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1146496

registered interest
date	26/09/2019
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	Musicians: British Nationals Abroad
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she has taken to ensure that British musicians will be able to apply for work permits that will be valid from 1 November 2019 in the event that an agreement is not reached before the UK leaves the EU.
tabling member constituency	Bury North
tabling member printed	James Frith
uin	291425
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/10/2019 answer text <p>When the UK leaves the EU on 31 October 2019, free movement as it currently stands will end. Musicians will need to check if they need a visa or work permit and meet any requirements for their profession to work in the EU country they’re visiting.</p><p> </p><p>Officials are meeting with the music industry to ensure that professionals in the sector are aware of Government guidance on EU Exit, and have time to prepare for changes at the border in the event the UK leaves without a Deal.</p> answering member constituency Selby and Ainsty answering member printed Nigel Adams question first answered 02/10/2019 16:28:07 answering member 4057 label Biography information for Nigel Adams
tabling member	4637 label Biography information for James Frith

1146560

registered interest
date	26/09/2019
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	Huawei: 5G
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 assessments he has made of the potential (a) merits and (b) risks of allowing Huawei to access the UK’s 5G network.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	291325
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/10/2019 answer text <p>The Telecoms Supply Chain Review published in July 2019 drew on a large evidence base including economic and security factors. This included a full security risk assessment undertaken by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC).</p><p> </p><p>Decisions on any controls relating to high risk vendors have been deferred to allow the implications of the US entity listing on the telecoms market as a whole to be taken into account. These decisions will be announced in due course.</p> answering member constituency Boston and Skegness answering member printed Matt Warman question first answered 02/10/2019 16:01:23 answering member 4361 label Biography information for Matt Warman
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1146613

registered interest
date	26/09/2019
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: West Midlands
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 increase tourism in the West Midlands.
tabling member constituency	Dudley North
tabling member printed	Ian Austin
uin	291307
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/10/2019 answer text <p>A number of the projects funded by the £40 million Discover England Fund, launched by Government in 2016 and delivered by VisitEngland, are based in the West Midlands and aim to support and increase visits and spend by international tourists to the region through the provision of innovative, bookable itineraries and routes:</p><ul><li>The England’s Waterways project encourages visitors to explore the region by narrowboat, on bikes or on foot via its extensive network of canals and towpaths, and visit towns and cities such as Coventry and Warwick.</li><li>The England Originals project provides a range of multi-day rail itineraries starting in London that allow tourists to visit historic cities across England; the itinerary Thinkers and Writers includes Worcester and Stratford-upon-Avon.</li><li>The Experience England project is aimed at the millennial market in China, GCC countries and India, providing itineraries spanning cities and countryside that allow tourists to fly into one airport and out of another. One itinerary brings tourists to Birmingham and attractions such as the Bullring and Cadbury World<p> </p></li></ul><p>The region will also host two major arts and culture and sporting events in the coming years:</p><ul><li>In 2021, Coventry will be the host city for the UK City of Culture and in 2022 Birmingham will host the 22nd Commonwealth Games. The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport has and is continuing to support bringing both events in the West Midlands and both are expected to increase international interest and visitors.</li></ul><p><br> In the past three years, IPS data indicates that inbound tourism to the West Midlands has hit new heights, welcoming 2.38 million visitors in 2017 and 2.2 million in 2018. Last year these visitors spent £836 million, a year-on-year increase of 4%.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 03/10/2019 15:10:47 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	1511 label Biography information for Lord Austin of Dudley

1146679

registered interest
date	26/09/2019
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	BBC: Complaints
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 she will make an assessment of the adequacy of the BBC Executive Complaints Unit’s interpretation of its impartiality guidelines in supporting a complaint against Ms Naga Munchetty for her comments about remarks made by the President of the United States.
tabling member constituency	West Ham
tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
uin	291348
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/10/2019 answer text <p>The BBC is operationally and editorially independent from government. It is therefore not for the government to undertake this kind of assessment.</p><p> </p><p>The BBC’s website sets out how it will handle complaints: http://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/handle-complaint/. Where the BBC’s complaints process has been exhausted, there may be recourse to take the complaint to Ofcom as the BBC’s independent regulator</p> answering member constituency Selby and Ainsty answering member printed Nigel Adams question first answered 02/10/2019 16:32:29 answering member 4057 label Biography information for Nigel Adams
tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

1145696

registered interest
date	25/09/2019
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	Business: Data Protection
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 her Department has made of the number of data flow contractual clauses which will need to be arranged by businesses in the UK with business in the EU in the event of the UK leaving the EU (a) with and (b) without a deal.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
uin	290718
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/10/2019 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.</p> answering member constituency Selby and Ainsty answering member printed Nigel Adams question first answered 08/10/2019 16:32:17 answering member 4057 label Biography information for Nigel Adams
tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

1145784

registered interest
date	25/09/2019
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	YouTube: Artificial Intelligence
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 New York Times report, entitled How YouTube Radicalised Brazil, published 11 August 2019, if she will make an assessment of whether YouTube’s recommendation algorithm has played a role in increasing (a) radicalisation and (b) misinformation.
tabling member constituency	West Ham
tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
uin	290773
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/10/2019 answer text <p>The government recognises the importance of algorithms as part of the responsible deployment of digital technologies. To this end, the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) established the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation (CDEI) in November 2018. The Centre provides government with independent, expert advice on measures needed to enable/ensure safe, ethical and innovative uses of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and data-driven technologies. The Centre’s 2019/20 Work Programme is focused on delivering two major reviews, including one on online targeting. The Targeting Review is investigating how data is used to shape people’s online environments via the personalisation and targeting of messages, content and services online. Interim findings were published in July 2019, alongside a literature review, and the Centre will publish its final recommendations this December.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, the Online Harms White Paper sets out our plans for world-leading legislation to make the UK the safest place in the world to be online. This will make companies more responsible for their users’ safety online. The government expects companies to proactively engage in looking at tech solutions, including ensuring their algorithms do not inadvertently cause harm. We are working closely with social media platforms to encourage and promote responsible behaviour ahead of the implementation of the online harms regulatory framework.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Boston and Skegness answering member printed Matt Warman grouped question UIN 290774 290775 question first answered 03/10/2019 13:05:09 answering member 4361 label Biography information for Matt Warman
tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

1145785

registered interest
date	25/09/2019
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	YouTube: Artificial Intelligence
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 she will make an assessment of the effect of YouTube’s recommendation algorithm on trends in the level of (a) radicalisation and (b) misinformation in the UK in the last three years.
tabling member constituency	West Ham
tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
uin	290774
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/10/2019 answer text <p>The government recognises the importance of algorithms as part of the responsible deployment of digital technologies. To this end, the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) established the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation (CDEI) in November 2018. The Centre provides government with independent, expert advice on measures needed to enable/ensure safe, ethical and innovative uses of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and data-driven technologies. The Centre’s 2019/20 Work Programme is focused on delivering two major reviews, including one on online targeting. The Targeting Review is investigating how data is used to shape people’s online environments via the personalisation and targeting of messages, content and services online. Interim findings were published in July 2019, alongside a literature review, and the Centre will publish its final recommendations this December.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, the Online Harms White Paper sets out our plans for world-leading legislation to make the UK the safest place in the world to be online. This will make companies more responsible for their users’ safety online. The government expects companies to proactively engage in looking at tech solutions, including ensuring their algorithms do not inadvertently cause harm. We are working closely with social media platforms to encourage and promote responsible behaviour ahead of the implementation of the online harms regulatory framework.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Boston and Skegness answering member printed Matt Warman grouped question UIN 290773 290775 question first answered 03/10/2019 13:05:09 answering member 4361 label Biography information for Matt Warman
tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

1145786

registered interest
date	25/09/2019
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	YouTube: Artificial Intelligence
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 she will make an assessment of the potential effect of YouTube’s recommendation algorithm on the dissemination of misinformation on public health.
tabling member constituency	West Ham
tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
uin	290775
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/10/2019 answer text <p>The government recognises the importance of algorithms as part of the responsible deployment of digital technologies. To this end, the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) established the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation (CDEI) in November 2018. The Centre provides government with independent, expert advice on measures needed to enable/ensure safe, ethical and innovative uses of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and data-driven technologies. The Centre’s 2019/20 Work Programme is focused on delivering two major reviews, including one on online targeting. The Targeting Review is investigating how data is used to shape people’s online environments via the personalisation and targeting of messages, content and services online. Interim findings were published in July 2019, alongside a literature review, and the Centre will publish its final recommendations this December.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, the Online Harms White Paper sets out our plans for world-leading legislation to make the UK the safest place in the world to be online. This will make companies more responsible for their users’ safety online. The government expects companies to proactively engage in looking at tech solutions, including ensuring their algorithms do not inadvertently cause harm. We are working closely with social media platforms to encourage and promote responsible behaviour ahead of the implementation of the online harms regulatory framework.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Boston and Skegness answering member printed Matt Warman grouped question UIN 290773 290774 question first answered 03/10/2019 13:05:09 answering member 4361 label Biography information for Matt Warman
tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

1145887

registered interest
date	25/09/2019
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 Broadcasting: Radio
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 progress her Department has made on implementing small-scale DAB radio.
tabling member constituency	Dunfermline and West Fife
tabling member printed	Douglas Chapman
uin	290842
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/10/2019 answer text <p>DCMS brought forward detailed secondary legislation that will allow Ofcom to licence small-scale DAB radio multiplex services in June 2019. The small-scale Radio Multiplex and Community Digital Radio Order 2019 completed its Commons and Lords committee stages where it received cross party support. We expect the Order will shortly complete its final stage of a Motion from the House of Commons.</p><p>The next phase is for Ofcom to complete the consultation on their plans to license small-scale DAB, using the new powers the Government is proposing, through Parliament, to give them. Ofcom expect to be able to publish a post-consultation Statement early next year, at which point Ofcom plan to begin the process of advertising new small-scale radio multiplex licences.</p> answering member constituency Selby and Ainsty answering member printed Nigel Adams question first answered 01/10/2019 16:12:13 answering member 4057 label Biography information for Nigel Adams
tabling member	4402 label Biography information for Douglas Chapman

1145964

registered interest
date	25/09/2019
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	Cyber Skills Immediate Impact Fund
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 her Department's announcement entitled New boost to increase diversity in nation’s cyber security industry published on 14 August 2019, what target her Department has set on the number of people who will be assisted by the third round of funding from the Cyber Skills Immediate Impact Fund.
tabling member constituency	Leigh
tabling member printed	Jo Platt
uin	291081
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/09/2019 answer text <p>The Cyber Skills Immediate Impact Fund encourages a sector-led approach to stimulating the cyber security retraining ecosystem in a sustainable way. It is designed to increase the number and diversity of individuals pursuing a career in the cyber security profession. Launched in 2018, the Cyber Skills Immediate Impact Fund announced its third funding round on 14 August 2019.</p><p> </p><p>We are currently running an open grant competition for proposed initiatives to apply for funding. We expect to support several new initiatives in this round of funding, working closely with employers to maximise the employment prospects of the individuals benefiting from the training programmes. Over 400 people have already benefited from training supported by previous funding rounds, and our objective is that greater numbers will benefit as the businesses we partner with further invest in this sector. The outcome of this programme will be reported in due course.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Boston and Skegness answering member printed Matt Warman question first answered 30/09/2019 14:49:41 answering member 4361 label Biography information for Matt Warman
tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt