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1280119

registered interest
date	28/01/2021
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	Employment: Privacy
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 guidance his Department has issued for employees informing them of their rights to privacy at work since the outbreak of the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	142927
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2021 answer text <p>The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is the UK’s independent regulator for data protection and is responsible for providing advice and guidance on compliance with the UK’s data protection laws.</p><p>The ICO has created a data protection and coronavirus information hub to help individuals and organisations navigate data protection during this unprecedented time, available at: <a href="https://ico.org.uk/global/data-protection-and-coronavirus-information-hub/" target="_blank">https://ico.org.uk/global/data-protection-and-coronavirus-information-hub/</a>. The Hub includes advice for people about how and when organisations can process their personal data during the coronavirus pandemic and how to keep their personal data safe.</p><p>The ICO has also published specific guidance for employers on the rules in relation to monitoring of employees. Section 3.2 of its Employment Practices Code deals with the monitoring of telephone, fax, e-mail, voice-mail, internet access and other forms of electronic communication: <a href="https://ico.org.uk/media/for-organisations/documents/1064/the_employment_practices_code.pdf" target="_blank">https://ico.org.uk/media/for-organisations/documents/1064/the_employment_practices_code.pdf</a>.</p><p>Employees who have concerns about the way employers are using their data can contact the ICO’s helpline on 0303 123 1113 or their livechat at <a href="https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/live-chat/" target="_blank">https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/live-chat/</a> for further advice, from Monday to Friday between 9am and 5pm.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Maldon answering member printed Mr John Whittingdale question first answered 28/01/2021 15:37:55 answering member 39 label Biography information for Sir John Whittingdale
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1279695

registered interest
date	22/01/2021
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	Employment: Privacy
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 times the information commissioner (a) investigated and (b) fined companies for breaching an employee's right to privacy (i) in each of the five years to April 2020 and (ii) since April 2020.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	141983
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2021 answer text <p>The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is currently investigating eight cases in relation to employees’ right to privacy in connection with the use of employee monitoring technology. The ICO has reported that it has not been possible to provide details of the concluded cases in each of the five years to April 2020 within the very limited time available.</p><p>My department will write to the Honourable Member with further details in due course and place a copy of the letter in the House Library.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Maldon answering member printed Mr John Whittingdale question first answered 27/01/2021 16:31:52 answering member 39 label Biography information for Sir John Whittingdale
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1278075

registered interest
date	19/01/2021
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	Tech Nation: Equality
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 Tech Nation's (a) grants and (b) programme support have been awarded to (i) women, (ii) ethnic minorities and (iii) people with disabilities; and for what reason the impact evaluation did not include an equalities impact assessment.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	140074
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2021 answer text <p>The average number of companies with at least one female founder on Tech Nation’s programmes is 25%, meaning that one quarter of the grant money received from DCMS has directly supported female founders in their scaling journey. Tech Nation does not issue any grants itself.</p><p>Tech Nation has recently commenced data capture on ethnic background and disabilities of applicants to its programmes. This is subject to a self-identification process by participants.</p><p>It is also developing a diversity data capture framework to be expanded to cohort companies and the wider industry, via an external toolkit.</p><p>The objective of the Frontier Economics study was to evaluate Tech Nation’s impact in accordance with its original grant agreement.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 25/01/2021 09:29:35 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1278076

registered interest
date	19/01/2021
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	Tech Nation: Pay
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 the gender pay gap is within Tech Nation.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	140075
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2021 answer text <p>As of 22 January 2021, the gender pay gap at Tech Nation was -6% excluding executives and 7% including executives. 60% of Tech Nation’s overall workforce and 50% of the exec team are female.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 26/01/2021 16:05:37 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1278078

registered interest
date	19/01/2021
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	Disinformation: Radicalism
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 assessment he has made of the correlation between misinformation and radicalisation; and whether the Misinformation Unit reports radicalisation to the Home Office.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	140077
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2021 answer text <p>The Government takes the issue of misinformation and disinformation very seriously. That is why we stood up the Counter Disinformation Unit up in March 2020 to bring together cross-Government monitoring and analysis capabilities. The Unit’s primary function is to provide a comprehensive picture of the extent, scope and impact of misinformation and disinformation regarding Covid-19 and to work with partners. including the Home Office, to ensure appropriate action is taken.</p><p>There is no single pathway to radicalisation but we are aware that misinformation is one tool amongst many used by radicalisers to recruit and influence vulnerable people. Since the pandemic, we have also observed extremist influencers exploiting Covid-19 to spread conspiracy theories and false narratives to promote their own agenda.</p><p>We are absolutely clear that online content which makes dangerous or incorrect claims about the virus, or propels extreme views must be tackled. In addition to our work with the social media platforms to address misinformation and disinformation and our work to build audience resilience to disinformation online through the SHARE checklist, we also work closely with the Home Office, whose existing programmes such as Prevent play a key role in tackling the issue of radicalisation in all its forms.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 22/01/2021 15:18:37 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1277525

registered interest
date	18/01/2021
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 Protection: EU Law
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 he has made of the viability of obtaining a data adequacy decision from the European Commission before the end of the specified period covering the interim provision for transmission of personal data to the UK agreed under the terms of the UK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	138961
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2021 answer text <p>The EU’s adequacy assessments, underway since March 2020, ascertain whether UK data protection standards are ‘essentially equivalent’ to the EU’s. Given we have an existing data protection framework that is equivalent to the EU’s, we see no reason why the UK should not be awarded adequacy and we expect the process to be concluded promptly.</p><p>The EU left insufficient time to adopt data adequacy decisions before the end of the transition period. We have therefore agreed with the EU a time-limited ‘bridging mechanism’ which will allow personal data to continue to flow as it did previously whilst EU adequacy decisions for the UK are adopted. In practice, we do not expect the bridging mechanism to be in place for more than 4 months, which is when the bridge is envisioned to expire, but there is scope to extend it to 6 months if required. As stated above, given the UK has an existing data protection framework that is equivalent to the EU’s, we see no reason why the UK should not be awarded adequacy in this timeframe.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Maldon answering member printed Mr John Whittingdale question first answered 25/01/2021 16:32:03 answering member 39 label Biography information for Sir John Whittingdale
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1277526

registered interest
date	18/01/2021
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 Protection: EU Law
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 involvement the Information Commissioner’s Office will have in the EU's General Data Protection Regulations’ One Stop Shop mechanism during the interim provision for transmission of personal data agreed under the terms of the UK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement; and if he will publish guidance on that matter for UK (a) citizens and (b) businesses.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	138962
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2021 answer text <p>At the end of the transition period EU data protection legislation generally ceased to apply in the UK and the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is no longer part of the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) One Stop Shop (OSS) mechanism. The ICO will continue to cooperate and collaborate with European supervisory authorities regarding any breaches of GDPR that affect individuals in the UK and other EU and EEA states.</p><p>It is in our mutual interests to establish a shared approach for regulatory cooperation on data protection issues with the EU. Having secured a commitment to regulatory cooperation on data protection in the Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA), we are working to further develop and implement these arrangements.</p><p>Guidance is available on the ICO website.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Maldon answering member printed Mr John Whittingdale question first answered 25/01/2021 16:31:03 answering member 39 label Biography information for Sir John Whittingdale
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1277753

registered interest
date	18/01/2021
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	Tech Nation: Expenditure
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 much Government funding has been allocated to Tech Nation in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	138964
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2021 answer text <p>The total DCMS grant allocation for the last five financial years was:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Financial Year</p></td><td><p>Total Grant</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>£4,236,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>£4,335,333</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018/19</p></td><td><p>£5,709,605</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019/20</p></td><td><p>£6,963,725</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020/21</p></td><td><p>£7,553,429</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In addition MOJ have allocated a £2m grant to Tech Nation from October 2019 to March 2022.</p><p>Tech Nation delivered a total of £158 million of Gross Value Added (GVA) in financial years 2018/19 and 2019/20 combined and expects to deliver over £200 million (approx. £248 million) by the end of the 2020/21 financial year. This represents a return on investment of over 10x.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 21/01/2021 13:26:32 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1277754

registered interest
date	18/01/2021
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	Tech Nation: Equality
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 progress Tech Nation has made in improving diversity within (a) within the tech sector and (b) its own organisation.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	138965
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2021 answer text <p>Tech Nation is committed to improving diversity and inclusion within the tech sector. Within their growth programmes, the percentage of non-London companies they support has risen from 32% to 68% since 2018 and they have been collecting ethnicity data from applicants since 2020.</p><p>They have also taken a proactive stance on improving representation in the sector through a number of initiatives such as the successful ‘female founder hours’, improving inclusivity of online resources and developing a diverse speaker database.</p><p>Their annual Tech Nation Report has included detailed diversity statistics on the UK tech sector since the organisation was established in 2018 and they released their Diversity &amp; Inclusion Report in 2019 which delved deeper into this topic.</p><p>For the past two years, they have collaborated with the TechTalent Charter on the data collection which supports their work driving inclusion and diversity in tech recruitment. They have partnered with Extend Ventures in a research capacity for their in-depth report, Diversity Beyond Gender. They have also acted as a delivery partner with OneTech - an organisation dedicated to challenging inequity in the digital sector.</p><p>Tech Nation are committed to fostering a culture of inclusivity within their organisation and to implementing diverse hiring practices, including using job boards such as Black Young Professionals Network and Disabilities Jobsite UK. They are also currently collecting thorough diversity data internally. This uses a newly-developed framework which they then plan to extend to cohort companies and the wider industry, via an external toolkit.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 22/01/2021 15:20:35 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1277761

registered interest
date	18/01/2021
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: Databases
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 information gateways there are in operation in his Department; and how those gateways are managed and monitored.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	138967
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2021 answer text <p>DCMS is able to share information with third parties including government departments, public bodies, agencies, devolved nations or local authorities using statutory information gateways. DCMS does not hold a central list of all information sharing gateways available to it.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Each information gateway will have its own management and governance requirements depending on the type of information being shared, and will have to comply with the Data Protection Legislation. In addition, any data sharing will be managed in accordance with the department's data and information policies and standards and our compliance and commitment to protecting citizens' data.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Maldon answering member printed Mr John Whittingdale question first answered 22/01/2021 16:54:00 answering member 39 label Biography information for Sir John Whittingdale
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah