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1503313

registered interest
date	02/09/2022
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	BBC: Local Broadcasting
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 hold discussions with the BBC on its assessment of the potential impact of ending the weekly current affairs programme entitled We Are England on the provision of regional news broadcasts.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
tabling member printed	Alex Norris
uin	44956
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/09/2022 answer text <p>The Government recognises that local and regional news and current affairs play a vital role in bringing communities together and providing shared experiences across the UK, and the BBC has an important role to play.</p><p>The BBC’s mission and public purposes are set out in the Royal Charter. The Charter requires the BBC to provide impartial news and information to help build people’s understanding of all parts of the United Kingdom and of the wider world. The BBC should offer a range and depth of analysis so that all audiences can engage fully with major local, regional, national, United Kingdom and global issues.</p><p>This is alongside broader legislative and regulatory obligations for all public service broadcasters, including the BBC, which are required to provide high quality, impartial news and current affairs programmes. The BBC, ITV and STV are also required to provide regional news. The Government has no plans to relax these requirements.</p><p>The BBC was given a fair licence fee settlement that aims to support households at a time when they need that support the most. It sends an important message about keeping costs down while also giving the BBC what it needs to deliver on its remit. With this settlement, the BBC will continue to receive around £3.8 billion in annual public funding, allowing it to deliver its mission and public purposes and to continue doing what it does best.</p><p>As the BBC is operationally and editorially independent from the Government, and decisions over its spending and how it meets its obligations and delivers its services are a matter for the BBC.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Hornchurch and Upminster answering member printed Julia Lopez grouped question UIN 44958 44960 45151 question first answered 20/09/2022 08:39:16 answering member 4647 label Biography information for Julia Lopez
tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris

1503314

registered interest
date	02/09/2022
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	Local Broadcasting
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 take steps to ensure that local news production is at the centre of (a) the BBC and (b) other modern media stations.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
tabling member printed	Alex Norris
uin	44958
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/09/2022 answer text <p>The Government recognises that local and regional news and current affairs play a vital role in bringing communities together and providing shared experiences across the UK, and the BBC has an important role to play.</p><p>The BBC’s mission and public purposes are set out in the Royal Charter. The Charter requires the BBC to provide impartial news and information to help build people’s understanding of all parts of the United Kingdom and of the wider world. The BBC should offer a range and depth of analysis so that all audiences can engage fully with major local, regional, national, United Kingdom and global issues.</p><p>This is alongside broader legislative and regulatory obligations for all public service broadcasters, including the BBC, which are required to provide high quality, impartial news and current affairs programmes. The BBC, ITV and STV are also required to provide regional news. The Government has no plans to relax these requirements.</p><p>The BBC was given a fair licence fee settlement that aims to support households at a time when they need that support the most. It sends an important message about keeping costs down while also giving the BBC what it needs to deliver on its remit. With this settlement, the BBC will continue to receive around £3.8 billion in annual public funding, allowing it to deliver its mission and public purposes and to continue doing what it does best.</p><p>As the BBC is operationally and editorially independent from the Government, and decisions over its spending and how it meets its obligations and delivers its services are a matter for the BBC.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Hornchurch and Upminster answering member printed Julia Lopez grouped question UIN 44956 44960 45151 question first answered 20/09/2022 08:39:16 answering member 4647 label Biography information for Julia Lopez
tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris

1503315

registered interest
date	02/09/2022
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	BBC: Local Broadcasting
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 assessment she has made of the potential impact of programme sharing across neighbouring regional stations by the BBC on local news provision.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
tabling member printed	Alex Norris
uin	44960
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/09/2022 answer text <p>The Government recognises that local and regional news and current affairs play a vital role in bringing communities together and providing shared experiences across the UK, and the BBC has an important role to play.</p><p>The BBC’s mission and public purposes are set out in the Royal Charter. The Charter requires the BBC to provide impartial news and information to help build people’s understanding of all parts of the United Kingdom and of the wider world. The BBC should offer a range and depth of analysis so that all audiences can engage fully with major local, regional, national, United Kingdom and global issues.</p><p>This is alongside broader legislative and regulatory obligations for all public service broadcasters, including the BBC, which are required to provide high quality, impartial news and current affairs programmes. The BBC, ITV and STV are also required to provide regional news. The Government has no plans to relax these requirements.</p><p>The BBC was given a fair licence fee settlement that aims to support households at a time when they need that support the most. It sends an important message about keeping costs down while also giving the BBC what it needs to deliver on its remit. With this settlement, the BBC will continue to receive around £3.8 billion in annual public funding, allowing it to deliver its mission and public purposes and to continue doing what it does best.</p><p>As the BBC is operationally and editorially independent from the Government, and decisions over its spending and how it meets its obligations and delivers its services are a matter for the BBC.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Hornchurch and Upminster answering member printed Julia Lopez grouped question UIN 44956 44958 45151 question first answered 20/09/2022 08:39:16 answering member 4647 label Biography information for Julia Lopez
tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris

1503323

registered interest
date	02/09/2022
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	Broadcasting: Music
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 her Department will make an assessment of the adequacy of legislation on the use of (a) lip syncing and (b) pre-recordings at performances advertised as being live.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Zarah Sultana
uin	44985
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2022 answer text <p>The use of lip syncing and pre-recordings as part of performances advertised as being live is a decision for the artist or performer, and a private contractual matter between them and the event organiser. Event organisers, as with all businesses and traders, must comply with consumer rights legislation.</p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 07/09/2022 14:22:24 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	4786 label Biography information for Zarah Sultana

1491386

registered interest
date	21/07/2022
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	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport: Consultants
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 her Department has spent on external consultants in each of the last five years; and if she will publish a breakdown of (a) the amount paid to each consultancy contracted, (b) the name of each consultancy contracted, (c) the specific matters on which they were consulted and (d) whether each contract was subject to usual Government procurement rules.
tabling member constituency	Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath
tabling member printed	Neale Hanvey
uin	42239
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2022 answer text <p>The Department has spent the following amount on external consultancy services in the past 5 financial years. Values include VAT that is non-recoverable, whilst VAT that is recoverable has been deducted accordingly. The values for FY21/22 are subject to change following audit and the final value will be published in the DCMS Annual Report and Accounts FY21/22.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>FY17/18</p></td><td><p>FY18/19</p></td><td><p>FY19/20</p></td><td><p>FY20/21</p></td><td><p>FY21/22*</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Consultancy</p></td><td><p>£2,700,000.00</p></td><td><p>£3,300,000.00</p></td><td><p>£3,900,000.00</p></td><td><p>£16,600,000.00</p></td><td><p>£17,512,000.00</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Details of all Government contracts awarded from 2016 above £10,000 and £25,000 in the wider public sector are published on <a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fcontracts-finder&amp;data=05%7C01%7Cemmy.clarkson%40dhsc.gov.uk%7C332dd3e59a5f4b1b1e5308da6b104a3e%7C61278c3091a84c318c1fef4de8973a1c%7C1%7C0%7C637940014946084226%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=EHT%2Bj9EH86g04c73Xn7YYL0Qyi3Lc4Dm8J%2F8B8YuCNE%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Contracts Finder</a>. Each award notice provides information on the name of the supplier, value of the contract, its purpose and information on the type of awarding procedure used. Government departments, their individual agencies and Arms Length Bodies are required to publish all spend against individual suppliers above £25,000 on <a href="http://gov.uk/" target="_blank">GOV.UK</a>.</p><p>All Government Departments and their individual ALBs and agencies are required to follow the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 in awarding contracts.</p> answering member constituency Boston and Skegness answering member printed Matt Warman question first answered 05/09/2022 16:02:56 answering member 4361 label Biography information for Matt Warman
tabling member	4782 label Biography information for Neale Hanvey

1491410

registered interest
date	21/07/2022
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	Cultural Heritage: Ukraine
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 has had recent discussions with her Ukrainian counterpart on providing support for the cataloguing of Ukrainian cultural artefacts which have been damaged or lost during Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
tabling member constituency	Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey
tabling member printed	Drew Hendry
uin	42068
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2022 answer text <p>Since the beginning of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, DCMS Ministers and officials have been in regular contact with their Ukrainian counterparts, international partners and UK cultural institutions regarding the protection of Ukrainian cultural heritage. The UK is currently providing financial support through DCMS’s flagship Cultural Protection Fund, a partnership with the British Council. This covers among other activities the documentation of damage to cultural heritage, safeguarding Ukraine’s cultural heritage in-situ, and supporting Ukrainian artists and cultural practitioners.</p><p>DCMS officials are also working across Government to ensure that cultural heritage protection is integrated into all relevant apparatus around war crimes. Officials are examining how to support baseline evidence collection on cultural heritage destruction in Ukraine, as well as developing longer-term approaches.</p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston grouped question UIN 42069 42072 question first answered 05/09/2022 13:12:20 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	4467 label Biography information for Drew Hendry

1491412

registered interest
date	21/07/2022
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	Cultural Heritage: Ukraine
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 officials in her Department have had discussions with representatives of UK cultural bodies on the potential support they can give their Ukrainian counterparts to help protect Ukrainian cultural heritage during the Russian invasion of that country.
tabling member constituency	Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey
tabling member printed	Drew Hendry
uin	42069
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2022 answer text <p>Since the beginning of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, DCMS Ministers and officials have been in regular contact with their Ukrainian counterparts, international partners and UK cultural institutions regarding the protection of Ukrainian cultural heritage. The UK is currently providing financial support through DCMS’s flagship Cultural Protection Fund, a partnership with the British Council. This covers among other activities the documentation of damage to cultural heritage, safeguarding Ukraine’s cultural heritage in-situ, and supporting Ukrainian artists and cultural practitioners.</p><p>DCMS officials are also working across Government to ensure that cultural heritage protection is integrated into all relevant apparatus around war crimes. Officials are examining how to support baseline evidence collection on cultural heritage destruction in Ukraine, as well as developing longer-term approaches.</p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston grouped question UIN 42068 42072 question first answered 05/09/2022 13:12:20 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	4467 label Biography information for Drew Hendry

1491418

registered interest
date	21/07/2022
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	Future of Compute Review: Public Appointments
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 process was used to appoint members of the expert panel that are leading the future of compute review.
tabling member constituency	Ogmore
tabling member printed	Chris Elmore
uin	42147
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2022 answer text <p>The Future of Compute review was launched on 13 June 2022. It will produce recommendations on the UK’s compute capability over the next decade, and report to the Chancellor of the Exchequer and Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. The <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/future-of-compute-review" target="_blank">terms of reference</a> can be found on gov.uk, and outline the objectives, outputs and themes that will be covered by the review.</p><p>Zoubin Ghahramani, Professor of Information Engineering at the University of Cambridge and Vice President of Research at Google, was appointed to lead the review. Professor Ghahramani was selected because of his strong credentials in both the applications and fundamentals of computer science, and experience of working in public and private sector capacities.</p><p>The lead reviewer will be supported by a panel of experts from across the computing field. These experts will help provide high level oversight and quality assurance of the evidence supporting the final recommendations, similar to the approach taken for previous reviews. Experts were selected to ensure broad expertise in compute applications, including simulation and modelling, and across diverse sections of industry and research communities.</p><p>The panellists are:</p><ul><li>Professor Anne Trefethen FREng, Pro-Vice Chancellor and Professor of Scientific Computing, University of Oxford.</li><li>Dr Graham Spittle, CBE, Dean of Innovation at Edinburgh University.</li><li>Shaheen Sayed, Senior Managing Director, Technology Lead, Accenture UK and Ireland.</li><li>Sue Daley, Director of Technology &amp; Innovation, TechUK.</li></ul><p>The lead reviewer and panel members will not receive remuneration.</p> answering member constituency Folkestone and Hythe answering member printed Damian Collins grouped question UIN 42148 42149 42150 42151 42152 42153 question first answered 05/09/2022 15:27:14 answering member 3986 label Biography information for Damian Collins
tabling member	4572 label Biography information for Chris Elmore

1491419

registered interest
date	21/07/2022
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	Future of Compute Review: Pay
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 members of the expert panel that are leading the future of compute review are receiving remuneration.
tabling member constituency	Ogmore
tabling member printed	Chris Elmore
uin	42148
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2022 answer text <p>The Future of Compute review was launched on 13 June 2022. It will produce recommendations on the UK’s compute capability over the next decade, and report to the Chancellor of the Exchequer and Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. The <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/future-of-compute-review" target="_blank">terms of reference</a> can be found on gov.uk, and outline the objectives, outputs and themes that will be covered by the review.</p><p>Zoubin Ghahramani, Professor of Information Engineering at the University of Cambridge and Vice President of Research at Google, was appointed to lead the review. Professor Ghahramani was selected because of his strong credentials in both the applications and fundamentals of computer science, and experience of working in public and private sector capacities.</p><p>The lead reviewer will be supported by a panel of experts from across the computing field. These experts will help provide high level oversight and quality assurance of the evidence supporting the final recommendations, similar to the approach taken for previous reviews. Experts were selected to ensure broad expertise in compute applications, including simulation and modelling, and across diverse sections of industry and research communities.</p><p>The panellists are:</p><ul><li>Professor Anne Trefethen FREng, Pro-Vice Chancellor and Professor of Scientific Computing, University of Oxford.</li><li>Dr Graham Spittle, CBE, Dean of Innovation at Edinburgh University.</li><li>Shaheen Sayed, Senior Managing Director, Technology Lead, Accenture UK and Ireland.</li><li>Sue Daley, Director of Technology &amp; Innovation, TechUK.</li></ul><p>The lead reviewer and panel members will not receive remuneration.</p> answering member constituency Folkestone and Hythe answering member printed Damian Collins grouped question UIN 42147 42149 42150 42151 42152 42153 question first answered 05/09/2022 15:27:14 answering member 3986 label Biography information for Damian Collins
tabling member	4572 label Biography information for Chris Elmore

1491421

registered interest
date	21/07/2022
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	Future of Compute Review: Public Appointments
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 publish the job description for the role of the expert panel member for the future of compute review.
tabling member constituency	Ogmore
tabling member printed	Chris Elmore
uin	42149
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2022 answer text <p>The Future of Compute review was launched on 13 June 2022. It will produce recommendations on the UK’s compute capability over the next decade, and report to the Chancellor of the Exchequer and Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. The <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/future-of-compute-review" target="_blank">terms of reference</a> can be found on gov.uk, and outline the objectives, outputs and themes that will be covered by the review.</p><p>Zoubin Ghahramani, Professor of Information Engineering at the University of Cambridge and Vice President of Research at Google, was appointed to lead the review. Professor Ghahramani was selected because of his strong credentials in both the applications and fundamentals of computer science, and experience of working in public and private sector capacities.</p><p>The lead reviewer will be supported by a panel of experts from across the computing field. These experts will help provide high level oversight and quality assurance of the evidence supporting the final recommendations, similar to the approach taken for previous reviews. Experts were selected to ensure broad expertise in compute applications, including simulation and modelling, and across diverse sections of industry and research communities.</p><p>The panellists are:</p><ul><li>Professor Anne Trefethen FREng, Pro-Vice Chancellor and Professor of Scientific Computing, University of Oxford.</li><li>Dr Graham Spittle, CBE, Dean of Innovation at Edinburgh University.</li><li>Shaheen Sayed, Senior Managing Director, Technology Lead, Accenture UK and Ireland.</li><li>Sue Daley, Director of Technology &amp; Innovation, TechUK.</li></ul><p>The lead reviewer and panel members will not receive remuneration.</p> answering member constituency Folkestone and Hythe answering member printed Damian Collins grouped question UIN 42147 42148 42150 42151 42152 42153 question first answered 05/09/2022 15:27:14 answering member 3986 label Biography information for Damian Collins
tabling member	4572 label Biography information for Chris Elmore