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997136

registered interest
date	29/10/2018
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: Contracts
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 he will hold discussions with the National Audit Office on the potential merits on that Office undertaking a review of commissioning contracts within the BBC that are of a value of less than £1million.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	184894
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2018 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">The Electronic Communications Code (ECC) was recently reformed as part of the Digital Economy Act 2017. These reforms were intended to reduce the cost of providing communications infrastructure and make it easier for operators to deploy such infrastructure. The new Code came into force on 28 December 2017.</del></p><p> </p><p><del class="ministerial">The Regulatory Impact Assessment published by Government estimated that the ECC reforms could lead to a reduction in average market rents (as compared to rates agreed before reforms to the ECC). However, the eventual impact is difficult to predict during this period of transition in which operators and site providers adapt to the new legislation.</del></p><p> </p><p><del class="ministerial">During this period, where the market is adjusting and settling, good working relationships between site providers and code operators are critical, and we encourage all parties to continue their efforts to reach mutually acceptable agreements. A joint statement released in August reaffirmed the commitment made by DCMS, industry, CLA and RICS to work collaboratively to implement the ECC.</del></p><p> </p><p><del class="ministerial">My Department will continue to work with stakeholders, including representatives from industry, landowners, representative bodies and Ofcom, to inform the implementation of the new Code. We will monitor developments carefully and, as outlined in the Future Telecoms Infrastructure Review, (<a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/732496/Future_Telecoms_Infrastructure_Review.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/732496/Future_Telecoms_Infrastructure_Review.pdf</a>) will consider a formal review of the impact of the ECC reforms.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The Comptroller and Auditor General is the BBC's independent auditor with powers to conduct value for money studies related to the economy, efficiency and effectiveness of the BBC. Decisions in relation to reviewing BBC activity are therefore a matter for the National Audit Office, not government. </ins></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 01/11/2018 18:03:18 question first ministerially corrected 05/11/2018 11:54:25 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James previous answer version 82643 answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

995551

registered interest
date	26/10/2018
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	Cyber Skills Immediate Impact 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, pursuant to the Answer of 25 October 2018 to Question 182225 on Cybercrime, how many people have benefited from training or employment through the cyber security immediate impact fund; and what the total cost to the public purse of that fund to date is.
tabling member constituency	Leigh
tabling member printed	Jo Platt
uin	184409
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/10/2018 answer text <p>As of end of October 2018, approximately 170 individuals were either participating or had been identified to take part in the seven initiatives supported through the Cyber Skills Immediate Impact Fund (CSIIF) pilot. These initiatives are ongoing and have not yet concluded. The full level of participation and an assessment of employment outcomes will be considered as part of an independent evaluation in 2019.</p><p> </p><p>It is a principle of funding through the National Cyber Security Programme that for national security reasons we are unable to detail individual NCSP funding by department or initiative</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 31/10/2018 17:12:19 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

994678

registered interest
date	25/10/2018
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	Cybersecurity: Telecommunications
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 proportion of UK telecoms companies hold a CyberEssentials certicate.
tabling member constituency	Leigh
tabling member printed	Jo Platt
uin	183997
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2018 answer text <p>The Government’s National Cyber Security Strategy (2016-2021) sets out ambitious policies to protect the UK in cyberspace, backed with £1.9 billion investment.</p><p> </p><p>CyberEssentials provides organisations with protection against a wide variety of the most common cyber attacks. The scheme is managed by the National Cyber Security Centre. It is aimed at enterprise IT and not operations technologies such as telecoms systems. There are alternative schemes that cover the operational side of telecoms companies such as TBEST and Commodity Assured Service for Telecoms (CAS(T)).</p><p> </p><p>Telecommunications companies identified as Operators of Essential Services are required to implement cyber security improvements as a result of the Network Information Systems Directive (NIS Directive). This NIS Directive was transposed into UK domestic legislation in May 2018. The measures that Operators of Essential Services need to implement to comply with the NIS Regulations go beyond the requirements of CyberEssentials.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 30/10/2018 17:27:41 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

994680

registered interest
date	25/10/2018
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	Cybersecurity: Business
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 adequacy of the number of companies handling large amounts of citizens data which hold a CyberEssentials certificate.
tabling member constituency	Leigh
tabling member printed	Jo Platt
uin	183998
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2018 answer text <p>Cyber Essentials provides organisations with protection against a wide variety of the most common cyber attacks. The National Cyber Security Centre does not hold the data on the number of large companies handling citizens data that hold a certificate.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 30/10/2018 17:30:59 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

994681

registered interest
date	25/10/2018
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	Big Lottery 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, pursuant to the Answer of 22 October 2018 to Question 180106, what the size is of the grant for each recipient named.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	183875
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2018 answer text <p>The National Lottery raises over £1.6 Billion a year for good cause projects across the UK. 40% of this funding is distributed for Big Lottery Fund.</p><p>The Big Lottery Fund is the largest funder of community activity in the UK. It funds both large and small charities across every community in the UK.Every year, around 90% of its awards to community projects are for £10,000 or less.</p><p>On the attached sheet are the top 30 recipients of the largest grants given by the Big Lottery Fund in each of the last 10 years, and the total size of the grant for each recipient.</p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 30/10/2018 17:10:48 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch attachment 1 file name 10 Year Top 30 - FY Totals 261018 (1).xlsx title The top 30 recipients of the largest grants
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

993988

registered interest
date	24/10/2018
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	Arts: Coventry
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 he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on future funding to support the arts in Coventry.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	183237
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2018 answer text <p>My Department announced, in December last year, that Coventry will be the UK City of Culture 2021. This will be a great year of arts and cultural events and will put the city firmly on the map as a cultural centre.</p><p> </p><p>Arts Council England (ACE) will contin 34ue to support the City through its funding programmes, and recently announced £5 million in Lottery funding to support Coventry 2021. In addition, Coventry and Warwickshire now have 12 ACE National Portfolio Organisations, of which six are new entrants. Over the four year funding period, 2018-2022, ACE expect to deliver approximately £73 million of funding to support these organisations.</p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis question first answered 29/10/2018 10:48:11 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

993549

registered interest
date	23/10/2018
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	Gift Aid
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 he has made of the implications for his policies of the economic analysis published by Development Economics that over the course of a decade £30 million of taxpayers' Gift Aid donations could be taken in fees by private sector fundraising platforms; and if he will take steps to ensure that Gift Aid donations reach the causes, charities and beneficiaries they are intended for.
tabling member constituency	Bermondsey and Old Southwark
tabling member printed	Neil Coyle
uin	182794
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2018 answer text <p>Digital fundraising platforms raise significant funds for charitable causes and therefore must ensure high standards of transparency to allow donors to make informed decisions.</p><p> </p><p>The Fundraising Regulator has updated the Code of Fundraising Practice to include requirements for these platforms, including new transparency requirements about charges. This helps donors ensure that as much money as possible, including Gift Aid, goes to the intended charities and beneficiaries, which is important.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, one of the largest digital fundraising platforms, Just Giving, has recently announced they will no longer charge fees on donations made to campaigns for major incidents, which will also ensure more money, including Gift Aid, is passed to charities</p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 29/10/2018 12:04:08 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
tabling member	4368 label Biography information for Neil Coyle

992673

registered interest
date	22/10/2018
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	Cyber Skills Immediate Impact 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, how many successful applications to cyber skills immediate impact fund there have been; and whether his Department has made an assessment of the effectiveness of that fund.
tabling member constituency	Leigh
tabling member printed	Jo Platt
uin	182225
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2018 answer text <p>The Cyber Skills Immediate Impact Fund (CSIIF) acts as an incentive for a broader range of industry designed and led activity to deliver an immediate boost to numbers and diversity in the UK’s cyber security workforce. We identified seven initiatives to support through the initial, pilot phase of the Fund.</p><p> </p><p>Given the level of market interest, and the quality of bids initially received, we recently opened a further bidding round. In parallel, we are commissioning an independent evaluation of the pilot initiatives and the Fund’s overall effectiveness. This will commence in the new year when the pilot initiatives near conclusion and its results will be published.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 25/10/2018 16:22:15 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

992807

registered interest
date	22/10/2018
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	Civil Society
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 times he has met representatives of the civil society sector since his appointment as Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport in July 2018.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
uin	182292
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2018 answer text <p>We are committed to working closely with the civil society sector. Since his appointment in July 2018, the Secretary of State for DCMS has met with several civil society representatives. During a recent visit to Salisbury, he met with volunteers from Alabaré, a charity which supports homeless, vulnerable and marginalised people, and discussing how the government can help to remove barriers to volunteering.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Other meetings include visiting the National Citizen Service programmes and meeting leaders from the Charity Commission. We look forward to engaging further with civil society organisations so that we can work together to deliver the Civil Society Strategy and achieve the government's vision of building a country that works for everyone.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 29/10/2018 12:00:49 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

991215

registered interest
date	19/10/2018
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	Cybersecurity
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 (a) organisations and (b) individuals have signed up to the cyber security information sharing partnership.
tabling member constituency	Leigh
tabling member printed	Jo Platt
uin	181641
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2018 answer text <p>The Cyber Security Information Sharing Partnership (CiSP) is a joint industry and government initiative set up to exchange cyber threat information in real time, in a confidential and dynamic environment. The benefits of CiSP include giving members a secure environment to engage with industry and government counterparts, supplying early warning of cyber threats, and helping members learn from their experiences and successes of other users. In October 2018 the total number of organisations registered on CiSP is over 6500 and the number of individual users registered is over 11,600.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 24/10/2018 15:15:55 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt