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1105259

registered interest
date	26/03/2019
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 many people working on the broadband delivery programme are (a) contingent labour, (b) supplier resource and (c) civil servants.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	237002
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/04/2019 answer text <p>We do not hold specific data as to how many people are currently working on delivering broadband across the areas as stated in the question. Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) also works with several other Government departments on delivering broadband including HM Treasury, Department of Education, Department for Health and Social Care, Department for Transport, DEFRA and BEIS plus arms length bodies such as Ofcom.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James grouped question UIN 237003 question first answered 03/04/2019 14:01:21 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1105272

registered interest
date	26/03/2019
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	Radio Frequencies
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 working on the 700 MHz Clearance Programme are (a) contingent labour, (b) supplier resource and (c) civil servants.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	237003
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/04/2019 answer text <p>We do not hold specific data as to how many people are currently working on delivering broadband across the areas as stated in the question. Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) also works with several other Government departments on delivering broadband including HM Treasury, Department of Education, Department for Health and Social Care, Department for Transport, DEFRA and BEIS plus arms length bodies such as Ofcom.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James grouped question UIN 237002 question first answered 03/04/2019 14:01:21 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1105309

registered interest
date	26/03/2019
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	Nuisance Calls
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 the Government has made an assessment of the effect on levels of nuisance calls of companies requiring consumers to provide their phone numbers when purchasing products or signing up for services.
tabling member constituency	Cheltenham
tabling member printed	Alex Chalk
uin	237188
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/04/2019 answer text <p>Companies who process personal data and use it to make marketing communications are regulated by the Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA) and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003 (PECR). Both of these are administered and enforced by the Information Commissioner (ICO). If a company collects phone numbers from customers, it must be clear and transparent about how personal data will be handled, and ensure that the data is processed in a way which individuals would expect. Personal data must not be shared with third parties without an appropriate legal basis. Organisations that fail to comply may be subject to enforcement action by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). The ICO has the power to impose a monetary penalty on those who break the law.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has not made an official assessment of the effect on levels of nuisance calls of companies requiring consumers to provide their phone numbers when purchasing products or signing up for services.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 02/04/2019 14:31:51 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk

1105357

registered interest
date	26/03/2019
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	Claudia Jones and George Padmore
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon on 11 March (HL13972), whether any departments, other than the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, hold archive material on (1) George Padmore, and (2) Claudia Jones.
tabling member printed	Lord Boateng
uin	HL14820
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/04/2019 answer text <p>A search of the files held on The National Archives’ online catalogue, <em>Discovery</em>, has revealed no files relating to Claudia Vera Cumberbatch alias ‘Claudia Jones’ and three files relating to Malcolm Ivan Meredith Nurse alias ‘George Padmore’ These can be found here: <a href="https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C1255063" target="_blank">https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C1255063</a>; <a href="https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14206480" target="_blank">https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14206480</a>; <a href="https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C6097450" target="_blank">https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C6097450</a></p><p> </p><p>It should be noted however, that <em>Discovery</em> only searches catalogue descriptions, and does not search the contents of the records in our repositories. This means that these individuals may appear within other records held at The National Archives, for example passenger lists, but this would not be picked up by a <em>Discovery</em> search if their names do not feature prominently enough to be included in the catalogue description provided by the department on transfer.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Ashton of Hyde question first answered 08/04/2019 14:11:39 answering member 4247 label Biography information for Lord Ashton of Hyde
tabling member	147 label Biography information for Lord Boateng

1105368

registered interest
date	26/03/2019
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 Organisations
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what support they are giving, and to whom, to strengthen youth organisations.
tabling member printed	Lord Roberts of Llandudno
uin	HL14831
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/04/2019 answer text <p>Local authorities are primarily responsible for allocating public funding to youth organisations in their area.</p><p>Government is committed to strengthening and supporting youth organisations including, but not limited to:</p><ul><li>The Office for Civil Society has allocated over £863m between 2014/15 and 2018/19 to youth programmes - with £195m of that allocated for 2018/19;</li><li>A new £200m Youth Endowment Fund to be delivered over 10 years to support interventions with children and young people at risk of involvement in crime and violence; and</li><li>Supporting the creation of the Youth Futures Foundation - a new, independent organisation created with initial funding of £90m from dormant bank accounts,which will support young people furthest away from the labour market using data from the Race Disparity Audit.</li></ul> answering member printed Lord Ashton of Hyde question first answered 08/04/2019 14:12:39 answering member 4247 label Biography information for Lord Ashton of Hyde
tabling member	3691 label Biography information for Lord Roberts of Llandudno

1105373

registered interest
date	26/03/2019
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	Football: Racial Discrimination
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to work with relevant authorities, such as FIFA, and UEFA, to strengthen sanctions against racist behaviour in international football.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL14836
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/04/2019 answer text <p>The racist abuse England players were subjected to in Montenegro was completely unacceptable and we supported the Football Association's call for UEFA to take strong and swift action. The FA represents English football's interests at the international level of the sport.</p><p> </p><p>Whilst progress has been made here and abroad in tackling discrimination in football over the years, more needs to be done, and Government is continuing to work with the footballing authorities and other organisations to agree what action must be taken to stamp out all forms of discrimination at football events in this country.</p> answering member printed Lord Ashton of Hyde question first answered 08/04/2019 14:55:46 answering member 4247 label Biography information for Lord Ashton of Hyde
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

1104670

registered interest
date	25/03/2019
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	Copyright: Internet
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the forthcoming White Paper on the development of digital technology and the digital economy will include reserve powers to address economic harm on online platforms in order to protect the interests of the UK’s creative industries against piracy and the spread of illegal content.
tabling member printed	Lord Smith of Finsbury
uin	HL14795
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/04/2019 answer text <p>Development of digital technology and the digital economy is not specifically in scope of the Online Harms White Paper.</p><p>As part of the Digital Charter, the Government's overarching strategy to make sure the internet works for everyone - for citizens, businesses and society as a whole - we have already introduced a number of measures to protect the interests of the UK's Creative Industries, including facilitating a Code of Practice signed by search engines and copyright owners. This has reduced the prominence of websites hosting illegal copyright infringing content in natural search results.</p> answering member printed Lord Ashton of Hyde question first answered 08/04/2019 14:03:50 answering member 4247 label Biography information for Lord Ashton of Hyde
tabling member	186 label Biography information for Lord Smith of Finsbury

1104671

registered interest
date	25/03/2019
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	Radio: Local Broadcasting
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the regulations issued by Ofcom in 2018 that allowed radio station owners to reduce the minimum amount of local programming on local radio stations during daytime hours from seven to three hours per day.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL14796
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/04/2019 answer text <p>We have made no such assessment. These are matters for Ofcom, the independent regulator.</p> answering member printed Lord Ashton of Hyde grouped question UIN HL14797 question first answered 04/04/2019 11:32:42 answering member 4247 label Biography information for Lord Ashton of Hyde
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

1104672

registered interest
date	25/03/2019
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	Radio: Local Broadcasting
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact on local communities of the decision by Ofcom to remove the requirement on local radio stations to produce their own breakfast show.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL14797
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/04/2019 answer text <p>We have made no such assessment. These are matters for Ofcom, the independent regulator.</p> answering member printed Lord Ashton of Hyde grouped question UIN HL14796 question first answered 04/04/2019 11:32:42 answering member 4247 label Biography information for Lord Ashton of Hyde
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

1104697

registered interest
date	25/03/2019
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	Sports Business Council
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 outcomes were from the meetings of the Sports Business Council held between June 2017 and April 2018; and when the council next plans to meet.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	236370
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/04/2019 answer text <p>The Sport Business Council (SBC) has explored a number of priority areas for the sector, such as intellectual property, event staging, sector skills, and local partnerships, and has established the importance of engaging with the sports economy I intend to consider the work to date of the SBC, and continue engagement with the business of sport in the months ahead.</p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 01/04/2019 09:15:27 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon