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808909

registered interest
date	18/12/2017
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	Mobile Broadband
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 and how Ofcom’s assessment of whether mobile providers have achieved their 90 per cent target for land mass coverage by the end of 2017 will be made public.
tabling member constituency	Penistone and Stocksbridge
tabling member printed	Angela Smith
uin	120018
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/12/2017 answer text <p>Ofcom is responsible for<strong> </strong>enforcing spectrum licence obligations and it plans to publish its assessment of whether mobile providers have met their licence obligations once it has assessed their compliance in early 2018.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 22/12/2017 10:11:14 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	1564 label Biography information for Angela Smith

804486

registered interest
date	11/12/2017
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	Mobile Broadband
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 Ofcom’s assessment of whether mobile providers have achieved their 90 per cent target for land mass coverage by the end of 2017 will be published; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Penistone and Stocksbridge
tabling member printed	Angela Smith
uin	118689
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2017 answer text Ofcom plans to publish its assessment of whether Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) have met their licence obligations once it has assessed MNO compliance in early 2018. answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 18/12/2017 11:33:01 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	1564 label Biography information for Angela Smith

794390

registered interest
date	23/11/2017
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	Mobile Broadband
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 plans to take to publicise whether mobile providers meet the target for broadband coverage of 90 per cent of UK land mass by the end of 2017.
tabling member constituency	Penistone and Stocksbridge
tabling member printed	Angela Smith
uin	115363
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2017 answer text <p>The regulator Ofcom is responsible for assessing and enforcing the compliance of Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) with their licence obligations to provide voice and text coverage to at least 90% of the UK landmass, alongside Telefonica's (O2's) licence obligation to provide 4G coverage to 98% of the UK population by the end of 2017. Ofcom will assess on the MNOs' compliance in early 2018. It is also a matter for Ofcom to report whether the MNOs met these obligations and it can issue fines to MNOs that fail to meet their licence obligations.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock grouped question UIN 115365 115366 question first answered 01/12/2017 09:31:22 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	1564 label Biography information for Angela Smith

794392

registered interest
date	23/11/2017
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	Mobile Broadband
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 assessment she has made of whether mobile providers will reach the target of providing voice and text services to more than 90 per cent of the UK landmass by the end of 2017.
tabling member constituency	Penistone and Stocksbridge
tabling member printed	Angela Smith
uin	115365
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2017 answer text <p>The regulator Ofcom is responsible for assessing and enforcing the compliance of Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) with their licence obligations to provide voice and text coverage to at least 90% of the UK landmass, alongside Telefonica's (O2's) licence obligation to provide 4G coverage to 98% of the UK population by the end of 2017. Ofcom will assess on the MNOs' compliance in early 2018. It is also a matter for Ofcom to report whether the MNOs met these obligations and it can issue fines to MNOs that fail to meet their licence obligations.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock grouped question UIN 115363 115366 question first answered 01/12/2017 09:31:22 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	1564 label Biography information for Angela Smith

794393

registered interest
date	23/11/2017
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	Mobile Broadband
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 penalties will be enacted if mobile providers do not achieve coverage of 90 per cent of UK landmass coverage by the end of 2017.
tabling member constituency	Penistone and Stocksbridge
tabling member printed	Angela Smith
uin	115366
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2017 answer text <p>The regulator Ofcom is responsible for assessing and enforcing the compliance of Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) with their licence obligations to provide voice and text coverage to at least 90% of the UK landmass, alongside Telefonica's (O2's) licence obligation to provide 4G coverage to 98% of the UK population by the end of 2017. Ofcom will assess on the MNOs' compliance in early 2018. It is also a matter for Ofcom to report whether the MNOs met these obligations and it can issue fines to MNOs that fail to meet their licence obligations.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock grouped question UIN 115363 115365 question first answered 01/12/2017 09:31:22 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	1564 label Biography information for Angela Smith

600589

registered interest
date	12/10/2016
answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Greyhounds: Animal Welfare
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what progress the Government has made on increasing funding for greyhound welfare from gambling operators since publication of the Government response to the Second Report of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee, Session 2015-16, on Greyhound welfare, HC 478.
tabling member constituency	Penistone and Stocksbridge
tabling member printed	Angela Smith
uin	48466
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2016 answer text <p>The betting and greyhound industries should work together and that contributions from betting should reflect the total income generated by the sport.</p><p> </p><p>While there have been a number of discussions between the two industries on this issue since the publication of the Committee’s report, I was disappointed to hear that no further commitments to increase funding have yet been made.</p><p> </p><p>I will be raising this matter again with the betting industry and making my views clear.</p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 18/10/2016 15:02:18 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
tabling member	1564 label Biography information for Angela Smith

436693

registered interest
date	09/12/2015
answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Greyhound Racing: Taxation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether his Department plans to establish a statutory levy on greyhound racing to help support the welfare of retired greyhounds.
tabling member constituency	Penistone and Stocksbridge
tabling member printed	Angela Smith
uin	19491
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2015 answer text <p>I recently wrote to the betting industry to underline the importance that the government attaches to the existing voluntary agreements between betting and greyhound racing through which funding is provided towards areas including animal welfare.</p><p>The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is currently undertaking a review of the effectiveness of the Welfare of Racing Greyhounds Regulations 2010. In addition, the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (EFRA) Parliamentary Select Committee is undertaking an inquiry into greyhound welfare to feed into Defra’s review. My Department has submitted written evidence to EFRA and we will want to consider any recommendations put forward by them as part of Defra’s review of the 2010 Regulations.</p><br /> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 16/12/2015 17:03:19 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
tabling member	1564 label Biography information for Angela Smith