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760214

registered interest
date	13/09/2017
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: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 12 September 2017 to Question 7318, if she will make it her policy to include more women's sports events, including domestic football, cricket and rugby matches on the designated list of events to be kept free to air on terrestrial television.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	105035
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2017 answer text <p>There are currently no plans to review Listed Events. My department is keen to raise the profile of women's sport in the media and encourage more commercial investment into women's sport. Since the Olympics in 2012, there has been a notable increase in the coverage of women's sport on terrestrial television, including the 2017 UEFA Women's European Championships and the 2017 Women's Rugby World Cup. Furthermore, the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup will also be on free to air television.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 09/10/2017 12:22:16 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

755675

registered interest
date	04/09/2017
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: Females
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 bring forward proposals to ensure more women are encouraged into sport.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	7082
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2017 answer text <p>The government's sport strategy sets out our plans to get more people active, in particular in under-represented groups, including women.</p><p> </p><p>Sport England’s This Girl Can campaign, and other initiatives, have helped to narrow the gender gap in sport participation. Results from the Active Lives survey, published earlier this year, showed that 59% of women and 63% of men had done at least 150 minutes of physical activity a week, the amount of activity recommended for adults by the Chief Medical Officer.</p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 12/09/2017 16:43:18 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

755686

registered interest
date	04/09/2017
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	Sky: 21st Century Fox
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 she plans to keep Parliament informed about the merger of Sky with 21st Century Fox before making her decision on that merger; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	7334
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2017 answer text <p>I refer the Hon member to the statement made today in the chmaber by the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media &amp; Sport.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 12/09/2017 17:00:18 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

754022

registered interest
date	19/07/2017
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	Mining: Cultural Heritage
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 programmes or events her Department funds to celebrate, protect and promote the culture and heritage of former mining communities.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	6200
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2017 answer text <p>Government recognises the enormous contribution that mining communities have given and continue to give to this country and funds several cultural projects in mining areas through the Heritage Lottery Fund and Historic England.</p><p>One project, a £270,000 grant for the North East England Mining Archive and Research Centre at Sunderland University, will preserve, catalogue and provide access to the archives of the regional coal industry. Heritage Lottery Fund’s Your Heritage scheme also provided funding to the Beamish Museum in County Durham for their Mining Memories project which worked with 40 schools in specific former coalfield communities.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 07/09/2017 15:53:36 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

746934

registered interest
date	29/06/2017
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: 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, whether she plans to bring forward a strategy to ensure that all children have access to local library services.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	2065
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2017 answer text <p>The Libraries Taskforce’s strategy document, Libraries Deliver: Ambition for Public Libraries in England 2016 to 2021, sets out a bold and dynamic vision of how library services in England can help transform lives, communities and society as a whole. This includes more people, including children, benefitting from the range of services provided by libraries. Examples of initiatives to encourage increased access by children to libraries include a voluntary scheme introduced by Hampshire County Council that provides parents with the opportunity to sign up their new born babies to their library at the time of registering their birth. The Summer Reading Challenge which promotes reading for children at their local library has resulted in many thousands of children aged 4 – 11 joining a library.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 17/07/2017 15:14:25 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris