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1551729

registered interest
date	14/12/2022
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	Tickets: Sales
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 her Department has made of the potential merits of prohibiting the sale of tickets for events at a sum greater than their face value.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
uin	110873
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2022 answer text <p>The Government is committed to cracking down on unacceptable behaviour in the ticketing market and improving people’s chances of buying tickets at a reasonable price. That is why we have strengthened the law on ticketing information requirements and introduced a criminal offence of using automated software to buy more tickets online than allowed. Ticketing sites can help fans buy and resell tickets, but they must comply with the law and should never be used as a platform for breaking it.</p><p>Enforcement agencies such as the Competition and Markets Authority, National Trading Standards and the advertising industry's own regulator, the Advertising Standards Authority, have a track record of investigating breaches of consumer law and improving transparency in the ticketing market, and are prepared to go after those who flout the law or abuse the ticketing market. The recent conviction of ticket touts for the unlawful mass reselling of Ed Sheeran tickets at inflated prices and obtained by fraudulent means, is just one example.</p><p>We do not believe that price capping is an appropriate solution at this time, as experience in other markets has shown that it would not be an effective tool to address the problem at hand, and would present significant practical challenges in implementation and enforcement. Individuals are able to seek advice or report problems with goods or services bought from a trader based in the UK, and the appropriate advice agency is the Citizens Advice Consumer Service.</p> answering member constituency Hornchurch and Upminster answering member printed Julia Lopez question first answered 19/12/2022 12:47:50 answering member 4647 label Biography information for Julia Lopez
tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan

1551730

registered interest
date	14/12/2022
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: Electronic Purchasing Card Solution
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 publication of electronic purchasing card spending over £500 for April 2021 to March 2022, what items or services were purchased from Coywood Computers for £1,478.99 on 10 February 2022; and or what reason that purchase was made using the Klarna payment service.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	110645
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2022 answer text <p>In February 2022, the Department sourced 50 x HP laptop chargers from Coywood Computers for the IT service desk. The stock was required to replenish business as usual (BAU) stock to support the business with increased demand for temporary/loan chargers, whilst working in the office, and replacements for faulty chargers.</p><p>The online retailer was selected based on stock availability, at a time when technology demands were significantly higher in the Department and our regular supply chain faced long lead-times for sourcing products.</p><p>The purchase was made directly through the retailer's website and the goods were fully paid at the point of purchase, with no additional transaction fees.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hornchurch and Upminster answering member printed Julia Lopez question first answered 19/12/2022 12:46:10 answering member 4647 label Biography information for Julia Lopez
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1551743

registered interest
date	14/12/2022
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	Cricket: Bullying and 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 assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of the Cricket Discipline Commission at tackling discrimination, bullying, racism and sexism in cricket in (a) England and (b) Wales.
tabling member constituency	Stockport
tabling member printed	Navendu Mishra
uin	110880
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2022 answer text <p>The work of the Cricket Discipline Commission is a matter for the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB). The Government has no role in scrutinising its work.</p><p>We will continue to directly hold the ECB to account on cultural change in the sport, particularly around racism, and reserve the right to take further measures if progress is not made.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 19/12/2022 11:46:05 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	4811 label Biography information for Navendu Mishra

1550488

registered interest
date	12/12/2022
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	Broadband: Easington
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, for what reason average download speeds in Easington constituency are below the regional and national average; what steps she is taking to improve broadband upload speeds in Easington constituency; and how much funding has been allocated to upgrading broadband infrastructure in (a) Easington constituency, (b) the North East and (c) nationally in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	108149
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2022 answer text <p>According to the independent website thinkbroadband.com, the estimated mean download speed in the Easington constituency during the third quarter of 2022 stood at 90 Mbps. This is slightly lower than the North East regional average of 96 Mbps and the UK average of 95. These averages are derived from crowd-sourced data and it is worth noting that users may not opt for the fastest speeds available when selecting a broadband package.</p><p>Further improvements to broadband speeds in the Easington constituency will be delivered as part of our £5 billion investment in Project Gigabit, which is upgrading and future-proofing network infrastructure for decades to come. Easington is included in Project Gigabit’s North East England regional procurement, which covers up to an estimated 53,000 premises and has an indicative contract value of £82 million. Building Digital UK (BDUK) plans to award a contract between April and May next year.</p><p>In addition to our Project Gigabit procurements, we are providing additional support through the Gigabit Broadband Voucher scheme to support rural communities across the UK with the cost of installing new gigabit-capable connections. Through the Gigabit Broadband Voucher Scheme and its previous iterations, we have issued over 100,000 vouchers worth more than £214 million.</p><p>Projects under the previous Superfast Broadband Programme in the North East covering Durham, Northumberland and Newcastle benefitted from UK Government funding of £24 million, alongside £24 million from the local authorities, £2 million European funding and £26 million from suppliers, to upgrade over 170,000 premises to superfast speeds over the lifetime of the programme. BDUK also delivered a Local Full Fibre Networks (LFFN) project in the North of Tyne area, with more than £5.8 million in government funding.</p><p>At national level, spend through BDUK on broadband in each of the last five years is as follows:</p><table><tbody><tr><td rowspan="2"><p>£m</p></td><td colspan="5"><p>Year</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>18/19</p></td><td><p>19/20</p></td><td><p>20/21</p></td><td><p>21/22</p></td><td><p>22/23</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nationally</p></td><td><p>38.6</p></td><td><p>29.9</p></td><td><p>9.6</p></td><td><p>10.0</p></td><td><p>12.5</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Hornchurch and Upminster answering member printed Julia Lopez grouped question UIN 108151 question first answered 15/12/2022 14:09:09 answering member 4647 label Biography information for Julia Lopez
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1550489

registered interest
date	12/12/2022
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	Broadband: Easington
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 she is taking to improve broadband upload speeds in Easington constituency.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	108150
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2022 answer text <p>According to the independent website thinkbroadband.com, the estimated mean upload speed in the Easington constituency during the third quarter of 2022 stood at 20 Mbps. This is slightly lower than the national average of 22 Mbps across the UK. These averages are derived from crowd-sourced data and it is worth noting that users may not opt for the fastest speeds available when selecting a broadband package.</p><p>Almost 99% of premises in the Easington constituency are able to access superfast broadband (&gt;=30Mbps), which meets the vast majority of everyday requirements such as high definition streaming and video calling on multiple devices. This is higher than the national average. I am also pleased to share that 74% of premises in the Easington constituency can access a gigabit-capable connection, which is ahead of the national average of 72%.</p><p>Further improvements to broadband speeds in the Easington constituency will be delivered as part of our £5 billion investment in Project Gigabit, which is upgrading and future-proofing network infrastructure for decades to come. Easington is included in Project Gigabit’s North East England regional procurement, which covers up to an estimated 53,000 premises and has an indicative contract value of £82 million. Building Digital UK (BDUK) plans to award a contract between April and May next year.</p><p>Alongside direct Government investment, we have created a competition-friendly environment in areas where deployment is commercially viable. As a result, there is now a thriving market of over 80 providers investing nearly £35 billion rolling out gigabit broadband all over the UK.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hornchurch and Upminster answering member printed Julia Lopez question first answered 15/12/2022 09:12:03 answering member 4647 label Biography information for Julia Lopez
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1550490

registered interest
date	12/12/2022
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	Broadband
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 funding has been allocated to upgrading broadband infrastructure in (a) Easington constituency, (b) the North East and (c) nationally in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	108151
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2022 answer text <p>According to the independent website thinkbroadband.com, the estimated mean download speed in the Easington constituency during the third quarter of 2022 stood at 90 Mbps. This is slightly lower than the North East regional average of 96 Mbps and the UK average of 95. These averages are derived from crowd-sourced data and it is worth noting that users may not opt for the fastest speeds available when selecting a broadband package.</p><p>Further improvements to broadband speeds in the Easington constituency will be delivered as part of our £5 billion investment in Project Gigabit, which is upgrading and future-proofing network infrastructure for decades to come. Easington is included in Project Gigabit’s North East England regional procurement, which covers up to an estimated 53,000 premises and has an indicative contract value of £82 million. Building Digital UK (BDUK) plans to award a contract between April and May next year.</p><p>In addition to our Project Gigabit procurements, we are providing additional support through the Gigabit Broadband Voucher scheme to support rural communities across the UK with the cost of installing new gigabit-capable connections. Through the Gigabit Broadband Voucher Scheme and its previous iterations, we have issued over 100,000 vouchers worth more than £214 million.</p><p>Projects under the previous Superfast Broadband Programme in the North East covering Durham, Northumberland and Newcastle benefitted from UK Government funding of £24 million, alongside £24 million from the local authorities, £2 million European funding and £26 million from suppliers, to upgrade over 170,000 premises to superfast speeds over the lifetime of the programme. BDUK also delivered a Local Full Fibre Networks (LFFN) project in the North of Tyne area, with more than £5.8 million in government funding.</p><p>At national level, spend through BDUK on broadband in each of the last five years is as follows:</p><table><tbody><tr><td rowspan="2"><p>£m</p></td><td colspan="5"><p>Year</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>18/19</p></td><td><p>19/20</p></td><td><p>20/21</p></td><td><p>21/22</p></td><td><p>22/23</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nationally</p></td><td><p>38.6</p></td><td><p>29.9</p></td><td><p>9.6</p></td><td><p>10.0</p></td><td><p>12.5</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Hornchurch and Upminster answering member printed Julia Lopez grouped question UIN 108149 question first answered 15/12/2022 14:09:09 answering member 4647 label Biography information for Julia Lopez
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1550579

registered interest
date	12/12/2022
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	Leisure Centres and Swimming Pools: Energy
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 additional support she is making available to support swimming pools and leisure centres in response to increases in energy costs.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	108264
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2022 answer text <p>We recognise the importance of ensuring public access to swimming pools, as swimming is a great way for people of all ages to stay fit and healthy. The responsibility of providing this access lies at Local Authority level, and the Government continues to encourage Local Authorities to support swimming facilities.</p><p>We appreciate the impact rising energy prices are having on organisations of all sizes, including on operators of swimming pools. In September the Government announced the Energy Bill Relief Scheme, under which businesses and other non-domestic energy users (including swimming pools) are being offered support. The Energy Bill Relief Scheme is currently under review to ensure support is targeted to the most vulnerable sectors.</p><p>Officials in my department are in regular contact with representatives from the sector to assess the impact of rising energy costs, and how operators and local authorities are responding to them.</p><p>Sport England has invested £12,775,274 in swimming and diving projects since April 2019, which includes £9,360,002 to Swim England. This is in addition to the £100 million National Leisure Recovery Fund, which supported the reopening of local authority swimming pools throughout the country after the pandemic.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew grouped question UIN 108265 108266 108267 question first answered 15/12/2022 08:54:39 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1550581

registered interest
date	12/12/2022
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	Leisure Centres and Swimming Pools: Health
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 contribution that swimming pools and leisure centres make to physical and mental wellbeing and consequent reductions in NHS costs in the long term as a result of better health outcomes.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	108265
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2022 answer text <p>We recognise the importance of ensuring public access to swimming pools, as swimming is a great way for people of all ages to stay fit and healthy. The responsibility of providing this access lies at Local Authority level, and the Government continues to encourage Local Authorities to support swimming facilities.</p><p>We appreciate the impact rising energy prices are having on organisations of all sizes, including on operators of swimming pools. In September the Government announced the Energy Bill Relief Scheme, under which businesses and other non-domestic energy users (including swimming pools) are being offered support. The Energy Bill Relief Scheme is currently under review to ensure support is targeted to the most vulnerable sectors.</p><p>Officials in my department are in regular contact with representatives from the sector to assess the impact of rising energy costs, and how operators and local authorities are responding to them.</p><p>Sport England has invested £12,775,274 in swimming and diving projects since April 2019, which includes £9,360,002 to Swim England. This is in addition to the £100 million National Leisure Recovery Fund, which supported the reopening of local authority swimming pools throughout the country after the pandemic.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew grouped question UIN 108264 108266 108267 question first answered 15/12/2022 08:54:39 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1550582

registered interest
date	12/12/2022
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	Leisure Centres and Swimming Pools: Finance
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 she has made of the financial viability of swimming pools and leisure centres.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	108266
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2022 answer text <p>We recognise the importance of ensuring public access to swimming pools, as swimming is a great way for people of all ages to stay fit and healthy. The responsibility of providing this access lies at Local Authority level, and the Government continues to encourage Local Authorities to support swimming facilities.</p><p>We appreciate the impact rising energy prices are having on organisations of all sizes, including on operators of swimming pools. In September the Government announced the Energy Bill Relief Scheme, under which businesses and other non-domestic energy users (including swimming pools) are being offered support. The Energy Bill Relief Scheme is currently under review to ensure support is targeted to the most vulnerable sectors.</p><p>Officials in my department are in regular contact with representatives from the sector to assess the impact of rising energy costs, and how operators and local authorities are responding to them.</p><p>Sport England has invested £12,775,274 in swimming and diving projects since April 2019, which includes £9,360,002 to Swim England. This is in addition to the £100 million National Leisure Recovery Fund, which supported the reopening of local authority swimming pools throughout the country after the pandemic.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew grouped question UIN 108264 108265 108267 question first answered 15/12/2022 08:54:39 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1550583

registered interest
date	12/12/2022
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	Swimming Pools: Operating Costs
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 she will take to prevent swimming pools from closing as a result of increased running costs over the next 12 months.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	108267
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2022 answer text <p>We recognise the importance of ensuring public access to swimming pools, as swimming is a great way for people of all ages to stay fit and healthy. The responsibility of providing this access lies at Local Authority level, and the Government continues to encourage Local Authorities to support swimming facilities.</p><p>We appreciate the impact rising energy prices are having on organisations of all sizes, including on operators of swimming pools. In September the Government announced the Energy Bill Relief Scheme, under which businesses and other non-domestic energy users (including swimming pools) are being offered support. The Energy Bill Relief Scheme is currently under review to ensure support is targeted to the most vulnerable sectors.</p><p>Officials in my department are in regular contact with representatives from the sector to assess the impact of rising energy costs, and how operators and local authorities are responding to them.</p><p>Sport England has invested £12,775,274 in swimming and diving projects since April 2019, which includes £9,360,002 to Swim England. This is in addition to the £100 million National Leisure Recovery Fund, which supported the reopening of local authority swimming pools throughout the country after the pandemic.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew grouped question UIN 108264 108265 108266 question first answered 15/12/2022 08:54:39 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell