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1048075

registered interest
date	25/01/2019
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	Cybercrime: EU Action
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 sections 4 and 5 of the Network and Information Systems Regulations 2018, what assurances he has received that GCHQ will be able to (a) continue to liaise and (b) cooperate with the EU Cyber Coordination Group in the event that the UK leaves the EU without a deal.
tabling member constituency	Leigh
tabling member printed	Jo Platt
uin	212678
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2019 answer text <p>The Political Declaration between the United Kingdom and the European Union reaffirms the commitment of both parties to a dialogue around cyber security including the exchange of information on a range of threats, incidents, techniques and best practice. Regarding the Network and Information Systems Regulations 2018, the Government aims to continue to participate in certain Cooperation Group activities after we leave the EU.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 30/01/2019 16:32:38 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

1048076

registered interest
date	25/01/2019
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	Lotteries: Charities
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 benefits to charities of the prize limit on society lotteries (a) increasing and (b) increasing to £1 million.
tabling member constituency	Witham
tabling member printed	Priti Patel
uin	212617
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2019 answer text <p>The De Minimis Assessment which accompanied the society lotteries reform consultation outlined the assessments made of the benefits to good causes of the proposals to increase sales and prize limits, including increasing the per draw prize limit to £1 million (link: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/720931/society_lottery_dma_pdf_final.pdf).</p><p> </p><p>The assessment shows that increasing these limits in line with the Government’s preferred options is likely to increase the amount of money charities and others can raise for the good causes they support. We are not in a position to quantify this at present, as we do not know how many large society lotteries will increase their sales and prize limits, or change their business models to account for the changes being proposed.</p><p> </p><p>I am currently considering the views expressed in the consultation, from meeting with stakeholders and members, including those in favour and those against these reforms, and I hope to respond in the first half of the year. I am happy to have further meetings with the Rt Hon Member and others before our response is published.</p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies grouped question UIN 212618 212619 question first answered 30/01/2019 12:17:12 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel

1048077

registered interest
date	25/01/2019
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	Lotteries
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 potential benefit to good causes of regulatory reforms to society lotteries.
tabling member constituency	Witham
tabling member printed	Priti Patel
uin	212618
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2019 answer text <p>The De Minimis Assessment which accompanied the society lotteries reform consultation outlined the assessments made of the benefits to good causes of the proposals to increase sales and prize limits, including increasing the per draw prize limit to £1 million (link: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/720931/society_lottery_dma_pdf_final.pdf).</p><p> </p><p>The assessment shows that increasing these limits in line with the Government’s preferred options is likely to increase the amount of money charities and others can raise for the good causes they support. We are not in a position to quantify this at present, as we do not know how many large society lotteries will increase their sales and prize limits, or change their business models to account for the changes being proposed.</p><p> </p><p>I am currently considering the views expressed in the consultation, from meeting with stakeholders and members, including those in favour and those against these reforms, and I hope to respond in the first half of the year. I am happy to have further meetings with the Rt Hon Member and others before our response is published.</p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies grouped question UIN 212617 212619 question first answered 30/01/2019 12:17:12 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel

1048078

registered interest
date	25/01/2019
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	Lotteries
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 representations he has received opposing (a) reforms to society lotteries and (b) proposals to raise the maximum prize limit to £1 million.
tabling member constituency	Witham
tabling member printed	Priti Patel
uin	212619
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2019 answer text <p>The De Minimis Assessment which accompanied the society lotteries reform consultation outlined the assessments made of the benefits to good causes of the proposals to increase sales and prize limits, including increasing the per draw prize limit to £1 million (link: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/720931/society_lottery_dma_pdf_final.pdf).</p><p> </p><p>The assessment shows that increasing these limits in line with the Government’s preferred options is likely to increase the amount of money charities and others can raise for the good causes they support. We are not in a position to quantify this at present, as we do not know how many large society lotteries will increase their sales and prize limits, or change their business models to account for the changes being proposed.</p><p> </p><p>I am currently considering the views expressed in the consultation, from meeting with stakeholders and members, including those in favour and those against these reforms, and I hope to respond in the first half of the year. I am happy to have further meetings with the Rt Hon Member and others before our response is published.</p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies grouped question UIN 212617 212618 question first answered 30/01/2019 12:17:12 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel

1047723

registered interest
date	24/01/2019
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	Public Sector: Cybersecurity
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 proposed UK Cyber Security Council will reduce public sector cyber skills shortages.
tabling member constituency	Leigh
tabling member printed	Jo Platt
uin	212452
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2019 answer text <p>As set out in the initial Cyber Security Skills Strategy 2018, creating a new UK Cyber Security Council is one of a number of initiatives that aims to increase cyber security capacity and capability across the whole economy.</p><p> </p><p>Our ambition is for the Council to bring greater coherence to the existing cyber security professional landscape, ultimately helping both those looking for cyber security jobs and those looking to fill cyber security vacancies across the public sector and wider economy.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 29/01/2019 18:02:58 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

1047797

registered interest
date	24/01/2019
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	Civil Society
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 71 of the Civil Society Strategy published in August 2018, what steps the Government has taken to work with civil society, the Electoral Commission and the Charity Commission to explore what other non-legislative steps could strengthen civil society’s confidence in its campaigning and advocacy role.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
uin	212372
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2019 answer text <p>The Civil Society Strategy is long term, setting out our vision for government’s work with and for civil society over the next 10 years and beyond. The Strategy acknowledged the importance of the campaigning and advocacy role of civil society. Early discussions have already taken place with the Charity Commission and the Electoral Commission on what more could be done to improve civil society’s confidence in its campaigning and advocacy role.</p><p> </p><p>Our resources are currently focused on other priorities from the Civil Society Strategy and on preparing for EU exit, but the intention remains to work with charities and regulators to take forward this important recommendation in due course.</p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 29/01/2019 17:26:39 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1047800

registered interest
date	24/01/2019
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	Civil Society
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 71 of the Civil Society Strategy published in August 2018, when his Department will convene a cross-government group to work with civil society to establish the principles of effective engagement in the policymaking process, learning from the examples of good practice that already exist.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
uin	212373
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2019 answer text <p>The Civil Society Strategy is long term, setting out our vision for government’s work with and for civil society over the next 10 years and beyond. Our resources are currently focused on other priorities from the Civil Society Strategy and on preparing for EU exit. This is an important recommendation in the Strategy and one that we would hope to turn our attention to later this year.</p><p> </p><p>DCMS is already leading the way in enabling effective youth participation in national policy making and the department is pioneering approaches which can be adopted across government. These include a Civil Society Youth Steering Group to oversee the development and implementation of policies affecting young people in the Civil Society Strategy; a national Young Commissioners and Inspectors Group to involve young people directly and meaningfully in the commissioning, monitoring and evaluation of national programmes affecting young people; exploring a new digital solution to enable large numbers of young people to play a role in consultations and programme design across the government. DCMS expects to announce the partnership of organisations which will be leading delivery of these commitments shortly.</p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 29/01/2019 17:27:46 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1047802

registered interest
date	24/01/2019
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	Civil Society
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 107 of the Civil Society Strategy, published in August 2018, what steps his Department has taken to support the spread of Citizen Commissioners.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
uin	212374
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2019 answer text <p>The Civil Society Strategy is a forward-looking long-term strategy, which we are looking to build on. We are currently promoting the concept of Citizen Commissioners to stakeholders at appropriate meetings and events. We have held discussions with those currently running Citizen Commissioner schemes to understand content options for possible guidance. We will further engage with target audiences in the future to further define and understand needs and options.</p><p> </p><p>The Commissioning Academy also continues to bring together public sector decision makers to learn about commissioning and public service transformation, including how to effectively co-design, co-produce, and co-deliver services with the communities they serve.</p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 29/01/2019 18:01:50 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1047804

registered interest
date	24/01/2019
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	Third Sector
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 107 of the Civil Society Strategy, published in August 2018, what steps his Department has taken to share the lessons learned by local authorities who are leading the way in co-designing, co-producing and co-delivering their services with users and their local communities.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
uin	212375
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2019 answer text <p>Through our Enabling Social Action programme, we are supporting local authorities to co-design, co-produce and co-deliver their services with users and their local communities. So far we have delivered three national learning events, selected four regional champions, set up action learning partnerships with six local authorities, and shared learning with a peer network of over 900 commissioners, civil society organisations and councillors across the country.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 29/01/2019 17:32:32 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

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