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1386282

registered interest
date	08/12/2021
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	Broadband: Infrastructure
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 she will publish a timeframe for the implementation of the £5.5 billion investment in broadband infrastructure services announced in 2020.
tabling member constituency	Ogmore
tabling member printed	Chris Elmore
uin	89632
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2021 answer text <p>The Government has committed £5 billion to support the delivery of Project Gigabit. Our objectives are for gigabit-capable broadband to be available to at least 85% of premises by 2025 and for coverage to reach almost all premises as soon as possible thereafter. We are on track to meet these objectives and gigabit coverage is now at 63%, up from 9% in 2019. We will continue to publish regular updates on the Project Gigabit delivery plan.</p> answering member constituency Hornchurch and Upminster answering member printed Julia Lopez question first answered 13/12/2021 16:11:23 answering member 4647 label Biography information for Julia Lopez
tabling member	4572 label Biography information for Chris Elmore

1386283

registered interest
date	08/12/2021
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	Broadband: Infrastructure
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 press release of 3 December 2021 entitled Building Digital UK to become executive agency of DCMS, what assessment she has made of how that reform will improve the delivery of investment in broadband infrastructure.
tabling member constituency	Ogmore
tabling member printed	Chris Elmore
uin	89633
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2021 answer text <p>Building Digital UK (BDUK) has historically delivered spending commitments as a directorate within the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.</p><p>However, the government’s agenda for broadband infrastructure has scaled up dramatically, to include the ambitious £5bn Project Gigabit investment. Establishing BDUK as an Executive Agency will drive further effective delivery through:</p><ol><li><p>Governance and accountability: As an Executive Agency, the BDUK Board will be formalised and chaired by a Non Executive and comprise a Non Executive majority. This will ensure BDUK receives expert independent challenge and advice. Accountability will remain within the central department; DCMS will robustly challenge and hold BDUK to account.</p></li></ol><ol start="2"><li><p>Operational autonomy: BDUK will have pre-defined operational autonomy to focus on the capabilities and processes essential to the delivery of its commitments, whilst DCMS will provide an appropriate level of oversight and second line assurance.</p></li></ol><p>Furthermore, this transition will enable BDUK to expand its operations to create new jobs, boost economic growth and level up communities that are most in need.</p><p>The intention is for BDUK to be established as an Executive Agency in April 2022, at the start of the new financial year, ahead of a significant ramp up in programme delivery planned in 2022/23. Following the launch of the Executive Agency in April 2022, BDUK and DCMS will follow a ‘glide path’ or transitioning period through the first half of 2022/23 to embed ‘end state’ ways of working.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hornchurch and Upminster answering member printed Julia Lopez question first answered 15/12/2021 09:01:11 answering member 4647 label Biography information for Julia Lopez
tabling member	4572 label Biography information for Chris Elmore

1386294

registered interest
date	08/12/2021
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	Gambling: Regulation
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 she will make it her policy to undertake regular reviews of the gambling sector to ensure that policy, regulation, stakes and prizes are kept up to date.
tabling member constituency	Northampton South
tabling member printed	Andrew Lewer
uin	89655
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2021 answer text <p>As part of its broad scope, our Gambling Act Review call for evidence included questions on the rules governing land based gambling and the need to ensure an equitable approach to the regulation of the online and the land based industries.</p><p>We are carefully considering all the evidence submitted and a white paper setting out our next steps and proposals for reform will be published in due course.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 89656 89657 question first answered 13/12/2021 16:13:34 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4659 label Biography information for Andrew Lewer

1386295

registered interest
date	08/12/2021
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	Gambling
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 she will take in the forthcoming gambling White Paper to support the land-based amusements sector.
tabling member constituency	Northampton South
tabling member printed	Andrew Lewer
uin	89656
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2021 answer text <p>As part of its broad scope, our Gambling Act Review call for evidence included questions on the rules governing land based gambling and the need to ensure an equitable approach to the regulation of the online and the land based industries.</p><p>We are carefully considering all the evidence submitted and a white paper setting out our next steps and proposals for reform will be published in due course.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 89655 89657 question first answered 13/12/2021 16:13:34 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4659 label Biography information for Andrew Lewer

1386299

registered interest
date	08/12/2021
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	Travel Restrictions: Coronavirus
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 Secretary of State for Health and Social Care's Oral Statement on 6 December 2021 on Covid-19 Update, Official Report, columns 56-58, if sector-specific support will be made available to the travel and tourism sector affected by the introduction of covid-19 travel restrictions.
tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
tabling member printed	Kim Leadbeater
uin	89704
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2021 answer text <p>The Government has put in place a measured and proportionate set of restrictions to continue to support the tourism sector and slow the spread of the new Omicron variant. To support businesses through this next phase, the ‘Working Safely’ guidance will continue to provide advice on sensible precautions employers can take to manage risk and support their staff and customers.</p><p>In other tourism sectors, such as hospitality, the guidance says that businesses are exempt from enforcing customers to wear masks and this assessment has been made from a practical point of view as the nature of hospitality visits is to eat and drink.</p><p>The Government has continued to provide support to the tourism sector throughout the pandemic. The latest budget announcement included a new temporary business rates relief for over 90% of eligible retail, hospitality and leisure businesses in England which will cut at least 50% off their business rates bills during the 2022-23 period which is worth almost £1.7 billion.</p><p>The arts and culture sector can still access support from the £2 billion Culture Recovery Fund and Sports Recovery Package, the Film and TV Production Restart Scheme in place until 30 April 2022. While the £800m Live Events Reinsurance Scheme is giving events across the country the confidence needed for organisers to plan for the future.</p><p>The Health Secretary was clear these new COVID-19 measures are temporary, the government will keep these measures under review and set out detail shortly.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 17/12/2021 15:36:54 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	4923 label Biography information for Kim Leadbeater

1386301

registered interest
date	08/12/2021
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	Gaming Machines
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 she will make an assessment of the potential merits of supporting new types of amusement machine through the Gambling Act review to enable that industry to innovate and add to its low-stake, low prize offer.
tabling member constituency	Northampton South
tabling member printed	Andrew Lewer
uin	89657
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2021 answer text <p>As part of its broad scope, our Gambling Act Review call for evidence included questions on the rules governing land based gambling and the need to ensure an equitable approach to the regulation of the online and the land based industries.</p><p>We are carefully considering all the evidence submitted and a white paper setting out our next steps and proposals for reform will be published in due course.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 89655 89656 question first answered 13/12/2021 16:13:34 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4659 label Biography information for Andrew Lewer

1386315

registered interest
date	08/12/2021
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: Theft
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 of her Department's (a) laptops, (b) mobile phones, (c) memory sticks and (d) external hard drives have been lost or stolen in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
tabling member printed	Sarah Olney
uin	89642
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2021 answer text <p>The following table includes the number of lost/stolen devices in DCMS in the last five years.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>2019</p></td><td><p>2020</p></td><td><p>2021</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Laptops</p></td><td><p>No Data available</p></td><td><p>34</p></td><td><p>15</p></td><td><p>199</p></td><td><p>17</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Mobile phones</p></td><td><p>No Data available</p></td><td><p>13</p></td><td><p>29</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>12</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Memory sticks</p></td><td><p>No Data available</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>External hard drives</p></td><td><p>No Data available</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>All departmental IT has device encryption enabled, at rest is fully security encrypted.</p><p>The departmental security unit records and investigates each reported loss from the Department. If appropriate, the police are invited to undertake further inquiries.</p><p>Any mobile device reported as lost is immediately and remotely deactivated and the contents deleted. The user account on any laptop reported as lost is immediately and remotely locked.</p><p>There has been no data loss or compromise as a result of these losses.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hornchurch and Upminster answering member printed Julia Lopez question first answered 16/12/2021 17:30:41 answering member 4647 label Biography information for Julia Lopez
tabling member	4591 label Biography information for Sarah Olney

1386402

registered interest
date	08/12/2021
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	Arts: Finance
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 she is taking to provide funding to support the arts.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	89620
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2021 answer text <p>DCMS is committed to supporting arts and culture across the country. This commitment is evident in the recent Spending Round, where it was announced that Arts Council England will be receiving over £375 million of taxpayer funding in 2021/22.</p><p>In November 2021 we also announced that 925 arts, heritage and cultural organisations would benefit from the third round of the Culture Recovery Fund (CRF) – the largest ever investment in the arts in the UK’s history. In total, over £1.3 billion has now been allocated from the CRF which has helped around 5,000 individual organisations and sites to date.</p><p>The Government wants everybody to benefit from arts and culture, and will continue to put forward the strongest case for robust funding at future fiscal events.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 20/12/2021 15:19:36 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1386403

registered interest
date	08/12/2021
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	Arts: Finance
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 he has made of the amount of funding allocated to arts in each of the last twenty years.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	89621
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/12/2021 answer text <p>Details of arts funding for the last twenty years are published in DCMS’s Annual Reports and Accounts which are available on gov.uk.</p><p>Last year the Government announced the unprecedented Culture Recovery Fund – the biggest arts funding package in our country’s history. To date, over £1.5 billion has been allocated from the fund, reaching over 5,000 organisations and venues.</p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 22/12/2021 09:35:00 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1386404

registered interest
date	08/12/2021
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	Museums and Galleries: Fees and Charges
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 impact of museum entry fees on access to the arts for low income families.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	89622
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2021 answer text <p>The Government supports free entry to DCMS-sponsored museums, and reiterated this commitment in its 2019 manifesto. The Government also supports free entry to non-national museums through the Museums and Galleries VAT Refund scheme, known as Section 33A. This scheme allows eligible museums and galleries providing free admission to reclaim VAT. Currently over 140 museums across the UK benefit from this tax relief.</p><p>The commitment to free entry to the permanent collections at DCMS-sponsored museums has had a dramatic effect on the total number of visitors. We continue to monitor audience engagement with museums through the Participation Survey (formerly ‘Taking Part’) and Museum Development UK’s Annual Museum Survey which surveys the non-national accredited museums. The 2020 survey found that 54.4% of accredited museums in England charge for admissions and 45.6% are free to enter. The survey tells us there were 17,164 median adult visitors to free-entry museums compared with 13,000 to those that charge or had charged for exhibitions.</p><p>The Government is committed to ensuring that everyone, no matter their background or geographic location, can experience and enjoy the brilliant collections and benefits that our national and regional museums bring. Free entry is just one aspect of this, and we continue to support a wide range of projects and initiatives aimed at improving access to arts and culture through our arm’s-length bodies such as Arts Council England.</p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 20/12/2021 15:15:45 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell