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1173909

registered interest
date	28/01/2020
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	BBC: Information Services
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, whether his Department has undertaken an impact assessment on the effect on older people of the decision by the BBC to end the red button service; and what representations he has made to the BBC on this decision.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	9100
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2020 answer text <p>The BBC is operationally and editorially independent from the government; therefore, the government has no role in deciding whether BBC services, such as the BBC Red Button teletext service, should be continued.</p><p> </p><p>It is the BBC’s responsibility to assess the potential effect of the closure of the BBC Red Button service on older people. The Government welcomes the BBC's decision to pause the closure of the Red Button service, ahead of its review of the impact of the closure on the most vulnerable including the elderly, and deaf and blind licence fee payers.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Selby and Ainsty answering member printed Nigel Adams question first answered 03/02/2020 10:30:43 answering member 4057 label Biography information for Nigel Adams
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

1173386

registered interest
date	27/01/2020
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	BBC: Information Services
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 she has made of the potential effect of the closure of the BBC Red Button Teletext service on the public's access to information.
tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
uin	8480
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2020 answer text <p>The BBC is operationally and editorially independent from the government; therefore, the government has no role in deciding whether BBC services, such as the BBC Red Button teletext service, should be continued.</p><p> </p><p>It is the BBC’s responsibility to assess the potential effect of the closure of the BBC Red Button service on the public’s access to information. The Government welcomes the BBC's decision to pause the closure of the Red Button service, ahead of its review of the impact of the closure on the most vulnerable including the elderly, and deaf and blind licence fee payers.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Selby and Ainsty answering member printed Nigel Adams grouped question UIN 8340 question first answered 30/01/2020 17:17:07 answering member 4057 label Biography information for Nigel Adams
tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin

1173443

registered interest
date	27/01/2020
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	BBC: Information Services
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 discussions he has had with representatives of the BBC on its decision to end BBC teletext pages 102 and 1610.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	8340
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2020 answer text <p>The BBC is operationally and editorially independent from the government; therefore, the government has no role in deciding whether BBC services, such as the BBC Red Button teletext service, should be continued.</p><p> </p><p>It is the BBC’s responsibility to assess the potential effect of the closure of the BBC Red Button service on the public’s access to information. The Government welcomes the BBC's decision to pause the closure of the Red Button service, ahead of its review of the impact of the closure on the most vulnerable including the elderly, and deaf and blind licence fee payers.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Selby and Ainsty answering member printed Nigel Adams grouped question UIN 8480 question first answered 30/01/2020 17:17:07 answering member 4057 label Biography information for Nigel Adams
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

1173444

registered interest
date	27/01/2020
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	BBC: Information Services
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, whether his Department has undertaken an impact assessment on the effect on people who are both deaf and elderly of the decision by the BBC to end teletext pages 102 and 1610.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	8341
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2020 answer text <p>The BBC is operationally and editorially independent from the government; therefore, the government has no role in deciding whether BBC services, such as the BBC Red Button teletext service, should be continued.</p><p> </p><p>It is the BBC’s responsibility to assess the potential effect of the closure of the BBC Red Button service on deaf and elderly people across the UK. The Government welcomes the BBC's decision to pause the closure of the Red Button service, ahead of its review of the impact of the closure on the most vulnerable including the elderly, and deaf and blind licence fee payers.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Selby and Ainsty answering member printed Nigel Adams question first answered 30/01/2020 17:18:05 answering member 4057 label Biography information for Nigel Adams
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

1172884

registered interest
date	23/01/2020
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	BBC: Information Services
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 she has made of the potential effect of the closure of the BBC Red Button Teletext service on people's access to information on sport.
tabling member constituency	Mansfield
tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
uin	7293
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2020 answer text <p>Responsibility for assessing the potential effect of the closure of the BBC Red Button service on people’s access to information on sport is for the BBC, which is editorially and operationally independent of the Government. The Government welcomes the BBC's decision to pause the closure of the Red Button service, ahead of its review of the impact of the closure on the most vulnerable including the elderly, and deaf and blind licence fee payers.</p> answering member constituency Selby and Ainsty answering member printed Nigel Adams question first answered 05/02/2020 17:25:17 answering member 4057 label Biography information for Nigel Adams
tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley