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1238214

registered interest
date	28/09/2020
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: Public Appointments
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 role the Commissioner of Public Appointments will play in the process of selecting a new Chairman of the BBC.
tabling member constituency	City of Chester
tabling member printed	Christian Matheson
uin	96088
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/10/2020 answer text <p>The Commissioner for Public Appointments is the independent regulator of public appointments. The Commissioner’s statutory functions are set out in the Public Appointments Order in Council 2016. The Commissioner’s primary role is to provide independent assurance that public appointments are made in accordance with the Principles of Public Appointments and the Governance Code on Public Appointments.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Maldon answering member printed Mr John Whittingdale question first answered 01/10/2020 10:33:38 answering member 39 label Biography information for Sir John Whittingdale
tabling member	4408 label Biography information for Christian Matheson

1238215

registered interest
date	28/09/2020
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: Public Appointments
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 the process will commence to appoint a new a Chairman of the BBC; and whether that process will be an open competition.
tabling member constituency	City of Chester
tabling member printed	Christian Matheson
uin	96089
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/10/2020 answer text <p>The process to appoint a new Chairman of the BBC will be a fair and open competition, run in accordance with the Governance Code on Public Appointments. We expect to launch the process shortly.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Maldon answering member printed Mr John Whittingdale question first answered 01/10/2020 10:34:41 answering member 39 label Biography information for Sir John Whittingdale
tabling member	4408 label Biography information for Christian Matheson

1238216

registered interest
date	28/09/2020
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: Public Appointments
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 publish the criteria by which he is seeking a candidate for the Chairmanship of the BBC.
tabling member constituency	City of Chester
tabling member printed	Christian Matheson
uin	96090
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/10/2020 answer text <p>Once the process opens to applications, the full role specification will be publicly available on the Cabinet Office’s Public Appointments website, where all roles are advertised.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Maldon answering member printed Mr John Whittingdale question first answered 01/10/2020 10:35:42 answering member 39 label Biography information for Sir John Whittingdale
tabling member	4408 label Biography information for Christian Matheson

1238391

registered interest
date	28/09/2020
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	Lord Moore of Etchingham
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 meetings (a) he or (b) he and the Prime Minister has had with Lord Charles Moore in 2020; and on what dates those meetings took place.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	96092
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/10/2020 answer text <p>Meetings with external organisations and individuals undertaken in a ministerial capacity are published on GOV.UK on a quarterly basis.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Maldon answering member printed Mr John Whittingdale question first answered 01/10/2020 10:29:29 answering member 39 label Biography information for Sir John Whittingdale
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

1237957

registered interest
date	25/09/2020
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	Bank Services
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 he is taking to ensure the transparency of the process by which funds are allocated through the Dormant Accounts Scheme.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	95598
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/10/2020 answer text <p>Funding unlocked through the Dormant Assets Scheme is distributed by The National Lottery Community Fund (TNLCF). Each nation in the UK directs TNLCF on how to distribute its allocation of the funding to social or environmental causes. In England, it is directed by the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and must be spent on causes related to youth, financial inclusion, or social investment. In Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, Ministers direct funding to various youth and environmental initiatives. For example, the Welsh government has spent over £2m on a mix of projects focussing on climate change and sustainability.</p><p>The Government will soon publish a response to the consultation on expanding the Dormant Assets Scheme to include a wider range of financial assets. This is a long term process, also involving discussion on how potential future dormant assets funding could be spent.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Maldon answering member printed Mr John Whittingdale grouped question UIN 95599 95600 question first answered 01/10/2020 10:27:07 answering member 39 label Biography information for Sir John Whittingdale
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

1237958

registered interest
date	25/09/2020
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	Bank Services
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 funds from the Dormant Account Scheme has been allocated to environmental causes in each year since that scheme’s creation.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	95599
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/10/2020 answer text <p>Funding unlocked through the Dormant Assets Scheme is distributed by The National Lottery Community Fund (TNLCF). Each nation in the UK directs TNLCF on how to distribute its allocation of the funding to social or environmental causes. In England, it is directed by the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and must be spent on causes related to youth, financial inclusion, or social investment. In Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, Ministers direct funding to various youth and environmental initiatives. For example, the Welsh government has spent over £2m on a mix of projects focussing on climate change and sustainability.</p><p>The Government will soon publish a response to the consultation on expanding the Dormant Assets Scheme to include a wider range of financial assets. This is a long term process, also involving discussion on how potential future dormant assets funding could be spent.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Maldon answering member printed Mr John Whittingdale grouped question UIN 95598 95600 question first answered 01/10/2020 10:27:07 answering member 39 label Biography information for Sir John Whittingdale
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

1237959

registered interest
date	25/09/2020
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	Bank Services
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 bring forward legislative proposals to increase the proportion of funds from the Dormant Account Scheme that are required to be allocated to environmental causes.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	95600
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/10/2020 answer text <p>Funding unlocked through the Dormant Assets Scheme is distributed by The National Lottery Community Fund (TNLCF). Each nation in the UK directs TNLCF on how to distribute its allocation of the funding to social or environmental causes. In England, it is directed by the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and must be spent on causes related to youth, financial inclusion, or social investment. In Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, Ministers direct funding to various youth and environmental initiatives. For example, the Welsh government has spent over £2m on a mix of projects focussing on climate change and sustainability.</p><p>The Government will soon publish a response to the consultation on expanding the Dormant Assets Scheme to include a wider range of financial assets. This is a long term process, also involving discussion on how potential future dormant assets funding could be spent.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Maldon answering member printed Mr John Whittingdale grouped question UIN 95598 95599 question first answered 01/10/2020 10:27:07 answering member 39 label Biography information for Sir John Whittingdale
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

1237596

registered interest
date	24/09/2020
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	Data Transmission
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 he is taking to ensure that UK-EU data transfer can be undertaken legally from 1 January 2021.
tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
tabling member printed	Sarah Olney
uin	95167
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/09/2020 answer text <p>The free flow of personal data between the EU and the UK is important to the UK economy and underpins our future trade and security cooperation.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>To continue the free flow of data from the EU to the UK, we are seeking adequacy decisions from the EU under both the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Law Enforcement Directive (LED), before the end of the transition period. This process is moving forward and talks between the UK and EU have been underway since 11 March. The EU’s adequacy assessment is separate from other UK-EU negotiations.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>To continue the free flow of data from the UK to the EU, we have legislated so that personal data for general processing can continue to flow freely, on a transitional basis, from the UK to the 30 EEA States and the EU Institutions after the end of the transition period. We have also ensured that personal data for law enforcement purposes can flow freely, on a transitional basis, to the 27 EU Member States to support cross-border cooperation in preventing crime.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>We will keep these arrangements under review and will, in any event, conduct adequacy reviews within four years of them coming into effect (i.e. by 1 January 2025), as required by our law.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Maldon answering member printed Mr John Whittingdale question first answered 29/09/2020 10:14:32 answering member 39 label Biography information for Sir John Whittingdale
tabling member	4591 label Biography information for Sarah Olney

1237113

registered interest
date	23/09/2020
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: Coronavirus
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 support volunteers in the third sector during the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	Coventry North East
tabling member printed	Colleen Fletcher
uin	94446
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/10/2020 answer text <p>Volunteers have been an incredible force for good during the COVID-19 crisis. The Government is taking steps to ensure that volunteers are supported during these unprecedented times by providing up-to-date public guidance to enable volunteers to safely and effectively respond to the crisis, and working closely with voluntary and community organisations to ensure volunteers are deployed where they are most needed.</p><p>DCMS has provided a £4.8million grant to the Voluntary and Community Sector Emergencies Partnership, to support its work to improve coordination in the voluntary sector, and match the country’s strong base of volunteers with demands. It has enabled initiatives such as Journey Makers: so far, over 600 Journey Maker volunteers have been deployed at 64 bus and rail stations nationwide to support people to safely use the public transport network.</p><p>The Government has also extended its support for the NHS Volunteer Responders programme, and is recruiting additional volunteers in areas where demand for services is high.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Maldon answering member printed Mr John Whittingdale question first answered 01/10/2020 13:56:31 answering member 39 label Biography information for Sir John Whittingdale
tabling member	4378 label Biography information for Colleen Fletcher

1236035

registered interest
date	21/09/2020
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	Pornography: Internet
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 ask the Information Commissioner's Office to investigate instances of pornographic websites using children's browsing history data to promote pornographic content to those users.
tabling member constituency	Congleton
tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
uin	92753
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/09/2020 answer text <p>Providers of online services which are likely to be accessed by children are required by UK data protection legislation to ensure that children’s data is processed fairly, lawfully and transparently. They should not be sharing data with third parties unless there are compelling reasons to do so, taking account of the best interests of the child.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued a code of practice on Age Appropriate Design, which offers guidance for organisations on complying with the legislation, including the privacy standards that should be adopted where they are offering online services to children. The code can be viewed on the ICO’s website at:</p><p><a href="https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protection/key-data-protection-themes/age-appropriate-design-a-code-of-practice-for-online-services/" target="_blank">https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protection/key-data-protection-themes/age-appropriate-design-a-code-of-practice-for-online-services/</a></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Online services that do not comply with the legislation, should be reported to the ICO which may, in turn, consider enforcement action.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Maldon answering member printed Mr John Whittingdale question first answered 29/09/2020 10:16:00 answering member 39 label Biography information for Sir John Whittingdale
tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce