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1505577

registered interest
date	06/09/2022
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	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, whether her Department has made an assessment of the (a) safety and (b) security of Tik Tok’s ability to track typed text inputs, clicked links, keystrokes, and screen taps.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	48331
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/09/2022 answer text <p>The UK has strong safeguards and enforcement regimes to ensure that data is collected and handled responsibly and securely. Companies registered in the UK are subject to our legal framework and regulatory jurisdiction.</p><p>Wherever they are in the world, organisations that process the personal data of individuals in the UK for the purposes of providing goods and services or monitoring behaviour must comply with the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA18). Organisations which fail to comply may be investigated by the Information Commissioner’s Office and where appropriate subject to enforcement action, including fines.</p><p>The Government is improving the privacy and security of all apps, including through an upcoming Code of Practice which sets baseline security and privacy requirements for app developers and app store operators.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Folkestone and Hythe answering member printed Damian Collins question first answered 21/09/2022 08:23:42 answering member 3986 label Biography information for Damian Collins
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1504761

registered interest
date	05/09/2022
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	Unboxed
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 has taken to assess the extent to which the Unboxed Festival met the objectives set for it.
tabling member constituency	Worsley and Eccles South
tabling member printed	Barbara Keeley
uin	47495
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/09/2022 answer text <p>The UNBOXED programme aims to bring people together and showcase our creativity and innovation to the world through 10 major commissions across the UK. There are 8 commissions that are live or about to go live, and the live events programme will conclude at the end of October. The UNBOXED delivery company, an arm’s length body of DCMS, continues to measure the programme’s progress and success, including through a range of key performance indicators.</p><p>There is an independent evaluation of the programme underway. This will consider areas such as: job creation; training, development and volunteering opportunities offered; the number of people who will experience UNBOXED in person and online; and the number of participants in the learning and engagement programmes delivered by the creative teams across the country. The evaluation will be published in early 2023.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 20/09/2022 07:37:23 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	1588 label Biography information for Barbara Keeley

1504764

registered interest
date	05/09/2022
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	Unboxed
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 took to ensure the Unboxed festival delivered value for money.
tabling member constituency	Worsley and Eccles South
tabling member printed	Barbara Keeley
uin	47496
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/09/2022 answer text <p>The UNBOXED programme is still running. The live events programme will conclude at the end of October. A departmental <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1097952/Unboxed_Accounting_Officer_Assessment_Letter.pdf" target="_blank">Accounting Officer Assessment</a> for the UNBOXED programme was published on 12 August. It stated that our pre-delivery assessment of the costs and benefits for UNBOXED showed the programme would be value for money, even where some expected benefits are not monetisable. DCMS has kept the programme under review to ensure that it remains value for money.</p><p>There is also an independent evaluation of the programme underway. This will consider areas such as job creation; training, development and volunteering opportunities offered; the number of people who experience UNBOXED in person and online; and the number of participants in the learning and engagement programmes delivered by the creative teams across the country. It will be published in early 2023.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 20/09/2022 07:38:25 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	1588 label Biography information for Barbara Keeley

1504928

registered interest
date	05/09/2022
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	Social Media: Disinformation
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 Government teams tackling disinformation have reported content or user accounts to social media providers in the past 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Pontypridd
tabling member printed	Alex Davies-Jones
uin	47705
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/09/2022 answer text <p>The Government takes the issue of disinformation very seriously. The Counter Disinformation Unit team, based in DCMS, works to understand the scope, scale and reach of disinformation and works with a range of partners, including social media platforms, to tackle it.</p><p>The primary purpose of the team is not to spot every instance of disinformation across all social media platforms, but rather to understand overall trends and coordinated attempts to artificially manipulate the information environment. When the Unit does identify particular pieces of harmful content which may violate platforms’ terms of service these are referred to the relevant platform for consideration, who in turn decide what action to take.</p><p>As an operational matter it is not appropriate for the government to publicly provide details of content reported to platforms as doing so would give malign actors insight into our capabilities.</p> answering member constituency Folkestone and Hythe answering member printed Damian Collins grouped question UIN 47706 question first answered 20/09/2022 08:57:01 answering member 3986 label Biography information for Damian Collins
tabling member	4849 label Biography information for Alex Davies-Jones

1504929

registered interest
date	05/09/2022
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	Social Media: Disinformation
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 reports about content or user accounts made to social media providers by Government units established to tackle disinformation resulted in action being taken by the social media providers in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Pontypridd
tabling member printed	Alex Davies-Jones
uin	47706
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/09/2022 answer text <p>The Government takes the issue of disinformation very seriously. The Counter Disinformation Unit team, based in DCMS, works to understand the scope, scale and reach of disinformation and works with a range of partners, including social media platforms, to tackle it.</p><p>The primary purpose of the team is not to spot every instance of disinformation across all social media platforms, but rather to understand overall trends and coordinated attempts to artificially manipulate the information environment. When the Unit does identify particular pieces of harmful content which may violate platforms’ terms of service these are referred to the relevant platform for consideration, who in turn decide what action to take.</p><p>As an operational matter it is not appropriate for the government to publicly provide details of content reported to platforms as doing so would give malign actors insight into our capabilities.</p> answering member constituency Folkestone and Hythe answering member printed Damian Collins grouped question UIN 47705 question first answered 20/09/2022 08:57:01 answering member 3986 label Biography information for Damian Collins
tabling member	4849 label Biography information for Alex Davies-Jones

1505092

registered interest
date	05/09/2022
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	Museums and Galleries
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 providing capital funding to support the establishment of local art galleries including in Tamworth.
tabling member constituency	Tamworth
tabling member printed	Christopher Pincher
uin	47516
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/09/2022 answer text <p>The Government’s position towards the creation of new museums, as set out in the action plan following The Mendoza Review: an independent review of museums in England, is that public funding should only support the creation of new museums in areas and communities with a demonstrable need for them. Instead we have focused on investment in existing museums and galleries through capital programmes such as the DCMS / Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund and the Museum Estate and Development Fund, and our direct sponsorship of fifteen museum arm’s length bodies (encompassing 48 museum sites).</p><p>Arts Council England is our arm’s-length body providing wider support and funding for museums and galleries, and its Museum Development services can provide guidance to organisations on how to open a new museum. They can help develop thinking on how the proposed museum fits within the ecology of arts, culture and heritage in the local area, including determining the scale and interest of the potential audience, and advise on potential avenues for capital funding.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 20/09/2022 07:39:07 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher

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

1503410

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	Cultural Development 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, if she will provide details on the fourth round of the Cultural Development Fund; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	45091
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2022 answer text <p>The fourth round of the Cultural Development Fund (CDF) is expected to launch in Spring 2024. As per the <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/cultural-venues-to-receive-128-million-to-improve-access-to-arts-and-culture" target="_blank">announcement</a> in May 2022, CDF rounds 3 and 4 will see up to £49.4m of further capital investment in innovative cultural and creative projects outside London over the Spending Review period 2022/23 - 2024/25.</p><p>CDF round 3 was launched in May 2022. Building on the success of the previous two rounds, this third round of funding will level up through cultural investment, increase access to creativity and culture, and support the visitor and wider local economies in places all over England.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 07/09/2022 13:28:00 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

1503415

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	Independent Press Standards Organisation
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 data her Department holds on (a) the number of fines imposed and (b) how many standards investigations have been launched by IPSO since 2014.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	45118
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/09/2022 answer text <p>Since the report of the Leveson Inquiry was published in 2012, we have seen a fundamental reform of the self-regulatory landscape for the press, including the establishment of two new regulators, Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO) and The Independent Monitor for the Press (IMPRESS). The majority of traditional publishers—including 95% of national newspapers by circulation—are members of IPSO. A small number of publishers have joined IMPRESS.</p><p>These regulators enforce codes of conduct which provide guidelines on a range of areas, including discrimination, accuracy, privacy, and harassment. If they find that a newspaper has broken the code of conduct, they can order corrections.</p><p>The Government is committed to independent self-regulation of the press, and does not intervene in or oversee the work of IPSO.</p> answering member constituency Hornchurch and Upminster answering member printed Julia Lopez question first answered 20/09/2022 08:45:32 answering member 4647 label Biography information for Julia Lopez
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

1503417

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	Press: 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, if she will make an assessment of current trends in the levels of press (a) intrusion and (b) harassment of grieving families in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	45087
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/09/2022 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. 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 20/09/2022 08:44:06 answering member 4647 label Biography information for Julia Lopez
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel