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973173

registered interest
date	13/09/2018
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	Gaming Machines: Northern Ireland
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 discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on the lowering of stakes on fixed-odds betting terminals in Northern Ireland.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	174722
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2018 answer text <p>Gambling in Northern Ireland is a devolved matter and the regulatory change to sub-category B2 machines will cover Great Britain only.</p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 15/10/2018 11:53:52 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

931778

registered interest
date	27/06/2018
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	Sports: 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 funding is available for (a) rugby, (b) basketball and other sports clubs to help them attain international recognition and host international matches.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	158242
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2018 answer text <p>UK Sport, an Arm's Length Body of DCMS, works with National Governing Bodies (NGBs) and other partners to help them build strong and positive relationships with their respective International Federations (IFs) and other national and international sporting bodies.</p><p>To do this, investment is prioritised to support International Relations strategies for those sports that receive UK Sport World Class Programme funding and/or have an agreed Major Events hosting target. UK Sport also provides limited investment to those sports which fall just outside of its World Class Programme funding. These include fencing, badminton, goalball, weightlifting and wheelchair rugby.</p><p>The Government has recently confirmed a unique funding support package for British Basketball to help support GB athletes to continue to compete on the world stage in order to inspire communities to engage positively in sport activity. Routed through UK Sport, an investment of £195,000 will be provided to ensure GB athletes can compete at important World Cup qualifying games, which they are hosting in June and July. A further £305,000 has been ring-fenced to enable the GB men’s and women’s senior teams to fulfil further international competition commitments in 2018/19. However, this will only be released if British Basketball can demonstrate a sustainable financial plan to support its athletes going forward.</p><p>UK Sport has a Major Events programme that invests around £5m a year of national lottery funding to secure and stage international sports events including World Championships, European Championships and top level World Series events in the UK. UK Sport has not provided any Major Event funding to basketball or rugby union over the same period. DCMS funding has been routed via UK Sport to provide rugby league with support for the 2013 and 2021 World Cups:</p><p>2013: £500k</p><p>2021: up to £15m</p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 06/07/2018 09:19:04 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

928752

registered interest
date	21/06/2018
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	Sports: Disability
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 funding he has made available for disabled (a) rugby, (b) basketball and (c) other sports to help them attain international recognition and assist in their hosting international matches.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	156425
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2018 answer text <p>UK Sport, an Arm's Length Body of DCMS, works with National Governing Bodies (NGBs) and other partners to help them build strong and positive relationships with their respective International Federations (IFs) and other national and international sporting bodies.</p><p> </p><p>To do this, investment is prioritised to support International Relations strategies for those sports that receive UK Sport World Class Programme funding and/or have an agreed Major Events hosting target. UK Sport also provides limited investment to those sports which fall just outside of its World Class Programme funding. These include fencing, badminton, goalball, weightlifting and wheelchair rugby.</p><p> </p><p>As a result, GB Wheelchair Rugby are in receipt of UK Sport investment to support their International Relations strategy over the course of the Tokyo cycle (2017-21). This investment amounts to up to £50,000 over the four years.</p><p> </p><p>Since the London 2012 Games, a total of £1.5m in grant awards were made by UK Sport into the successful delivery of 16 non-able bodied sports events between 2013 and 2017. Of this, £340,000 was invested into the European Wheelchair Basketball Championships and £57,000 into the BT World Wheelchair Rugby Challenge which both took place in 2015.</p><p> </p><p>This year, the UK will be hosting the World Boccia Championships in Liverpool and £390,000 is being invested by UK Sport into that event.</p><p> </p><p>Next year, the UK will be hosting the World Wheelchair Curling Championships in Stirling and £56,000 is being invested by UK Sport into that event.</p><p> </p><p>The UK is also currently bidding to host the Para Cycling C1 International event in Manchester in January next year.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 28/06/2018 15:06:05 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

904093

registered interest
date	14/05/2018
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	Healthy Living Ministerial Group
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 inter-ministerial group on healthy living has held its first meeting.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	143776
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2018 answer text <p>The Inter-Ministerial Group on Healthy Living considers how sport and physical activity could be made more widely accessible, so that they benefit everyone. Information relating to the proceedings of Inter-Ministerial Groups, including when they meet, is not disclosed as to do so could harm the frankness and candour of internal discussion.</p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 22/05/2018 13:01:27 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

850074

registered interest
date	26/02/2018
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	Healthy Living Ministerial Group
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 Inter-Ministerial Group for Healthy Living is next due to meet; and whether that group will consider the correlation between a lack of physical activity by young British girls and their having poorer mental health and lower aspirations than boys.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	129642
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2018 answer text <p>Sporting Future - Second Annual Report published in January confirmed that government is establishing an Inter-Ministerial Group on Healthy Living, to be co-chaired by the Secretaries of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and Health and Social Care, which will bring together a range of departments to consider how sport and physical activity could be made more widely accessible, so that they benefit everyone. The Group will be meeting for the first time in early 2018. Although the initial focus of the Group will be on sport and physical activity over time we expect this to broaden to explore how it can add value to the health inequalities agenda more widely.</p><p> </p><p>The government’s sport strategy Sporting Future published in December 2015 recognised the impact that sport and physical activity has on mental health. We are continuing to work with sport and mental health organisations to promote the benefits of physical activity on mental health to people of all ages and backgrounds.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 06/03/2018 13:33:57 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

795291

registered interest
date	27/11/2017
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	Gambling and Alcoholic Drinks: Addictions
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 is taking to help professional sports-persons avoid or lose their addiction to gambling and alcohol.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	115712
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2017 answer text <p>The mental health of professional and elite sportspeople is a matter of importance to government. As set out in the government’s sport strategy Sporting Future, Baroness Grey-Thompson was tasked to carry out a review of the duty of care sport owes to its participants. That report was published earlier this year and covered a number of important issues including mental health. We are considering the review’s findings and recently hosted two roundtable meetings involving sportspeople and people from mental health and sport organisations to explore how sport could improve its offer of mental health support for elite and professional sportspeople.</p><p> </p><p>Professional players' associations (such as the Professional Footballers' Association or Professional Cricketers' Association) are well placed to raise awareness amongst their members about gambling and alcohol addiction, and to provide support to those that need it. Organisations like the Sporting Chance Clinic are also available to provide support to current and former sportspeople with emotional welfare and addictive disorders.</p><p> </p><p>People with alcohol or gambling problems can also access services in primary care and secondary care, including specialised mental health and addiction services. Any decisions on the commissioning of effective treatment services are the responsibility of local authorities based on an assessment of local need.</p><p> </p><p>A range of services available to problem gamblers and support for those with problems with alcohol can be found on the NHS Choices website.</p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 05/12/2017 16:57:48 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

773124

registered interest
date	18/10/2017
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: Mental Illness
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 her Department plays in supporting sports persons who are recovering from mental illness.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	108415
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2017 answer text <p>Sporting Future recognises the impact that sport has on the physical and mental health of people of all ages and highlighted the importance of welfare and wellbeing in elite sport.</p><p>We have been working closely with Department of Health, mental health and sport organisations and athletes to explore how sport can improve its offer of mental health support. I recently hosted two roundtables, one for athletes co-hosted by the Minister for Care and Mental Health and the other for sports and mental health organisations to agree an action plan for future work in this area which we will develop over the coming months.</p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 26/10/2017 08:40:20 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

757503

registered interest
date	05/09/2017
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	Drugs: Sports Competitors
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 have been found guilty of illegal drug-taking in sport in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	8476
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2017 answer text <p>UK Anti-Doping issued the following number of sanctions to athletes with Adverse Analytical Findings;</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year (1 January to 31 December)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of athletes sanctioned by UKAD following an Adverse Analytical Finding</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017 to date</p></td><td><p>9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>19</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>31</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>12</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>24</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>20</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The figures refer to the date that the athlete’s sanction was made public, in some cases the date that the athlete provided the positive sample may have been in an earlier year.</p><p>The figures relate to “Presence” cases only (i.e. the athlete provided an Adverse Analytical Finding). ‘Non-Analytical Findings’ (refusing a test, trafficking banned substances etc) are not included in these figures.</p><p> </p><p>UK Anti-Doping is a world leading National Anti-Doping Organisation (NADO) with a strong testing programme, this is evidenced by the World Anti-Doping Agency asking UKAD to manage the testing programme in Russia as part of the work to make the Russian NADO compliant once again with the World Ant-Doping Code.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is fully committed to eradicating the use of performance enhancing substances and methods in sport. Performance enhancing drugs remain a threat to the integrity of sport and the health and wellbeing of all our athletes.</p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 13/09/2017 14:49:27 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon