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1046854

registered interest
date	23/01/2019
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	Internet: Safety
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’s plans to publish its white paper on internet safety.
tabling member constituency	Livingston
tabling member printed	Hannah Bardell
uin	211824
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2019 answer text <p>The Government plans to publish its Online Harms White Paper this Winter (2018/2019).</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 28/01/2019 17:55:57 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4486 label Biography information for Hannah Bardell

1046857

registered interest
date	23/01/2019
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: Taxation
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 he has plans to introduce a social media levy.
tabling member constituency	Livingston
tabling member printed	Hannah Bardell
uin	211825
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2019 answer text <p>The Government Response to the Internet Safety Strategy noted the Government’s intention to set a new, strategic approach to online safety funding, while maintaining the benefits of current funding streams from the major technology companies. Detailed plans to tackle the full range of online harms will be set out in the forthcoming Online Harms White Paper, including legislative and non-legislative measures.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 28/01/2019 17:56:37 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4486 label Biography information for Hannah Bardell

1046858

registered interest
date	23/01/2019
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	Internet: Safety
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 ensure parents are able to access information on online harms and their prevention.
tabling member constituency	Livingston
tabling member printed	Hannah Bardell
uin	211826
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2019 answer text <p>As set out in the Internet Safety Strategy Green Paper, Government is committed to working with a wide range of partners to ensure that online safety messages are delivered to all users, including parents, through a range of communication channels.</p><p>The forthcoming Online Harms White Paper will set out a wide range of legislative and non-legislative measures to help make the UK the safest place to be online.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 28/01/2019 17:57:57 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4486 label Biography information for Hannah Bardell

1046859

registered interest
date	23/01/2019
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	Internet: Safety
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 effectiveness of technology companies in promoting online safety.
tabling member constituency	Livingston
tabling member printed	Hannah Bardell
uin	211827
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2019 answer text <p>The forthcoming Online Harms White Paper will set clear standards for industry to make sure there is improved support for users online, and that more companies are taking consistent action to tackle online harms.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 28/01/2019 17:58:46 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4486 label Biography information for Hannah Bardell

1046861

registered interest
date	23/01/2019
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	Snooker
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 made an assessment of the economic benefits that major snooker tournaments deliver to host cities and towns.
tabling member constituency	Bournemouth West
tabling member printed	Conor Burns
uin	211698
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2019 answer text <p>Neither DCMS or UK Sport are involved in the bidding for or hosting a snooker events, and as such we do not track or assess the economic or other benefits which such events may bring to the towns and cities hosting them.</p><p> </p><p>According to latest Sport England participation statistics, 23,600 adults took part in snooker at least twice in the last 28 days (May 17-18), which is 0.1% of the population.</p><p> </p><p>Between 1 April 2009 and 31 December 2018, Sport England invested into 37 multi-sport projects, benefitting billiards and snooker to a total award value of £7,411,759 (£224,000 Exchequer and £7,187,759 Lottery). There are also 9 multi-sport projects involving snooker currently at various stages of assessment. These include 8 Community Asset Fund and 1 Small Grants applications.</p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 31/01/2019 15:27:08 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	3922 label Biography information for Sir Conor Burns

1046921

registered interest
date	23/01/2019
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	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport: Civil Servants
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 corrected Answer of 22 January 2019 to Question 206251, how many civil servants in his Department were working part or full-time on projects in the Government Major Projects Portfolio in (a) June 2016 and (b) December 2018.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	211645
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2019 answer text <p>The GMPP is a continually evolving portfolio of the government’s most complex and high risk projects. Direct comparisons of the GMPP across years should therefore be treated with caution. Projects join and leave the GMPP throughout the year and it is therefore likely that a simple comparison across two time points will refer to different sets of projects.</p><p> </p><p>At the end of June 2016 (i.e. the end of the Quarter 1 reporting period for 2016-17), 58.8 officials in DCMS were working on GMPP projects.</p><p> </p><p>GMPP data for December 2018 (Q3 2018/19) has not yet been cleared and finalised. At the end of September 2018 (i.e. the latest submitted data, at end of the Quarter 2 reporting period for 2018-19), 127.5 officials in DCMS were working on GMPP projects.</p><p> </p><p>This data refers to public sector employees, defined as those who are directly in the employment of the Civil or Crown Service, local government or Arms’ Length Body at the relevant snapshot date, including seconded members of staff who join the team as Civil, Crown or Public servants.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 31/01/2019 12:01:11 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1047008

registered interest
date	23/01/2019
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	Domestic Visits: Northern Ireland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, on what dates he plans to visit Northern Ireland in 2019.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	211681
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2019 answer text <p>I am planning to visit Northern Ireland in March, subject to ministerial duties.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 01/02/2019 14:31:07 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1047097

registered interest
date	23/01/2019
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	Cultural Heritage: Museums and Galleries
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 make an estimate of the proportion of artefacts in national museums which have never been on public display.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	211669
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2019 answer text <p>It is estimated that together the fifteen DCMS-sponsored museums care for over 100 million objects. These institutions are engaged in an active programme of object loans, touring exhibitions and research programmes and in 2017/18 lent to over 1,300 venues in the UK. This allows millions of people throughout the UK to access the world class collections held by the national museums.</p><p>The department does not hold information on what proportion of objects in the national museums’ collections have never been on display and it is not possible to estimate.</p><p>The national museums provide further public access to their stored collections through their websites, publishing images, catalogue entries and interpretation and direct access.</p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis question first answered 28/01/2019 17:53:08 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

1047112

registered interest
date	23/01/2019
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	News UK
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 his Department’s invitation to comment on a request to accept undertakings in place of conditions relating News Corp UK and Ireland Limited’s acquisition of The Times and The Sunday Times newspapers in 1981 published on 19 January 2019, whether the proposals submitted to his Department seek to vary the existing condition of a criminal offence if the undertakings are breached as currently stated under section 62 of the Fair Trading Act 1973.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Tom Watson
uin	211688
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2019 answer text <p>The pre-2003 newspaper merger regime, set out in the Fair Trading Act 1973 (FTA 1973), including the criminal offence in section 62 of the FTA 1973 for breaches of conditions, was repealed in 2003. The regime was replaced by the regime set out in the Enterprise Act 2002 which allows the Secretary of State to intervene in certain newspaper and media merger cases that raise public interest concerns.</p><p> </p><p>The Communications Act 2003 gives the Secretary of State powers to vary conditions by accepting new undertakings in place of the previous conditions. Where new undertakings are accepted, they are subject to the monitoring and enforcement provisions under the 2002 Enterprise Act in place of penalties under the FTA 1973. This enables the Secretary of State to make enforcement orders if they consider an undertaking has not been fulfilled, or will not be fulfilled.</p><p> </p><p>If an enforcement order is not complied with the Secretary of State or the Competition and Markets Authority can bring proceedings for an injunction. If a party did not comply with an injunction this would amount to contempt of court, which can be punished by a fine or imprisonment.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 28/01/2019 19:11:05 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

1045884

registered interest
date	22/01/2019
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	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport: Sikhs
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 Sikhs are employed in his Department; and whether they are recorded as (a) an ethnic or (b) religious group.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
uin	211329
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2019 answer text <p>At the 31st December 2018, fewer than 10 civil servants in my Department were recorded as being Sikhs, as a religious group.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The Department encourages all of its employees to provide details of their personal diversity information. This action is voluntary and information is captured via employee input onto the HR system. The department’s declaration rate for religion is 67%.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 30/01/2019 18:00:12 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill