group (SMG). DCMS allocates Grant-in-Aid (GIA) to the SMG who distribute the funding across all their sites.</p><p>GIA funding information for 2018/19 and 2019/20 is published in SMG’s Annual Report and Accounts. Estimates for this financial year are published in Central Government Supply Estimates 2020/21. SMG is allowed to access additional resource GIA funding over the financial year 2020/21 in order to mitigate possible deficits as a result of the impacts of COVID-19 over the financial year. Funding is not yet fully confirmed for 2021/22.</p><p>In addition NRM has been awarded £18.5m over three years, from 2020/21 to 2022/23, from the Culture Investment Fund to support NRM’s Vision 2025 transformation project.</p><p>Search Engine, which launched in 2008, has dramatically opened up access to the museum’s archive collection and library. Since opening, 400,000 people have used the facility, which now includes more than 1,000 paintings, 2,350 prints and drawings and 1.75m photographs. DCMS does not hold information on the funding allocated to Search Engine stock purchases but the SMG has confirmed that it is adequate to meet all current and anticipated needs.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 121293 121295 121296 question first answered 03/12/2020 15:38:43 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1256073

registered interest
date	26/11/2020
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 Railway Museum
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 the projected funding allocation is from his Department to the National Railway Museum for the financial year (a) 2020-21 and (b) 2021-22.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	121295
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2020 answer text <p>The National Railway Museum (NRM) is part of the Science Museum Group (SMG). DCMS allocates Grant-in-Aid (GIA) to the SMG who distribute the funding across all their sites.</p><p>GIA funding information for 2018/19 and 2019/20 is published in SMG’s Annual Report and Accounts. Estimates for this financial year are published in Central Government Supply Estimates 2020/21. SMG is allowed to access additional resource GIA funding over the financial year 2020/21 in order to mitigate possible deficits as a result of the impacts of COVID-19 over the financial year. Funding is not yet fully confirmed for 2021/22.</p><p>In addition NRM has been awarded £18.5m over three years, from 2020/21 to 2022/23, from the Culture Investment Fund to support NRM’s Vision 2025 transformation project.</p><p>Search Engine, which launched in 2008, has dramatically opened up access to the museum’s archive collection and library. Since opening, 400,000 people have used the facility, which now includes more than 1,000 paintings, 2,350 prints and drawings and 1.75m photographs. DCMS does not hold information on the funding allocated to Search Engine stock purchases but the SMG has confirmed that it is adequate to meet all current and anticipated needs.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 121293 121294 121296 question first answered 03/12/2020 15:38:43 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1256074

registered interest
date	26/11/2020
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 Railway Museum
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 funding he plans to allocate to the National Railway Museum for stock purchases by the library Search Engine in the financial year (a) 2020-21 and (b) 2021-22.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	121296
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2020 answer text <p>The National Railway Museum (NRM) is part of the Science Museum Group (SMG). DCMS allocates Grant-in-Aid (GIA) to the SMG who distribute the funding across all their sites.</p><p>GIA funding information for 2018/19 and 2019/20 is published in SMG’s Annual Report and Accounts. Estimates for this financial year are published in Central Government Supply Estimates 2020/21. SMG is allowed to access additional resource GIA funding over the financial year 2020/21 in order to mitigate possible deficits as a result of the impacts of COVID-19 over the financial year. Funding is not yet fully confirmed for 2021/22.</p><p>In addition NRM has been awarded £18.5m over three years, from 2020/21 to 2022/23, from the Culture Investment Fund to support NRM’s Vision 2025 transformation project.</p><p>Search Engine, which launched in 2008, has dramatically opened up access to the museum’s archive collection and library. Since opening, 400,000 people have used the facility, which now includes more than 1,000 paintings, 2,350 prints and drawings and 1.75m photographs. DCMS does not hold information on the funding allocated to Search Engine stock purchases but the SMG has confirmed that it is adequate to meet all current and anticipated needs.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 121293 121294 121295 question first answered 03/12/2020 15:38:43 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1255397

registered interest
date	25/11/2020
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	Tourism: Sussex
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 his Department is taking to help support the rural tourism sector in Sussex.
tabling member constituency	Arundel and South Downs
tabling member printed	Andrew Griffith
uin	121050
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2020 answer text <p>My Department is taking a number of steps to support the rural tourism sector through COVID-19 and beyond, including in Sussex.</p><p>Tourism businesses in Sussex will have benefited from the unprecedented pan-economic measures we have put in place during COVID, including the VAT cut for tourism and hospitality activities, the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, various grant and loan schemes, as well as business rates relief for the retail, leisure and hospitality sectors.</p><p>Launched in 2016, the £45m Discover England Fund has supported the development of internationally focused tourism products across England, including many with a rural focus. The ‘England’s Coast’ project highlights the South East’s coastal tourism offer, while the National Park Experience Collection contains rural itineraries for the South Downs National Park.</p><p>Between April and July, VisitEngland’s £1.3 million Destination Management Organisation Resilience Fund supported local tourism organisations in the West Midlands. Tourism South East received £25,914 from through this fund.</p><p>VisitEngland and my officials remain in close contact with regional tourism stakeholders to monitor the impact of COVID-19 and related restrictions. We also continue to work closely with the Department for Food, Environment and Rural Affairs on how we can most effectively support rural tourism’s recovery.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 03/12/2020 14:50:13 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	4874 label Biography information for Andrew Griffith