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1125304

	registered interest
	date	08/05/2019
	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	Culture: 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 steps the Government is taking to (a) protect and (b) increase funding for arts and culture outside London.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	251910
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2019 answer text <p>We are committed to promoting the Arts and culture outside London, and continue to work closely with the Arts Council to ensure that the whole of the country has access to funding for arts and cultural programmes.</p><p> </p><p>Last year 70% of Arts Council's <ins class="ministerial">lottery</ins><del class="ministerial">total</del> funding was awarded outside London. Between 2018 and 2022 an additional £170 million of National Portfolio Organisation funding will be invested outside London.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, the recent Cultural Development Fund has seen £20 million of funding shared between five towns and cities outside of the capital, while programmes such as Creative People and Places and the City of Culture programme continue to focus outside of the capital.</p><p> </p><p>DCMS has also recently announced an additional £4 million of funding for the DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund. In 2019/20, 35 museums and galleries will benefit from this funding which aims to improve audience experience. Over 80% of regional museums outside London will receive money from this Fund.</p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis question first answered 13/05/2019 11:01:57 question first ministerially corrected 14/05/2019 10:50:06 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis previous answer version 117364 answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

1124226

	registered interest
	date	01/05/2019
	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	St George's Day
	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 estimate he has made of the contribution of St. George's Day to England's economy.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	249965
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2019 answer text <p>The Department has made no specific estimate of the economic contributions of the National days.</p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis grouped question UIN 249966 249967 249969 question first answered 13/05/2019 10:59:57 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1124227

	registered interest
	date	01/05/2019
	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	St Patrick's Day
	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 estimate he has made of the contribution of St. Patrick's Day to the economy of Northern Ireland.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	249966
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2019 answer text <p>The Department has made no specific estimate of the economic contributions of the National days.</p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis grouped question UIN 249965 249967 249969 question first answered 13/05/2019 10:59:57 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1124228

	registered interest
	date	01/05/2019
	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	St Andrew's Day
	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 estimate he has made of the contribution of St. Andrew's Day to Scotland's economy.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	249967
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2019 answer text <p>The Department has made no specific estimate of the economic contributions of the National days.</p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis grouped question UIN 249965 249966 249969 question first answered 13/05/2019 10:59:57 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1124230

	registered interest
	date	01/05/2019
	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	St David's Day
	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 estimate he has made of the contribution of St. David's Day to the Welsh economy.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	249969
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2019 answer text <p>The Department has made no specific estimate of the economic contributions of the National days.</p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis grouped question UIN 249965 249966 249967 question first answered 13/05/2019 10:59:57 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1124371

	registered interest
	date	01/05/2019
	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	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport: Secondment
	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 civil servants in his Department have been seconded to (a) the Department for Exiting the European Union and (b) the Department for International Trade in each of the last three years.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	249903
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2019 answer text <p>In the Civil Service, a ‘secondment’ is a transfer to an external organisation, whereas the movement of staff to another Government department is usually referred to as a loan. We do not hold information centrally on the host departments of all secondees/loans from our department. However, we do hold a record of some employees on loan for whom we had to retrieve salary costs over the last 3 years:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Department for Exiting the European Union</p></td><td><p>Department for International Trade</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019 (to present)</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 13/05/2019 11:47:32 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

1124941

	registered interest
	date	07/05/2019
	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	Internet: Security
	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 his Department is taking to ensure the security of age-verification check databases.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
	tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	251217
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2019 answer text <p>All providers of age verification (AV) services must comply with data protection laws. In addition, ahead of the introduction of mandatory age verification on online pornography sites, the regulator, the British Board for Film Classifcation, has created a voluntary certification scheme, the Age-verification Certificate (AVC), which will assess the data security standards of AV providers. Age verification solutions which offer these robust data protection conditions will be certified following an independent assessment and will carry the BBFC's new green 'AV' symbol. Details will also be published on the BBFC’s age-verification website, ageverificationregulator.com.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 13/05/2019 11:35:23 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly

1124943

	registered interest
	date	07/05/2019
	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: Environment 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 steps his Department is taking to reduce the environmental footprint of large sporting events.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
	tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	251219
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2019 answer text <p>The government, along with major event partners, is committed to embedding sustainability as a key pillar of the planning and delivery of major sporting events. We also welcome the innovation that the sector is driving such as the degradable seaweed pouches used at this year’s London Marathon instead of plastic water bottles.</p><p> </p><p>UK Sport is working alongside several events, providing support as they look into environmentally friendly delivery options. The upcoming Netball World Cup is currently undergoing an environmental review across all workstreams, with findings not only being used to make changes to the event, but also will be fed back into the newly formed sector working group, which alongside staff from UK Sport, consists of athletes, venues and NGB representatives.</p><p> </p><p>UK Sport is also conducting work to place a range of ethical policies at the heart of all events delivered with government support, with environmental policies and considerations sitting as a core element of that work.</p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 13/05/2019 14:58:18 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly

1125347

	registered interest
	date	08/05/2019
	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	Business: ICT
	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 his Department has taken to ensure that businesses have the required IT infrastructure in place to enable a paperless society.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
	tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	251968
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2019 answer text <p>The Future Telecoms Infrastructure Review (FTIR), published in July 2018, sets out the Government’s strategy for ensuring that 15 million premises are able to connect to full fibre by 2025, with a nationwide network established by 2033. Since the publication of the FITR, full fibre coverage is now available to 7% of UK premises, up from 4% around 12 months ago.</p><p> </p><p>The Better Broadband Voucher Scheme, open for applications until 31st December 2019, is available to those who are unable to obtain a connection speed above 2Mbps. The Scheme can support access to satellite broadband, or fixed 4G or wireless connections in some locations. The Gigabit Broadband Voucher Scheme, launched in March 2018 as part of Local Full Fibre Networks programme, enables small to medium sized businesses to claim a voucher worth up to £2,500, and residents to claim a voucher worth up to £500 as part of a group project.</p><p> </p><p>DCMS has convened the Digital Enterprise Delivery Group, part of the Digital Skills Partnership, to bring together a range of industry stakeholders to improve the digital capabilities of SMEs and charities.</p><p> </p><p>BEIS’s £9 million Business Basics programme, announced as part of the UK’s Industrial Strategy, is testing innovative ways of encouraging SMEs to take up technology (such as accountancy or CRM software), as well as business practices that can boost productivity. Be the Business, supported by up to £18.6m Government funding, is a business-led independent charity that is identifying practical steps to enable the adoption of technology and enable best-practice leadership and management techniques.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 13/05/2019 15:25:53 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly