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1524400

registered interest
date	19/10/2022
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	Media: Privacy
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 protect the public from media intrusion.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	67141
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2022 answer text <p>The Government is committed to a free and independent press, and does not intervene in what the press can and cannot publish. We are clear, however, that with this freedom, comes responsibility, which media organisations must take seriously.</p><p>It is important that there exists an independent self regulatory regime to ensure that the press adheres to a wide set of clear and appropriate standards, and to offer individuals a means of redress where these are not met.</p> answering member constituency Hornchurch and Upminster answering member printed Julia Lopez question first answered 25/10/2022 14:57:51 answering member 4647 label Biography information for Julia Lopez
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

1524407

registered interest
date	19/10/2022
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: Expenditure
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 the annual spend is for (a) Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games, (b) Natural History Museum at Harwell, (c) 4th National Lottery Licence Competition, (d) Local Full Fibre Networks, (e) Shared Rural Network, (f) UNBOXED: Creativity in the UK, (g) Blythe House Programme and (h) Project Gigabit in each of the financial years from 2022-23 until the end year of each project, providing resource and capital spending.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	67035
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2022 answer text <table><tbody><tr><td rowspan="3"><p> </p></td><td colspan="6"><p>(£m)</p></td><td rowspan="3"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>Resource</p></td><td colspan="3"><p>Capital</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>22-23</p></td><td><p>23-24</p></td><td><p>24-25</p></td><td><p>22-23</p></td><td><p>23-24</p></td><td><p>24-25</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Birmingham Commonwealth Games</p></td><td><p>396.4</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Natural History Museum Harwell (Unlocked)</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>17.1</p></td><td><p>34.4</p></td><td><p>74.1</p></td><td><p>Total funding for the programme agreed at SR21 is £182m.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>4th National Lottery Licence Competition</p></td><td><p>22.7</p></td><td><p>22.8</p></td><td><p>10.1</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>0.0</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>Does not include expected costs following legal challenge. Funding not scored at the Spending Review as costs relating to the 4th Licence are funded from the National Lottery Distribution Fund.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Local Full Fibre Networks</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Programme closed in 2022 and therefore there is no funding in this Spending Review period.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Shared Rural Network</p></td><td><p>3.7</p></td><td><p>6.1</p></td><td><p>8.4</p></td><td><p>18.3</p></td><td><p>56.3</p></td><td><p>87.1</p></td><td><p>Total funding announced for the programme is £1bn, made up of £500m Government funding matched by the private sector.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>UNBOXED: Creativity in the UK</p></td><td><p>58.0</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Blythe House</p></td><td><p>16.0</p></td><td><p>2.7</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>10.0</p></td><td><p>4.0</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Project Gigabit</p></td><td><p>39.1</p></td><td><p>40.6</p></td><td><p>41.3</p></td><td><p>157.3</p></td><td><p>381.7</p></td><td><p>437.8</p></td><td><p>Total funding for the programme agreed at SR21 is £5bn.</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>All figures relate to funding profiles, actual expenditure may vary and will be reported through the Department’s Annual Report and Accounts. Funding and expenditure profiles beyond 24-25 will be subject to the next Spending Review. The figures included are as agreed at Spending Review 2021.</p> answering member constituency Hornchurch and Upminster answering member printed Julia Lopez question first answered 24/10/2022 14:13:34 answering member 4647 label Biography information for Julia Lopez
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

1524442

registered interest
date	19/10/2022
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	National Heritage Memorial Fund: Stonehenge
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what were the terms of the National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF) grant of £800,000 to the National Trust for the acquisition of over 170 hectares of land at Stonehenge, including the land known as Bow Tie Field.
tabling member printed	Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb
uin	HL2728
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/11/2022 answer text <p>The National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF) has been awarding grants to safeguard the UK’s most important heritage since 1980. As a fund of last resort, NHMF has helped save thousands of the country’s most-loved treasures from being lost forever.</p><p>The grant of £800,000 to the National Trust for the acquisition of land at Stonehenge, including the land known as Bow Tie Field, was a time-limited opportunity to secure 168 hectares of land containing 61 archaeological sites, including a substantial part of the Stonehenge Avenue, all under extreme risk of loss due to ploughing. Expert advice to NHMF reflected that if the purchase did not go ahead Scheduled Monuments on the site would be lost completely within 10 years.</p><p>The acquisition by the National Trust will enable the restoration of chalk grassland, a priority lowland habitat, achieving significant biodiversity and nature conservation benefits. It will also enable permissive open access for the first time to this part of the Stonehenge landscape.</p><p>The £800,000 grant was awarded to the National Trust using the National Heritage Memorial Fund's standard terms of grant as set out on the <a href="https://www.nhmf.org.uk/sites/default/files/NHMF%20Receiving%20A%20Grant.pdf" target="_blank">NHMF's website</a>.</p> answering member printed Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay question first answered 02/11/2022 16:04:58 answering member 4728 label Biography information for Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay
tabling member	4297 label Biography information for Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb

1524453

registered interest
date	19/10/2022
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	Internet: Children
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government whether it is still their policy that children’s safety remains the priority of the Online Safety Bill.
tabling member printed	Lord Pendry
uin	HL2739
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/11/2022 answer text <p>The strongest protections in the Online Safety Bill are to keep children safe online. To achieve this, the Bill will require all companies that are in scope to take robust steps to protect children from illegal content and activity on their services. In addition, services which are likely to be accessed by children will be required to provide safety measures for child users to protect them from inappropriate and harmful content or activity, such as pornography and bullying. If they fail to do so, they will be subject to tough enforcement action by the regulator, Ofcom.</p> answering member printed Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay question first answered 02/11/2022 15:33:21 answering member 4728 label Biography information for Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay
tabling member	457 label Biography information for Lord Pendry

1523347

registered interest
date	18/10/2022
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	Exercise: 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, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of the finding in the 2022 Nuffield Health Healthier Nation Index that almost half of the female population have done no vigorous exercise in the past 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	65905
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2022 answer text <p>I am absolutely committed to supporting women's sport at every opportunity including pushing for greater participation. I recognise the impact that the pandemic has had on women’s sport. Sport England’s latest Active Lives data, published in April this year, shows that men (63%) are still more likely to be active than women (60%).</p><p>There are some fantastic initiatives that exist to encourage women to take up sport and physical activity, for example Sport England’s This Girl Can campaign, which has already inspired millions of women and girls to get active regardless of shape, size and ability. This Girl Can has also been working with ukactive and the Chartered Institute for the Management of Sport and Physical Activity (CIMSPA) to provide resources and training to help leisure and fitness facilities ensure their spaces are safe and inclusive for all women.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 25/10/2022 09:08:32 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

1523355

registered interest
date	18/10/2022
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	TikTok: 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 discussions she has had with the Information Commissioner's Office on the reported breach of data protection law by Tiktok in respect of the processing the data of children; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	65777
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2022 answer text <p>The ICO is an independent regulator and we cannot comment on ongoing enforcement action. The Information Commissioner is accountable to Parliament in how it exercises its functions.</p><p>The Secretary of State will meet with the Information Commissioner in the coming months.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hornchurch and Upminster answering member printed Julia Lopez question first answered 24/10/2022 16:39:00 answering member 4647 label Biography information for Julia Lopez
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1523393

registered interest
date	18/10/2022
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	Television Licences: Non-payment
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 were convicted for not paying their TV license under the provisions of the Wireless Telegraphy Act 1949 since 1992.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	65608
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2022 answer text <p>The requirement to hold, and pay for, a TV Licence is set out in the Communications Act 2003 and the Communications (Television Licensing) Regulations 2004.</p><p>Parliament approved the BBC assuming the role of the TV Licensing Authority in 1991, and under the Communications Act 2003, the BBC is authorised to collect and enforce the Licence Fee by law on the government's behalf.</p><p>The TV licence fee was administered under the Wireless Telegraphy Act 1949 until the passage of the 2003 Act.</p><p>The Ministry of Justice currently publishes the number of prosecutions, convictions and sentencing outcomes for the non-payment of TV licence fees annually as part of their criminal justice statistics quarterly publications, which can be viewed here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/criminal-justice-statistics-quarterly" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/criminal-justice-statistics-quarterly</a></p><p>Figures for each year since 2005 up to 2021 are available in the Outcomes by Offence data tool, and can be found in the following tables:</p><p>2017-2021: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1076459/outcomes-by-offence-tool-2021-v2.xlsx" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1076459/outcomes-by-offence-tool-2021-v2.xlsx<br /></a>2016: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1063880/outcomes-by-offence-2020-revised.xlsx" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1063880/outcomes-by-offence-2020-revised.xlsx<br /></a>2005-2015: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/524326/cjs-outcomes-by-offence.xlsx" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/524326/cjs-outcomes-by-offence.xlsx</a></p><p>To view the relevant figures in these tables, select ‘191A Television licence evasion’ in the Offence filter.</p><p>The number of people convicted for TV licence evasion in the years between 1992 and 2004 can be found in the attached tables. Table 1 sets out the number of convictions for television licence evasion in this period under the Communications Act 2003. Table 2 sets out convictions for offences against the Wireless Telegraphy Acts, 1949 to 1967 in the same period. While television licence evasion was an offence under the Wireless Telegraphy Act 1949, the figures in Table 2 may include other offences under the specified Acts.</p> answering member constituency Hornchurch and Upminster answering member printed Julia Lopez question first answered 24/10/2022 16:37:09 question first ministerially corrected 25/10/2022 16:09:44 answering member 4647 label Biography information for Julia Lopez attachment 1 file name PQ 65608 table final.pdf title Table outlining information sources previous answer version 26685 answering member constituency Hornchurch and Upminster answering member printed Julia Lopez answering member 4647 label Biography information for Julia Lopez
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

1523453

registered interest
date	18/10/2022
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	School Games: 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, whether she plans to fund the School Games scheme after 31 August 2023.
tabling member constituency	Chesterfield
tabling member printed	Mr Toby Perkins
uin	65697
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2022 answer text <p>Sport and physical activity provide important physical and mental health benefits and also help to develop vital social connections and leadership skills that will set young people up for life.</p><p>The Government is committed to ensuring that children and young people can be physically active and to increase the chances for children to take part in competitive sport. The School Games form a key part of this.</p><p>In the academic year 2018/2019, 2.4 million opportunities were provided across inter- and intra-school level through the School Games across the country.</p><p>The Government confirmed that the School Games Organisers will continue for the 2022/23 academic year and is considering the position beyond that point.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew grouped question UIN 65698 question first answered 21/10/2022 12:37:51 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	3952 label Biography information for Mr Toby Perkins

1523455

registered interest
date	18/10/2022
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	School Games: 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, when her Department will announce its policy on the future of School Games funding.
tabling member constituency	Chesterfield
tabling member printed	Mr Toby Perkins
uin	65698
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2022 answer text <p>Sport and physical activity provide important physical and mental health benefits and also help to develop vital social connections and leadership skills that will set young people up for life.</p><p>The Government is committed to ensuring that children and young people can be physically active and to increase the chances for children to take part in competitive sport. The School Games form a key part of this.</p><p>In the academic year 2018/2019, 2.4 million opportunities were provided across inter- and intra-school level through the School Games across the country.</p><p>The Government confirmed that the School Games Organisers will continue for the 2022/23 academic year and is considering the position beyond that point.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew grouped question UIN 65697 question first answered 21/10/2022 12:37:51 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	3952 label Biography information for Mr Toby Perkins

1523534

registered interest
date	18/10/2022
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	Tax Allowances
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 merits of introducing measures to ensure that large charities publish key performance indicators if they are to continue receiving tax relief.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	65648
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2022 answer text <p>All registered charities must prepare annual accounts and a trustees’ annual report. These provide a comprehensive review of the activities of the charity, and the charity’s financial position. The purpose is to ensure the charity is transparent and accountable for its activities and financial management. The annual accounts and reports of registered charities with an annual income over £25,000 are publicly available via the register of charities on GOV.UK.</p><p>Charities can be eligible for certain tax exemptions and reliefs if they are established for charitable purposes only and recognised by HMRC.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 26/10/2022 10:51:30 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell