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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

1255307

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	Television Licences
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 many people have cancelled their TV licence since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	120793
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2020 answer text <p>The BBC is responsible for administration of TV licences and, therefore, the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport does not hold this information.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The TV Licensing website has some information on the number of cancelled licences for 2018/19 and 2019/20: <a href="https://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/about/foi-licences-facts-and-figures-AB18" target="_blank">https://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/about/foi-licences-facts-and-figures-AB18</a></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>More information may be held by the BBC.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Maldon answering member printed Mr John Whittingdale question first answered 01/12/2020 10:57:02 answering member 39 label Biography information for Sir John Whittingdale
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1255326

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	Lord Alfred Douglas
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 19 November 2020 to Question 114761, if he will release ownership of the original manuscript of the work of Lord Alfred Douglas entitled In Excelsis, written during his time in jail and held in the Public Records Office to the estate of the late Lord Alfred Douglas.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	120768
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2020 answer text <p>The notebook which contains “In Excelsis” was issued by the Governor of Wormwood Scrubs prison to Lord Alfred Douglas while he was in custody there in 1924. As such the notebook was then, and is now, property of the Crown. As a Public Record in line with the provisions of the Public Records Act 1958, it is permanently preserved as a public record at The National Archives and it would not be appropriate to de-accession it.</p><p><strong></strong></p> answering member constituency Maldon answering member printed Mr John Whittingdale question first answered 30/11/2020 18:50:50 answering member 39 label Biography information for Sir John Whittingdale
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

1255359

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	Youth Investment 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, what steps he is taking to ensure that the Youth Investment Fund will be available within the next six months.
tabling member constituency	Rother Valley
tabling member printed	Alexander Stafford
uin	121047
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2020 answer text <p>Government recognises the significant impact of Covid-19 on young people, particularly the most vulnerable, and on the youth services that support them. A £16.5m Youth Covid-19 Support Fund has been announced which will protect the immediate future of grassroots and national youth organisations across the country.</p><p>The funding will be allocated from the Government’s unprecedented £750 million package of support which is benefiting tens of thousands of frontline charities, so they can continue their vital work. More than £60 million of this package has already been provided to organisations working with vulnerable children and young people.</p><p>The Youth Investment Fund remains a manifesto commitment for transformative levelling up across the country over the course of the parliament. In the recent announced Spending Review £30m of this was committed as capital investment for 2021-22. This will provide a transformational investment in new and refurbished safe spaces for young people, so they can access support youth workers, and positive activities out of school, including sport and culture. Further details of the timetable for allocation will be announced in due course.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Maldon answering member printed Mr John Whittingdale question first answered 01/12/2020 15:18:16 answering member 39 label Biography information for Sir John Whittingdale
tabling member	4866 label Biography information for Alexander Stafford

1255367

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	Exercise: Congleton
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 group exercise classes will be permitted to take place indoors from the end of the November 2020 lockdown period in Congleton constituency provided that social distancing is enforced.
tabling member constituency	Congleton
tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
uin	120843
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2020 answer text <p>As announced on Thursday 26 November, Cheshire will be placed into Tier 2 of coronavirus restrictions when the national lockdown ends on 2 December. Under Tier 2 you must not socialise with anyone you do not live with or who is not in your support bubble in any indoor setting, whether at home or in a public place.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Organised outdoor sport, and physical activity and exercise classes can continue. However, organised indoor sport, physical activity and exercise classes will only be permitted if it is possible for people to avoid mixing with people they do not live with (or share a support bubble with). There are exceptions for indoor disability sport, sport for educational purposes and supervised sport and physical activity for under-18s, which can take place with larger groups mixing.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Further guidance will be published shortly.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 30/11/2020 18:16:19 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce

1255371

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	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport: Procurement
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 23 November 2020 to Question 116638 on Government Departments: Procurement, what steps he is taking to (a) identify and (b) tackle potential (i) conflicts of interest and (ii) bias in his Department's procurement process.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	120987
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2020 answer text <p>The department takes all possible steps to identify and tackle conflict of interest and potential bias, including the embedment of fair and open tender processes, overseen by multiple officials from different areas of the department. Other measures include regular review of our policies, ensuring they are relevant to current contexts and adhere to central government guidelines.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Maldon answering member printed Mr John Whittingdale question first answered 30/11/2020 18:51:47 answering member 39 label Biography information for Sir John Whittingdale
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1255383

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	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport: Procurement
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 many covid-19 procurement contracts were awarded by his Department retrospectively after work had already been carried out.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	120989
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2020 answer text <p>No COVID-19 contracts were awarded by the Department retrospectively after work had already been carried out.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Maldon answering member printed Mr John Whittingdale question first answered 30/11/2020 18:53:24 answering member 39 label Biography information for Sir John Whittingdale
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

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