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1312949

registered interest
date	11/05/2021
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	Football Governance Fan-led Review
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 timeframe is for the completion of the Fan-led review of football governance.
tabling member constituency	South Leicestershire
tabling member printed	Alberto Costa
uin	312
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/05/2021 answer text <p>We are currently working through the structure of the review with the Chair, including the timeline for publication of the report, and will provide updates shortly. Given the seriousness of these issues, we will be looking to move at pace on this.</p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 19/05/2021 12:26:30 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	4439 label Biography information for Alberto Costa

1312963

registered interest
date	11/05/2021
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	Events Industry: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if he will extend eligibility of the £1.57 billion rescue package for the arts and entertainment sector announced on 5 July 2020 to (a) sound system and set build providers and (b) other supply chain businesses in that sector.
tabling member constituency	Hemel Hempstead
tabling member printed	Sir Mike Penning
uin	135
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2021 answer text <p>The Government recognises the severe impact the pandemic has had on supply chain businesses for the events sector. Supply chain organisations were eligible for - and many were successful in securing from - the first and second rounds of Culture Recovery Funding. They are recognised as a critical part of the sector.</p><p>An announcement on the additional £300 million provided to the Culture Recovery Fund announced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the recent Budget will be made in due course.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 17/05/2021 10:20:56 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning

1312964

registered interest
date	11/05/2021
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	Bingo: Coronavirus
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 support he plans to provide to bingo clubs for their reopening on 17 May 2021 to help those clubs deal with the financial pressure they have faced during the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	Jarrow
tabling member printed	Kate Osborne
uin	488
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2021 answer text <p>The government recognises that the ongoing impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic continue to be extremely challenging for businesses, including in the Bingo sector. In recognition of the impact of requiring some businesses to remain closed for a longer period, we have introduced an enhanced package of support, including Restart Grants of up to £18,000 per premises, specifically for those which have been required to remain closed beyond Step 2. The package also includes extensions to the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme and Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme, with further discretionary funding for Local Authorities.</p><p> </p><p>Bingo clubs have accessed £44m of government support via the Coronavirus Jobs Retention Scheme (£26.8m), Eat Out to Help Out (£600k), Business Rates Relief (£15.9m) and Grant funding (£1.6m). We are continuing to work with organisations in the land-based gambling sector to understand the impacts and how we may be able to support them.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Maldon answering member printed Mr John Whittingdale question first answered 17/05/2021 10:30:29 answering member 39 label Biography information for Sir John Whittingdale
tabling member	4783 label Biography information for Kate Osborne

1313019

registered interest
date	11/05/2021
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	Dormant Assets Scheme
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 Government plans to bring forward legislative proposals to expand the Dormant Assets Scheme.
tabling member constituency	High Peak
tabling member printed	Robert Largan
uin	548
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/05/2021 answer text <p>On 11 May, the State Opening of Parliament took place and the Queen's Speech set out the Government's agenda for the next session. It was announced that the Dormant Assets Bill is set to be introduced in the Second Session of Parliament, and on 12 May the Bill had its first reading in the House of Lords.</p><p> </p><p>Once legislation has achieved Royal Assent, the speed at which it can be implemented and new funds will become available is dependent on regulator and industry readiness, as well as their voluntary participation in the Scheme. We anticipate that the estimated £880 million to be unlocked through the expansion of the Scheme will take several years to be released.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Boston and Skegness answering member printed Matt Warman question first answered 18/05/2021 10:47:55 answering member 4361 label Biography information for Matt Warman
tabling member	4852 label Biography information for Robert Largan

1313021

registered interest
date	11/05/2021
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	Dormant Assets Scheme
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 his Department has plans to (a) review the estimated value of assets that are dormant in each of the new asset classes to be included in the expanded Dormant Assets Scheme and (b) publish the methodology used to calculate those values.
tabling member constituency	High Peak
tabling member printed	Robert Largan
uin	549
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/05/2021 answer text <p>The Dormant Assets Scheme is led by industry and backed by the government with the aim of reuniting people with their financial assets. Where this is not possible, this money supports important social and environmental initiatives across the UK.</p><p>As a voluntary Scheme, industry stakeholders have been at the forefront of efforts to bring assets from the insurance and pensions, investment and wealth management, and securities sectors into scope. This includes leading work to estimate the value of dormancy currently in each sector and using their experience and understanding of reunification processes to inform their estimates of how much could be reunited with their owners successfully. The government is grateful for their work on this and has no plans to review their estimates or methodology at this time.</p><p>The following table sets out estimated value of assets that are dormant in each of the new asset classes to be included in the expanded Dormant Assets Scheme, broken down by sector:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Sector</p></td><td><p>Dormant assets</p></td><td><p>Could be reunited with owners through enhanced tracing efforts</p></td><td><p>Could be transferred to RFL</p></td><td><p>Could be released to social and environmental initiatives</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Insurance and pensions</p></td><td><p>£2.1bn</p></td><td><p>£1.17bn</p></td><td><p>£959m</p></td><td><p>£575m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Investment and wealth management</p></td><td><p>£1.4bn</p></td><td><p>£781m</p></td><td><p>£588m</p></td><td><p>£238m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Securities</p></td><td><p>£158m</p></td><td><p>£48m</p></td><td><p>£110m</p></td><td><p>£66m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>TOTAL</p></td><td><p>£3.7bn</p></td><td><p>£2bn</p></td><td><p>£1.7bn</p></td><td><p>£880m</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The government is now set to expand the Scheme through primary legislation, which was introduced in the House of Lords on Wednesday 12 May 2021.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Boston and Skegness answering member printed Matt Warman question first answered 19/05/2021 12:08:21 answering member 4361 label Biography information for Matt Warman
tabling member	4852 label Biography information for Robert Largan

1313022

registered interest
date	11/05/2021
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	Dormant Assets Scheme
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 his Department took the decision to define dormancy as it has under the Dormant Assets Scheme in light of the use by the finance industry of the broader definition of unclaimed assets.
tabling member constituency	High Peak
tabling member printed	Robert Largan
uin	550
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/05/2021 answer text <p>The Dormant Assets Bill, introduced to the House of Lords on 12th May, will enable the Dormant Assets Scheme to accept a wider range of dormant assets – expanding from bank and building society accounts to include certain assets in the insurance and pensions, investment and wealth management, and securities sectors.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Scheme expansion has been led by industry, who have been instrumental in determining how this expansion would work in practice. The definitions of dormancy used for the expanded Scheme have been tailored to each asset class, based on existing practice and relevant regulations within each sector.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The Bill also introduces a new power for the Secretary of State or HM Treasury to expand the Scheme through secondary legislation in the future. This will enable the Scheme to build experience with managing new and complex asset classes before broadening the pool further. The government anticipates close engagement with industry if, and when, new assets are introduced to the Scheme under this power.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Boston and Skegness answering member printed Matt Warman question first answered 18/05/2021 10:46:55 answering member 4361 label Biography information for Matt Warman
tabling member	4852 label Biography information for Robert Largan

1313038

registered interest
date	11/05/2021
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	Pornography: 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, what steps his Department is taking to implement an age verification process for access to legal online pornography.
tabling member constituency	Bromsgrove
tabling member printed	Sajid Javid
uin	199
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2021 answer text <p>Protecting children is at the heart of our online harms agenda and wider government priorities. The strongest protections in the online safety legislation will be for children.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Under our now-published draft Online Safety legislation, we expect companies to use age verification technologies to prevent children from accessing services which pose the highest risk of harm to children, such as online pornography.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The online safety regime will capture both the most visited pornography sites and pornography on social media, therefore covering the vast majority of sites where children are most likely to be exposed to pornography. Social media platforms will need to put appropriate systems and processes in place to prevent children viewing pornography on their services.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The draft Online Safety legislation will be subject to pre-legislative scrutiny in this session. We are also working closely with Ofcom to ensure that the implementation period, that will be necessary following passage of the legislation, is as short as possible.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 17/05/2021 11:30:34 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	3945 label Biography information for Sir Sajid Javid

1313113

registered interest
date	11/05/2021
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: Children
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 he is taking to ensure the protection of children’s personal data online.
tabling member constituency	Ogmore
tabling member printed	Chris Elmore
uin	395
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2021 answer text <p>The Government is committed to making sure that we have high data protection standards and that people of all ages are confident that their personal data will be protected and used in an appropriate way.</p><p>All organisations in the UK that process personal data have to comply with the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA). Any use of children’s data must be lawful, fair and transparent. Children should be given clear information about how their data will be used and they have the same rights as adults to access their data; request rectification; object to its processing or have it erased. Organisations offering online services directly to children must seek parental consent to process the personal data of children under the age of 13.</p><p>The DPA requires the Information Commissioner, the independent data protection regulator, to publish an Age Appropriate Design Code. The Code sets out standards of age appropriate design that companies will need to implement to ensure their services appropriately safeguard children’s personal data and process children’s personal data fairly. The Code came into force in September 2020 with a 12 month transition period for industry. It will play a key role in delivering protections for children ahead of and alongside the government’s new online safety regulatory framework. Organisations will need to conform by 2nd September 2021.</p><p>The ICO has committed to providing a package of support to organisations during the transition period to support conformance to the Code, with all guidance contained in a Children’s Code Hub on the ICO’s website at <a href="https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/childrens-code-hub/" target="_blank">https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/childrens-code-hub/</a>. The ICO is ensuring they engage with experts, children and parents when developing guidance, and has recently launched a Children’s Advisory Panel to support the implementation of the Code.</p><p>The ICO has also advertised for transparency champions to submit privacy information designs so that children can easily understand how, when and why services use their data.</p><p>Discussions about data protection and online safety are held regularly across government.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Maldon answering member printed Mr John Whittingdale grouped question UIN 396 question first answered 17/05/2021 15:11:20 answering member 39 label Biography information for Sir John Whittingdale
tabling member	4572 label Biography information for Chris Elmore

1313114

registered interest
date	11/05/2021
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: Children
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 discussions he has had with the Home Secretary on the protection of children’s data online.
tabling member constituency	Ogmore
tabling member printed	Chris Elmore
uin	396
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2021 answer text <p>The Government is committed to making sure that we have high data protection standards and that people of all ages are confident that their personal data will be protected and used in an appropriate way.</p><p>All organisations in the UK that process personal data have to comply with the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA). Any use of children’s data must be lawful, fair and transparent. Children should be given clear information about how their data will be used and they have the same rights as adults to access their data; request rectification; object to its processing or have it erased. Organisations offering online services directly to children must seek parental consent to process the personal data of children under the age of 13.</p><p>The DPA requires the Information Commissioner, the independent data protection regulator, to publish an Age Appropriate Design Code. The Code sets out standards of age appropriate design that companies will need to implement to ensure their services appropriately safeguard children’s personal data and process children’s personal data fairly. The Code came into force in September 2020 with a 12 month transition period for industry. It will play a key role in delivering protections for children ahead of and alongside the government’s new online safety regulatory framework. Organisations will need to conform by 2nd September 2021.</p><p>The ICO has committed to providing a package of support to organisations during the transition period to support conformance to the Code, with all guidance contained in a Children’s Code Hub on the ICO’s website at <a href="https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/childrens-code-hub/" target="_blank">https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/childrens-code-hub/</a>. The ICO is ensuring they engage with experts, children and parents when developing guidance, and has recently launched a Children’s Advisory Panel to support the implementation of the Code.</p><p>The ICO has also advertised for transparency champions to submit privacy information designs so that children can easily understand how, when and why services use their data.</p><p>Discussions about data protection and online safety are held regularly across government.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Maldon answering member printed Mr John Whittingdale grouped question UIN 395 question first answered 17/05/2021 15:11:20 answering member 39 label Biography information for Sir John Whittingdale
tabling member	4572 label Biography information for Chris Elmore

1313132

registered interest
date	11/05/2021
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	Telecommunications: Infrastructure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if he will prohibit the use of wooden telegraph poles for communication cabling where a less visibly obtrusive alternative, such as underground cabling, is available.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	212
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2021 answer text <p>The Electronic Communications Code gives Code Operators the rights to install apparatus for the purposes of providing electronic communication networks. The apparatus installed is subject to commercial considerations and any relevant planning requirements. Operators are also expected to adhere to the <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cabinet-siting-and-pole-siting-code-of-practice-issue-2-2016" target="_blank">Cabinet and Pole Siting Code of Practice</a> to ensure new apparatus is installed sensitively.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Boston and Skegness answering member printed Matt Warman question first answered 17/05/2021 10:35:29 answering member 4361 label Biography information for Matt Warman
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris