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1178353

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date	13/02/2020
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	Gambling: 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, when the review into online stakes will be launched by the Gambling Commission.
tabling member constituency	Swansea East
tabling member printed	Carolyn Harris
uin	1944
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2020 answer text <p>The Gambling Commission announced last October that it would be looking at the evidence regarding online stake limits as part of its ongoing work to reduce the risks of gambling related harm. This is in addition to their particular focus on VIP practices, advertising technology, and game design. The Gambling Commission has said that it will publish the assessment and next steps for online stakes and further protections later this year.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has committed to review the Gambling Act 2005 to make sure it is fit for the digital age.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 24/02/2020 17:51:10 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	4480 label Biography information for Carolyn Harris

1178716

registered interest
date	12/02/2020
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	UK Anti-doping: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister of State, Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how much funding her Department has allocated to to UK Anti-Doping in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
uin	15064
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2020 answer text <p>The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport has provided the following Grant-in-Aid funding to UK Anti-Doping over the past three years:</p><p> </p><p>FY2016/17: £6.096m</p><p>FY2017/18: £5.996m</p><p>FY2018/19: £7.998m</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 24/02/2020 09:58:33 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin

1178720

registered interest
date	12/02/2020
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	Sports: Drugs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister of State, Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of UK anti-doping procedures in preventing athletes who have failed drug tests from partaking in combat sports.
tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
uin	15068
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2020 answer text <p>The UK’s national anti-doping organisation, UK Anti-Doping (UKAD), an arm’s length body of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, acts according to the remit laid out in the UK’s National Anti-Doping Policy, and implements the UK’s National Anti-Doping Rules: <a href="https://www.ukad.org.uk/anti-doping-rules" target="_blank">https://www.ukad.org.uk/anti-doping-rules</a>.</p><p>These Rules ensure the requirements of the World Anti-Doping Code are met in the UK. The Rules make no distinction between individual sports in terms of sanctions.</p><p>Decisions around any athlete ban from sport (if contested) are made by the independent National Anti-Doping Panel (NADP). This is independent of UKAD and is run on behalf of DCMS. The NADP’s procedural rules are available on their website: <a href="https://www.sportresolutions.co.uk/images/uploads/files/D_1_-_2019_NADP_Rules.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.sportresolutions.co.uk/images/uploads/files/D_1_-_2019_NADP_Rules.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 24/02/2020 09:58:50 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston attachment 1 file name NADP 2019.pdf title 2019 Rules of the National Anti-Doping Panel
tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin

1177826

registered interest
date	11/02/2020
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	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport : Sports
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister of State, Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what proportion of his Department's work is dedicated to sport.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	739
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2020 answer text <p>At 31 December 2019 DCMS employed 1,264 Civil Servants, 50 of whom worked directly on projects relating to sport. A significant number of staff cannot be directly linked to digital, culture, media or sport as they are either part of the corporate centre (e.g Finance and HR), part of cross-cutting teams working across multiple policy areas (e.g the department’s Central Analytical Team) or part of teams which aren’t directly linked to any of these areas (e.g. the Office for Civil Society and the Gambling team).</p><p> </p><p>This information relates to Civil Servants on DCMS’ payroll. This includes permanent staff, those on fixed-term contracts, those on paid loan/secondment in/out of DCMS and those on paid maternity leave. DCMS also sponsors a number of Arms Length Bodies (ALBs) which work on projects related to sport, including Sport England, the Birmingham Organising Committee for the 2022 Commonwealth Games, Sports Grounds Safety Authority, UK Anti-Doping, and UK Sport. Their total staff numbers are as follows:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Sport England</strong></p></td><td><p>289</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Birmingham Organising Committee for the 2022 Commonwealth Games</strong></p></td><td><p>117</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Sports Grounds Safety Authority</strong></p></td><td><p>20</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>UK Anti-Doping</strong></p></td><td><p>76</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>UK Sport</strong></p></td><td><p>151</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 02/03/2020 12:05:35 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

1177827

registered interest
date	11/02/2020
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	Sports: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister of State, Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what proportion of his Department's spending was allocated to grassroots sport in each year from 2010.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	740
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2020 answer text <p>Between April 2010 and March 2019, The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport has provided over £870m in Exchequer funding to Sport England, the arms-length body of government responsible for investing in and supporting grassroots sport in England. The table below provides a year-by-year breakdown.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Sport England Grant-In-Aid/Funding</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Outturn £'000</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>£121,389</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>£97,571</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>£99,814</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>£88,634</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>£83,044</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>£93,885</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>£105,649</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>£81,343</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018/19</p></td><td><p>£98,765</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Details of DCMS's Exchequer funding to other policy areas can be found in the department's annual reports which are available online.</p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 24/02/2020 09:59:11 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West