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1676412

registered interest
date	07/12/2023
answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	217
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	BBC: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to formally consult (a) BBC trade union representatives and (b) the wider public on the review of the BBC funding model.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	5823
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2023 answer text <p>The BBC Funding Review will look at how alternative models could help secure the broadcaster’s long-term sustainability amid an evolving media landscape, increased competition and changing audience behaviour, while reducing the burden on licence fee payers.</p><p>We will not be running a public consultation as part of this review, as a formal public consultation will be launched as part of Charter Review itself. Charter Review is the right time for decisions on funding to be made, as only through amending the Charter and associated legislation can the BBC’s funding model be changed for the next Charter period.</p><p>As part of the review, we will appoint an expert panel that incorporates a broad range of views from across the sector to support the Government throughout the review. Its role will be to provide advice and external challenge.</p> answering member constituency Maldon answering member printed Sir John Whittingdale question first answered 13/12/2023 14:35:20 answering member 39 label Biography information for Sir John Whittingdale
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1666495

registered interest
date	23/10/2023
answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	217
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Local Press: Sustainable Development
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of trends in the number of journalists on the sustainability of local media reporting.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	203808
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2023 answer text <p>We are working to support journalism and local newsrooms to ensure the sustainability of this vital industry.</p><p>This includes our new digital markets regime, which will help rebalance the relationship between online platforms and those who rely on them – including local press publishers.</p><p>Additionally, our support for the sector has included the delivery of the £2 million Future News Fund; the zero rating of VAT on e-newspapers; the extension of a 2017 business rates relief on local newspaper office space until 2025; the publication of the Online Media Literacy Strategy; and the BBC also supports the sector directly, through the £8m it spends each year on the Local News Partnership, including the Local Democracy Reporting Scheme.</p> answering member constituency Maldon answering member printed Sir John Whittingdale question first answered 26/10/2023 08:05:48 answering member 39 label Biography information for Sir John Whittingdale
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1644169

registered interest
date	13/06/2023
answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	217
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	BBC: Local Broadcasting
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what recent discussions she has held with (a) BBC management and (b) Ofcom on conducting equality impact assessments on changes to BBC local radio coverage for (i) elderly, (ii) disabled and (iii) black and minority ethnic people.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	189226
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2023 answer text <p>The Government remains disappointed that the BBC is planning to reduce parts of its local output. Ministers have met with the BBC on several occasions since the announcement where they have expressed the concerns shared across the House about the BBC’s plans.</p><p>While it is up to the BBC to decide how it delivers its services, the Government has been clear with the Chair of the BBC Board and the Director General that the BBC must make sure it continues to provide distinctive and genuinely local radio services, with content that reflects and represents people and communities from all corners of the UK. These services are a key part of the BBC’s public service remit and an example of how the BBC can use its licence fee funding to provide content that is directly relevant to audiences, particularly in areas that may be underserved by the market.</p><p>The BBC is editorially and operationally independent, and the decision over whether to proceed with, and consider the potential impacts for audiences of these changes under their public sector equality duty, is for them.</p><p>The Government also expects Ofcom, as regulator of the BBC, to ensure the BBC is robustly held to account in delivering its public service duties. As part of this, the BBC will be required to monitor the impact of changes on audiences and publish more information about how it delivers high quality, distinctive content and services for audiences across the UK.</p> answering member constituency Maldon answering member printed Sir John Whittingdale grouped question UIN 189227 question first answered 19/06/2023 08:56:57 answering member 39 label Biography information for Sir John Whittingdale
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1644170

registered interest
date	13/06/2023
answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	217
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	BBC: Local Broadcasting
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of changes to BBC local radio coverage on (i) elderly, (ii) disabled and (iii) black and minority ethnic people.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	189227
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2023 answer text <p>The Government remains disappointed that the BBC is planning to reduce parts of its local output. Ministers have met with the BBC on several occasions since the announcement where they have expressed the concerns shared across the House about the BBC’s plans.</p><p>While it is up to the BBC to decide how it delivers its services, the Government has been clear with the Chair of the BBC Board and the Director General that the BBC must make sure it continues to provide distinctive and genuinely local radio services, with content that reflects and represents people and communities from all corners of the UK. These services are a key part of the BBC’s public service remit and an example of how the BBC can use its licence fee funding to provide content that is directly relevant to audiences, particularly in areas that may be underserved by the market.</p><p>The BBC is editorially and operationally independent, and the decision over whether to proceed with, and consider the potential impacts for audiences of these changes under their public sector equality duty, is for them.</p><p>The Government also expects Ofcom, as regulator of the BBC, to ensure the BBC is robustly held to account in delivering its public service duties. As part of this, the BBC will be required to monitor the impact of changes on audiences and publish more information about how it delivers high quality, distinctive content and services for audiences across the UK.</p> answering member constituency Maldon answering member printed Sir John Whittingdale grouped question UIN 189226 question first answered 19/06/2023 08:56:57 answering member 39 label Biography information for Sir John Whittingdale
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

746929

registered interest
date	29/06/2017
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	Broadband
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what recent steps she has taken to prepare for the roll-out of ultrafast broadband.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	2062
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2017 answer text <p>The UK has made considerable progress so far in extending ultrafast broadband through full fibre and other connectivity technologies. According to thinkbroadband, over 52% of the UK has access to ultrafast speeds of 100 Megabits per second or more.</p><p> </p><p>The Government’s aim is to provide ultrafast connectivity to as many businesses and homes as possible. We will achieve this by developing approaches to show how new investment from government and the private sector could transform the UK’s full fibre availability. We have set in train our investment plans for extending full fibre, investing £200m to fund locally-led projects across the UK to leverage local and commercial investment in full fibre, beginning the first wave of projects in 2017.</p><p> </p><p>We are preparing plans to introduce a full fibre connection voucher for companies across the country by 2018. As we announced on the 3<sup>rd</sup> July, the £400 million Digital Infrastructure Investment Fund will unlock over £1 billion for full fibre broadband, and kick-start better broadband connections across the country. Further information can be found here (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/billion-pound-connectivity-boost-to-make-buffering-a-thing-of-the-past" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/news/billion-pound-connectivity-boost-to-make-buffering-a-thing-of-the-past</a>)</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 07/07/2017 09:45:59 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

731438

registered interest
date	21/06/2017
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	Tourism
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will bring forward legislative proposals to relocate regional assets held in national galleries and libraries to their areas of origin to promote regional tourism.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	339
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2017 answer text <p>DCMS does not plan to legislate to relocate regional assets held in national galleries, museums and libraries. The Government supports and encourages the sharing of the national collections across the United Kingdom, to enable as many people as possible to see them and to promote regional tourism. Several national institutions are either based, or have branches, outside of London and collections are shared across the UK through loans of objects and touring exhibitions. For example, the National Gallery, National Portrait Gallery, British Library and Tate each have extensive national loans and touring programmes.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 30/06/2017 13:26:41 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

731439

registered interest
date	21/06/2017
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	Tourism: County Durham
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much funding the Government provides to public bodies to promote and develop tourism to the Durham Heritage coast.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	340
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2017 answer text <p>It is not possible to ascertain the precise figure of funding given to the Durham Heritage coast. Government’s funding for tourism, through VisitBritain and VisitEngland, is not allocated by area but instead focuses on promoting the country as a whole and thematically. Durham Heritage coast has recently benefited from projects funded by Heritage Lottery Fund and Arts Council England.</p><p> </p><p>My colleagues in the Department for Communities and Local Government also provide support and funding to coastal areas through the Coastal Communities Fund, much of which has a tourism focus.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 30/06/2017 13:27:46 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

731440

registered interest
date	21/06/2017
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	Leisure: Easington
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if the Government will make funding available for the construction and maintenance of a swimming pool and other leisure facilities in Easington constituency to promote health and wellbeing.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	341
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2017 answer text <p>Local Government is by far the largest investor into community sport with £1bn invested each year and most grassroots sport is played using facilities (including parks and informal spaces) owned or controlled by the 353 local authorities in England. The government, through Sport England, works in partnership with local authorities to maximise the impact of this investment and safeguard it within the tough economic climate in which we all operate.</p><p> </p><p>Current Local Delivery Pilots are still in development and the government is exploring new ways of working across local authorities, Sport England and other partners in delivering local sporting facilities and infrastructure.</p><p> </p><p>Sport England has no current plans to develop a major, Strategic Facility, investment in Easington, but their funds for future investment can be applied for through their website.</p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 12/07/2017 09:56:34 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris