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1400459

registered interest
date	06/01/2022
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	Art Works: Nigeria
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 the Government has plans to return (a) the Benin Bronzes and (b) other historically and culturally significant artifacts to Nigeria.
tabling member constituency	Stockport
tabling member printed	Navendu Mishra
uin	99083
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2022 answer text <p>Museums and galleries in the UK operate independently of the government. Decisions relating to their collections are a matter for the trustees of each museum.</p><p>Some national museums are prevented by law from deaccessioning objects in their collections unless, broadly, they are duplicates or unfit for retention. The two exceptions to this are when the objects are human remains that are less than 1000 years old, and objects that were spoliated during the Nazi-era. The Government has no plans to change the law.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 13/01/2022 15:06:01 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	4811 label Biography information for Navendu Mishra

1383100

registered interest
date	29/11/2021
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: Stockport
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 support the roll out of full fibre to the premises ultrafast broadband in Stockport.
tabling member constituency	Stockport
tabling member printed	Navendu Mishra
uin	83505
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2021 answer text <p>At present, 93% of premises can access ultrafast broadband (&gt;100Mbps) in the constituency of Stockport, which compares favourably with the UK average of 69.03% (Thinkbroadband).</p><p>As announced in our <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/project-gigabit-delivery-plan-autumn-update/project-gigabit-delivery-plan-autumn-update" target="_blank">latest Project Gigabit delivery update</a>, the Government is assessing further Regional Supplier procurements for areas such as Stockport, where very extensive commercial delivery continues. We will provide further information for Greater Manchester and Merseyside (Lot 36) in future quarterly updates.</p><p>We also continue to subsidise telecoms providers to deliver connections to the hardest-to-reach areas through the Gigabit Broadband Voucher Scheme. A total of 48 vouchers have been used to support gigabit connections in the Stockport constituency so far, worth £123,083.</p><p>Additionally, there is an ongoing partnership between Virgin Media Business and the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) to deliver a project under the Local Full Fibre Networks (LFFN) programme. The project is partly funded by the UK Government and will underpin a wide range of digital transformation and smart city projects aimed at improving the lives of those who live in Greater Manchester.</p><p>In its first year alone, the Greater Manchester LFFN project, which is the largest within the programme, has delivered £11.8 million of economic benefit to the region through the programme’s commitment to local employment.</p><p>The ongoing delivery through this project will deliver full-fibre connectivity to 1,500 public sites across the city region. Stockport is at the forefront of this project, with 134 of the 138 public sector sites covered by the project within the town having received a full-fibre connection.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hornchurch and Upminster answering member printed Julia Lopez question first answered 06/12/2021 16:13:11 answering member 4647 label Biography information for Julia Lopez
tabling member	4811 label Biography information for Navendu Mishra

1380249

registered interest
date	19/11/2021
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	Telecommunications: Infrastructure
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 publish the outcome of the consultation on changes to the Electronic Communications Code.
tabling member constituency	Stockport
tabling member printed	Navendu Mishra
uin	78508
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2021 answer text <p>The response to the consultation on changes to the Electronic Communications Code was published today.</p><p>The proposed reforms set out in the response have today been brought forward in the Product Security and Telecommunication Infrastructure Bill, which was introduced in the House of Commons earlier.</p> answering member constituency Hornchurch and Upminster answering member printed Julia Lopez question first answered 24/11/2021 15:37:56 answering member 4647 label Biography information for Julia Lopez
tabling member	4811 label Biography information for Navendu Mishra

1378574

registered interest
date	15/11/2021
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	Gambling: Advertising
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 her Department plans to take steps to reduce gambling advertising during school run hours, in the context of analysis from Nielsen which found that approximately 1,200 hours of such advertisements aired during those times over the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Stockport
tabling member printed	Navendu Mishra
uin	75152
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/11/2021 answer text <p>All gambling advertising, wherever it appears, is subject to strict controls on content and placement. Adverts must never be targeted at children or vulnerable people, and the Committees of Advertising Practice (CAP) has recently announced changes to further restrict content that may appeal to vulnerable people, with a further announcement on measures to protect children expected shortly. Radio adverts are subject to a pre-clearance regime through RadioCentre and radio advertising receives a very low volume of complaints, accounting for only 2% of all cases investigated by the ASA in 2020.</p><p>Children’s exposure to gambling adverts through radio remains very low, with research from Ipsos Mori for GambleAware in 2020 finding that radio advertising accounted for only 1% of children and young people’s reported exposure to gambling adverts. However, it is our understanding that at least one major gambling operator has committed not to run radio adverts during ‘school run’ periods in response to Nielsen’s findings.</p><p>As part of our wide-ranging Review of the Gambling Act 2005 we are looking closely at the rules around gambling advertising and carefully considering the evidence of its impacts. A White Paper setting out future direction of travel will be published in the coming months.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 18/11/2021 10:31:38 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4811 label Biography information for Navendu Mishra

1365955

registered interest
date	03/11/2021
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	Cricket: Racial Discrimination
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 plans to take to tackle racism and discrimination in cricket following the report into allegations of racism at Yorkshire County Cricket Club.
tabling member constituency	Stockport
tabling member printed	Navendu Mishra
uin	69213
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/11/2021 answer text <p>Racism has no place in cricket, sport, or society at large. The government welcomes the firm action taken so far by the England Wales Cricket Board (ECB) in stripping Yorkshire County Cricket Club (YCCC) of its ability to host international matches and commissioning a full review of the governance structures in place at the YCCC. We urge the ECB to continue to look at this with the utmost scrutiny and take further action where needed to stamp out racism in the game.</p><p>The government has already made clear its commitment to tackling racism and all forms of discrimination in sport, as set out in the sport and physical activity strategy ‘Sporting Future’.</p><p>We continue to work closely with our arm’s length bodies, national governing bodies of sport and sector partners to tackle racism and discrimination in sport. Sport England, UK Sport and the other home nations’ sports councils recently published the results of a detailed, independent review into tackling racism and racial inequality in sport. Each Council is working at pace to develop their own specific action plans to further deliver on diversity and inclusion commitments and address the recommendations from the review.</p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 08/11/2021 08:52:08 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	4811 label Biography information for Navendu Mishra

1344713

registered interest
date	07/07/2021
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	Public Libraries: 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 the Answer of 15 October 2020 to Question HL8910 on Public Libraries: Coronavirus, what the outcome was of the joint letter with the Local Government Association to local authorities in England requesting detail of restoration of their library services.
tabling member constituency	Stockport
tabling member printed	Navendu Mishra
uin	29149
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2021 answer text <p>The joint letter was issued on 16 July 2020 and followed physical library buildings being permitted to reopen at that time. The purpose of the letter was to remind local authorities in England of the Secretary of State’s statutory duty under the Public Libraries and Museums Act 1964 and asked them to share their plans for the restoration of their library service from July 2020 onwards to assist this function. Of the 150 local authorities in England, 149 responded to this request, including a detailed reply from Stockport.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Since that time further restrictions and lockdowns were introduced which restricted the services libraries were able to deliver and included physical library locations having to close during the lockdown earlier this year. DCMS worked closely with library sector stakeholders to identify and achieve important exceptions to restrictions on physical services and although library locations were closed they were enabled to provide limited specific services including order and collect services or providing access to public PCs for essential services and home library services. Whether services were provided was for each local authority to determine after appropriate risk assessments around safety of both users and people working in libraries.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 12/07/2021 14:38:57 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4811 label Biography information for Navendu Mishra

1343877

registered interest
date	05/07/2021
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	Digital Technology: Disability and Older People
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 he will publish an assessment of the effectiveness of the Digital Lifeline project in respect of (a) older people and (b) people with a learning disability.
tabling member constituency	Stockport
tabling member printed	Navendu Mishra
uin	27359
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2021 answer text <p>During the pandemic, the ability to connect online has supported many people to maintain vital social connections. However some people, including those with learning disabilities, have faced digital inclusion barriers such as access to mobile technology and the internet, or a lack of digital skills and confidence.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The Digital Lifeline fund is aimed at supporting those with learning disabilities. The £2.5 million fund is providing tablets, data and free digital support to over 5,000 people with learning disabilities who would otherwise find it difficult to get online. The fund is enabling people to connect with friends, family and essential services. We are aiming to publish a full evaluation of the Digital Lifeline fund towards the end of the year.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 09/07/2021 11:07:36 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4811 label Biography information for Navendu Mishra