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820731

registered interest
date	11/01/2018
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	National Lottery
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 information his Department holds on the proportion of the price of an entry to the (a) Lotto, (b) Lotto Hotpicks, (c) Thunderball, (d) Euromillions, (e) Online Instant Wins, (f) UK Millionaire Maker and (g) Millionaire Raffle National Lottery games which goes to charity.
tabling member constituency	West Ham
tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
uin	122149
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2018 answer text <p>Rates of return to good causes from the National Lottery vary by game and sales channel, with an additional 5% returned from online purchases as retailer commission is not paid. The percentage returns to good causes in 2016/17 from draw-based games were:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Game</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Percentage to good causes</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lotto</p></td><td><p>31%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lotto Hotpicks</p></td><td><p>29%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Thunderball</p></td><td><p>26%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>EuroMillions</p></td><td><p>29%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>(Source: Gambling Commission)</p><p> </p><p>The UK Millionaire Maker and the Millionaire Raffle are elements of the EuroMillions and Lotto games respectively, and their contributions to good causes are included in the above figures.</p><p> </p><p>Scratchcards return between 4% - 17% and interactive instant-win games return between 10% - 22% depending on the structure of the game. The Department does not hold information on returns for individual games.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch grouped question UIN 122150 question first answered 19/01/2018 13:34:36 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

820732

registered interest
date	11/01/2018
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	National Lottery
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 information his Department holds on the proportion of the price of (a) Monopoly Millionaire 2018, (b) Pay Out, (c) Santa’s Millions 2017, (d) Stocking Filler, (e) Triple Lucky 7s, (f) £1 Million Monopoly, (g) £1 Million Purple, (h) £100 Cash Spectacular Yellow, (i) £100,000 Monopoly, (j) £100,000 Red, (k) £4 Million Blue, (l) £250 Million Cash Spectacular, (m) 20X Cash Red, (n) Bingo Blue, (o) Cashword Pink and (p) £250,000 Exclusive National Lottery scratch-cards which goes to charity.
tabling member constituency	West Ham
tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
uin	122150
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2018 answer text <p>Rates of return to good causes from the National Lottery vary by game and sales channel, with an additional 5% returned from online purchases as retailer commission is not paid. The percentage returns to good causes in 2016/17 from draw-based games were:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Game</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Percentage to good causes</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lotto</p></td><td><p>31%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lotto Hotpicks</p></td><td><p>29%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Thunderball</p></td><td><p>26%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>EuroMillions</p></td><td><p>29%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>(Source: Gambling Commission)</p><p> </p><p>The UK Millionaire Maker and the Millionaire Raffle are elements of the EuroMillions and Lotto games respectively, and their contributions to good causes are included in the above figures.</p><p> </p><p>Scratchcards return between 4% - 17% and interactive instant-win games return between 10% - 22% depending on the structure of the game. The Department does not hold information on returns for individual games.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch grouped question UIN 122149 question first answered 19/01/2018 13:34:36 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

820759

registered interest
date	11/01/2018
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	Charity Commission: Public Appointments
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 selection criteria were for the most recent round of appointments to the board of the Charities Commission.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	122177
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2018 answer text <p>Candidates for the Legal Trustee Role, which was advertised in the most recent round of appointments to the board of the Charity Commission, were assessed against the following selection criteria which were published on the Centre for Public Appointments website when the vacancy was advertised:</p><p> </p><ul><li>Established reputation as a leader in the field of charity law</li><li>A strong understanding of high risk, high impact or novel legal issues within the charitable sector</li><li>Knowledge of the Commission’s regulatory powers and how it can best fulfil its statutory objectives throughout its operation</li><li>Strong intellectual and analytical ability</li><li>A commitment to and understanding of the charity sector’s effective, independent, proportionate, and impartial regulation</li><li>Personal integrity, demonstrable independence and attitudes consistent with the expectations of senior public office.</li></ul><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 19/01/2018 13:36:49 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

820760

registered interest
date	11/01/2018
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	Charity Commission: Public Appointments
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 people applied for positions in the most recent round of appointments to the board of the Charity Commission.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	122178
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2018 answer text <p>Eleven individuals applied for the Charity Commission Legal Trustee role, which was advertised in the most recent round of appointments to the board of the Charity Commission.</p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 19/01/2018 13:38:24 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

820789

registered interest
date	11/01/2018
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: Carers
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 a carer's policy for its employees; and what other steps his Department has taken to support employees with caring responsibilities.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	122207
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2018 answer text <p>DCMS has a Foster Carers’ &amp; Family and Friends Carers’ Leave policy to support employees who care for children under a fostering or family and friends care arrangement. The DCMS Special leave policy sets out the provision and entitlements to paid special leave and unpaid career breaks to support employees. The department has a Flexible working policy in place to support employees’ work-life balance particularly those with caring responsibilities.</p><p>DCMS has a Care and Share Network which aims to support employees with caring responsibilities. The network has a dedicated intranet page with information about the monthly events. The intranet also has information about the Carer’s passport which is a Charity for Civil Servants initiative to help civil servants with specific caring responsibilities. It is a toolkit to help line managers and carers record information about how the individual’s responsibilities impact their work with agreed solutions to support the individual.</p><p>DCMS employees have access to advice and counselling through the Employee Assistance programme.</p><p>DCMS will be adopting the Carers’ Charter being developed by the Civil Service Employee Policy once this is launched.</p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 19/01/2018 13:40:13 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

820913

registered interest
date	11/01/2018
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	Sports: Young People
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 his Department has made of the level of access to indoor sport facilities for young people living in Lower Layer Super Output Areas.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	122331
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2018 answer text <p>Through the Active Places Power database, Sport England maps community sports facilities, including those in educational establishments. Information on the database is available at the following link, and can be broken down by region <a href="http://www.activeplacespower.com" target="_blank">www.activeplacespower.com</a> .</p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 19/01/2018 13:41:59 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

819873

registered interest
date	10/01/2018
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	Creative Industries Council
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 14 December 2017 to Question 118626, if he will expand the number of industry representatives on the Creative Industries Council to include trade union representation.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	121945
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2018 answer text <p>The review of membership of the Creative Industries Council will take place later in the year. As stated in the previous answer, the review process is led by the Council’s industry co-Chair. Organisations and individuals interested in being involved in the Council’s work can do this through a range of council sub-groups, details of which can be found at <a href="http://www.thecreativeindustries.co.uk/" target="_blank">www.thecreativeindustries.co.uk</a>.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James grouped question UIN 121793 question first answered 15/01/2018 15:07:24 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

819919

registered interest
date	10/01/2018
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 Phones
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 his Department has made of whether mobile phone providers have met their legally binding agreement to provide a mobile phone signal to 90 per cent of the UK’s landmass by the end of 2017.
tabling member constituency	Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk
tabling member printed	John Lamont
uin	121991
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2018 answer text <p>The regulator Ofcom is responsible for enforcing spectrum licence obligations and it is assessing whether mobile network operators have met their licence obligations that were agreed in 2014. Ofcom plans to publish its assessment in early 2018. In 2017 the Government granted Ofcom new powers to issue fines to mobile operators in the event that they do not meet their licence obligations.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James grouped question UIN 121993 121994 question first answered 18/01/2018 13:50:09 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4608 label Biography information for John Lamont

819921

registered interest
date	10/01/2018
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 Phones
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 the agreement with mobile phone providers to provide a mobile phone signal to 90 per cent of the UK’s landmass by the end of 2017 will be enforced.
tabling member constituency	Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk
tabling member printed	John Lamont
uin	121993
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2018 answer text <p>The regulator Ofcom is responsible for enforcing spectrum licence obligations and it is assessing whether mobile network operators have met their licence obligations that were agreed in 2014. Ofcom plans to publish its assessment in early 2018. In 2017 the Government granted Ofcom new powers to issue fines to mobile operators in the event that they do not meet their licence obligations.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James grouped question UIN 121991 121994 question first answered 18/01/2018 13:50:09 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4608 label Biography information for John Lamont

819922

registered interest
date	10/01/2018
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	5G
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 potential merits of strengthening future license conditions for the 5G spectrum auction in order to improve telephone and data signal in remote parts of the UK.
tabling member constituency	Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk
tabling member printed	John Lamont
uin	121994
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2018 answer text <p>The regulator Ofcom is responsible for enforcing spectrum licence obligations and it is assessing whether mobile network operators have met their licence obligations that were agreed in 2014. Ofcom plans to publish its assessment in early 2018. In 2017 the Government granted Ofcom new powers to issue fines to mobile operators in the event that they do not meet their licence obligations.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James grouped question UIN 121991 121993 question first answered 18/01/2018 13:50:09 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4608 label Biography information for John Lamont