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1149221

registered interest
date	15/10/2019
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	Twitter: Disinformation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the Answer of 8 October 2019 to Question 294108, what steps her Department is taking to tackle the circulation of fake content on Twitter.
tabling member constituency	Dudley North
tabling member printed	Ian Austin
uin	457
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2019 answer text <p>I refer the Hon Member to my answer to PQ 294108 from 8th October.</p> answering member constituency Boston and Skegness answering member printed Matt Warman question first answered 21/10/2019 13:57:30 answering member 4361 label Biography information for Matt Warman
tabling member	1511 label Biography information for Lord Austin of Dudley

1149356

registered interest
date	15/10/2019
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	Business: Data Protection
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 estimate her Department has made of the number of data flow contractual clauses which will need to be arranged by businesses in the UK with businesses in the EU in the event that the UK leaves the EU (a) with and (b) without a deal.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
uin	594
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2019 answer text <p>The Government has now agreed the Withdrawal Agreement with the EU. We believe this is the best outcome for all UK sectors. Businesses will not be required to implement standard contractual clauses to ensure the continued free flow of data from the EU/EEA to the UK.</p><p> </p><p>The implementation period will start on 31 October 2019 and last until 31 December 2020. It is important that businesses continue to comply with their existing data protection obligations during this period. There will be no change in compliance responsibilities for organisations or for individual rights. This is because the UK’s Data Protection Act 2018 remains in place and EU laws including the GDPR and Law Enforcement Directive will continue to apply in the UK. This means that personal data can flow from and to the European Economic Area just as before the UK’s exit.</p><p> </p><p>Looking to the future, both the UK Government and the EU have made clear their intention for the EU to have made adequacy decisions with respect of the UK by the end of the implementation period and for the UK to ensure the comparable facilitation of transfers of personal data to the EU, in the same timeframe, if applicable conditions are met. This would mean that data can flow between the UK and EU without organisations having to put in place other data transfer arrangements.</p> answering member constituency Selby and Ainsty answering member printed Nigel Adams question first answered 22/10/2019 15:52:55 answering member 4057 label Biography information for Nigel Adams
tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

1149374

registered interest
date	15/10/2019
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 Media Culture and Sport, whether she has made an assessment of the implications for her policy on commencing Part 3 of the Digital Economy Act 2017 of the 26 September 2019 research by the BBFC in its role as designated age-verification regulator; and when she plans to lay the BBFC guidance on age-verification arrangements.
tabling member constituency	Rotherham
tabling member printed	Sarah Champion
uin	595
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2019 answer text <p>Protecting children is at the heart of our online harms agenda, and is key to wider government priorities. The government published the Online Harms White Paper in April this year. It proposed the establishment of a duty of care on companies to improve online safety, overseen by an independent regulator with strong enforcement powers to deal with non-compliance. Since the White Paper's publication, the government's proposals have continued to develop at pace.</p><p> </p><p>The government has concluded that the objectives of the Digital Economy Act will be best achieved through our wider online harms proposals and, as a consequence, will not be commencing Part 3 of the Digital Economy Act 2017 concerning age verification for online pornography. The Digital Economy Act objectives will be delivered through our proposed online harms regulatory regime which will result in a more coherent approach protecting children. We expect age verification to continue to be a tool used by companies to keep children safe online.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Boston and Skegness answering member printed Matt Warman question first answered 21/10/2019 16:25:46 answering member 4361 label Biography information for Matt Warman
tabling member	4267 label Biography information for Sarah Champion

1149447

registered interest
date	15/10/2019
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	Gardens: Tourism
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 she plans to respond to the recommendations made by the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee in its Fourteenth Report of Session 2017-19 entitled Garden design and tourism, HC 2002.
tabling member constituency	North West Leicestershire
tabling member printed	Andrew Bridgen
uin	620
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2019 answer text <p>We submitted our full response to the Select Committee on October 1st 2019. This was published on October 10th 2019.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 22/10/2019 11:27:42 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4133 label Biography information for Andrew Bridgen

1148832

registered interest
date	14/10/2019
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	Political Parties: Advertising
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 she plans to create a regulator for online political advertising.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
uin	51
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2019 answer text <p>The Government has committed to implementing an imprints regime for digital election material. Our aim is to increase transparency and allow voters to see more information about who has produced election material. We will publish the technical proposals for this regime later this year.</p><p> </p><p>The Cabinet Office is also preparing to launch a consultation on electoral integrity. The scope of this may include increased transparency on digital political advertising; closing loopholes on foreign spending in elections; preventing shell companies from sidestepping current rules on political finance; and action to tackle foreign lobbying. More detail will be brought forward in due course.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, in February this year the Government announced its intention to lead a review of how online advertising is regulated in the UK. This review will identify and address the systematic social and economic challenges that arise from the sector.</p> answering member constituency Selby and Ainsty answering member printed Nigel Adams question first answered 17/10/2019 16:02:12 answering member 4057 label Biography information for Nigel Adams
tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly

1148845

registered interest
date	14/10/2019
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	Civil Society: 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, with reference to page 13 of the Government’s Civil Society Strategy, what progress her Department has made towards working with the Department for Education to develop proposals to help young people play their part in shaping the future of our society.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
uin	311
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2019 answer text <p>Government is committed to providing meaningful opportunities for young people to play their part in society. This includes creating social action opportunities to build their skills and networks outside of school regardless of their background or circumstances.</p><p> </p><p>As announced in the Civil Society Strategy, Government is committed to ensuring that young people have a say in the future of our society. Already, we have set up three youth voice pilot projects to enable young people to shape national policy, including a Youth Steering Group, Young Inspectors Group and a digital youth engagement project. The Youth Steering Group has been working across government to inform policy, including work with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy to conduct a review on environment and climate policy.</p><p> </p><p>In April 2019, government announced that it will be developing a youth offer to set out its vision for young people. Officials have been working closely with Step Up To Serve (SUTS), young people and #iwill campaign and youth sector partners to develop the first stages of this work. DCMS continues to work with all relevant Government Departments across this agenda, in particular the Department for Education.</p><p> </p><p>On 30th September, the Chancellor announced a £500million Youth Investment Fund to support the creation of new youth centres and opportunities for young people. We will be incorporating lessons learnt from the #iwill campaign and Fund into the development of this new programme and will continue to work closely with SUTS and the wider youth sector. It is a priority that the Youth Investment Fund is designed to enable young people to have as much of a say and a choice in what activities are available to them as possible.</p> answering member constituency Loughborough answering member printed Nicky Morgan grouped question UIN 312 question first answered 22/10/2019 18:12:45 answering member 4027 label Biography information for Baroness Morgan of Cotes
tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

1148960

registered interest
date	14/10/2019
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	Social Media: Codes of Practice
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, which social media companies have signed up to the Government code of conduct for social media platforms.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	338
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2019 answer text <p>The Government published the Social Media Code of Practice in April 2019. This statutory guidance sets out actions that social media platforms should take to prevent bullying, insulting, intimidating and humiliating behaviours on their sites. The Code is also relevant to other sites hosting user-generated content and comments.</p><p> </p><p>While many social media companies will meet some of the standards set out in the Code of Practice, the Government has been clear that voluntary action to date has not gone far enough and there is not enough transparency about the effectiveness of different measures. In April we published the Online Harms White Paper, which set out our plans for world-leading legislation to make the UK the safest place in the world to be online. We intend to establish in law a new duty of care on companies towards their users, overseen by an independent regulator. The new regulatory framework will ensure that there is effective oversight of companies’ action to tackle harmful content online.</p> answering member constituency Boston and Skegness answering member printed Matt Warman question first answered 21/10/2019 10:23:58 answering member 4361 label Biography information for Matt Warman
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

1148961

registered interest
date	14/10/2019
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	China Global Television Network
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 Ofcom plans to report on its investigation of whether CGTN's coverage of Hong Kong protests broke broadcasting rules.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	339
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2019 answer text <p>Broadcasting regulation is a matter for Ofcom, as the independent regulator of television and radio. The details of ongoing investigations are not shared with government, as Ofcom must be able to carry out is regulatory duties without interference.</p><p> </p><p>Ofcom has stated publicly that it is currently assessing complaints against China Global Television Network. If, following an investigation, Ofcom finds its rules have been broken, it will take the necessary enforcement action.</p> answering member constituency Selby and Ainsty answering member printed Nigel Adams question first answered 17/10/2019 11:46:56 answering member 4057 label Biography information for Nigel Adams
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

1148977

registered interest
date	14/10/2019
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	Subscriptions: Misrepresentation
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 the Government is taking with the Advertising Standards Authority to ensure subscription services do not mislead consumers into signing up for their services when they make a purchase through a website.
tabling member constituency	Cheltenham
tabling member printed	Alex Chalk
uin	348
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2019 answer text <p>Advertising in the UK is regulated by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), which enforces the Code of Non-broadcast Advertising and Direct &amp; Promotional Marketing (CAP Code) in non-broadcast media, including online, print, outdoors, video-on-demand, direct marketing and cinema, through a system of self-regulation.</p><p> </p><p>The CAP Code incorporates all relevant legislation, and sets standards for accuracy and honesty to which advertisers must adhere, including specific conditions on advertising to children, causing offence and social responsibility. It is regularly reviewed and updated by the industry to ensure it remains effective, and proposed changes to the Code are routinely subject to public consultation.</p><p> </p><p>The Code includes rules designed to ensure that advertisers do not mislead consumers, reflecting that the ASA is recognised by the government, the courts and Trading Standards as the ‘established means’ for the enforcement of misleading advertising legislation. On the specific issue of subscription traps, the Code also includes rules designed to ensure that advertising for promotions must state all significant conditions likely to affect a consumer’s decision to participate in the promotion. The ASA has also published guidance to advertisers on how to ensure that advertising of free trials and other promotional offer subscription models are compliant with the Code.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Selby and Ainsty answering member printed Nigel Adams question first answered 22/10/2019 14:55:50 answering member 4057 label Biography information for Nigel Adams
tabling member	4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk

1148994

registered interest
date	14/10/2019
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	Government Departments: Digital Technology
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 the Government has made in it's proposal to reduce the duplication of citizen data across Government as stated in the Government Transformation Strategy 2017-2020.
tabling member constituency	Leigh
tabling member printed	Jo Platt
uin	355
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2019 answer text <p>The GDPR and Data Protection Act came into effect in 2018 and enshrines key principles of purpose limitation and data minimisation in the processing of personal data. Government is currently preparing a statutory code of practice for government departments and public sector organisations to provide guidance on compliance with GDPR.</p><p> </p><p>Additionally, in May this year, the Government Digital Service updated their Digital Service Standards. These standards are publicly available and give users permission to copy, distribute and use technology freely or at a low cost avoiding the need for duplication across government. Furthermore we will publish a National Data Strategy, which will set out how government will improve its approach to the handling and use of data.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Selby and Ainsty answering member printed Nigel Adams question first answered 22/10/2019 14:59:13 answering member 4057 label Biography information for Nigel Adams
tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt