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850645

registered interest
date	27/02/2018
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	BBC: Off-payroll Working
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 hold discussions with the BBC on the accuracy of its tax advice to employees establishing personal service companies and the implications of such companies on an employee's tax liability.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	129898
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2018 answer text <p>Ministers have regular discussions with the BBC on a range of topics. The BBC is operationally independent of government.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 05/03/2018 10:47:21 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

850763

registered interest
date	27/02/2018
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	Cybersecurity: Public 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, what recent assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of the Cyber Essentials scheme in reducing cyber fraud in the public sector.
tabling member constituency	Windsor
tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
uin	129998
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2018 answer text <p>The purpose of the Cyber Essentials scheme is to show all organisations - including those in the public, private and third sectors - how to put basic, technical cyber security measures in place to protect against the most common online threats.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has a much wider programme of activity to protect public sector organisations online, as set out in the National Cyber Security Strategy. One of the core functions of the National Cyber Security Centre is to help protect our critical services from cyber attacks and provide advice to public sector organisations, helping to make the UK the safest place to live and do business online.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 06/03/2018 13:53:31 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

850890

registered interest
date	27/02/2018
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	Broadband: Housing
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 5 February 2018 to Question 125135, on Housing: Broadband, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of that brokered agreement.
tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
tabling member printed	Ged Killen
uin	130108
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2018 answer text <p>The agreement brokered by DCMS between the Home Builders Federation (HBF) and Openreach offers full fibre broadband to new builds at no cost to the developer when threshold conditions have been met. Virgin and GTC have similar agreements with the HBF. DCMS’s Barrier Busting Task Force are in the process of measuring the impact of these agreements and will report to the Select Committees once that work is complete.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James grouped question UIN 130109 question first answered 06/03/2018 13:51:39 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4672 label Biography information for Ged Killen

850892

registered interest
date	27/02/2018
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	Broadband: Housing
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 5 February 2018 to Question 125135, on Housing: Broadband, if she will make initial reports on the effectiveness of the Government's brokered agreement available to (a) the Housing, Communities and Local Government Select Committee and (b) the Scottish Affairs Select Committee inquiry into digital connectivity in Scotland.
tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
tabling member printed	Ged Killen
uin	130109
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2018 answer text <p>The agreement brokered by DCMS between the Home Builders Federation (HBF) and Openreach offers full fibre broadband to new builds at no cost to the developer when threshold conditions have been met. Virgin and GTC have similar agreements with the HBF. DCMS’s Barrier Busting Task Force are in the process of measuring the impact of these agreements and will report to the Select Committees once that work is complete.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James grouped question UIN 130108 question first answered 06/03/2018 13:51:39 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4672 label Biography information for Ged Killen

850940

registered interest
date	27/02/2018
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	Broadband
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 date he expects Wave 3 of the Local Full Fibre Network Challenge Fund to open for applications.
tabling member constituency	East Lothian
tabling member printed	Martin Whitfield
uin	130149
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2018 answer text <p>Wave 2 of the Challenge Fund closed to applications on 26th January 2018. We expect to notify applicants about the successful applications in March 2018 and we anticipate that the next wave of the Challenge Fund will open to applications in the summer of 2018.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 05/03/2018 10:51:44 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4626 label Biography information for Martin Whitfield

850952

registered interest
date	27/02/2018
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	Telecommunications: Complaints
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 (a) detail and (b) quality of Ofcom’s quarterly telecoms complaints data on the ability of consumers to make informed decisions.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	130159
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2018 answer text <p>Ofcom publishes quarterly data on the volume of consumer complaints that it has received against the major providers of telecoms and pay TV services. This, together with Ofcom’s new Comparing Service Quality report, allows consumers to compare companies performance against a variety of different metrics, enabling them to make informed decisions. In addition, in the Digital Economy Act 2017, the government strengthened Ofcom’s powers to require telecoms companies to provide them with information, including on complaints.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 05/03/2018 10:55:05 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

850954

registered interest
date	27/02/2018
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	Telecommunications: Complaints
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 including data from Alternative Dispute Resolution schemes in Ofcom’s quarterly telecoms complaints data to enable consumers to make better informed decisions.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	130160
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2018 answer text <p>Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) schemes in the telecoms sector already publish quarterly data about complaints they receive from each communications provider. Ombudsman Services complaints data can be viewed at : https://www.ombudsman-services.org/for-consumers/complaints-data/communications-complaints-data-2017. Communications &amp; Internet Services Adjudication Scheme (CISAS) complaint data can be viewed at : https://www.cedr.com/cisas/quarterly-case-data/. In addition, Ofcom’s 2017 Comparing Service Quality publication includes a section about ADR complaints (page 61) that can be viewed at: https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0012/100605/comparing-service-quality-report.pdf. This information enables consumers to make better informed decisions.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 05/03/2018 10:53:14 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

850074

registered interest
date	26/02/2018
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	Healthy Living Ministerial Group
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 Inter-Ministerial Group for Healthy Living is next due to meet; and whether that group will consider the correlation between a lack of physical activity by young British girls and their having poorer mental health and lower aspirations than boys.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	129642
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2018 answer text <p>Sporting Future - Second Annual Report published in January confirmed that government is establishing an Inter-Ministerial Group on Healthy Living, to be co-chaired by the Secretaries of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and Health and Social Care, which will bring together a range of departments to consider how sport and physical activity could be made more widely accessible, so that they benefit everyone. The Group will be meeting for the first time in early 2018. Although the initial focus of the Group will be on sport and physical activity over time we expect this to broaden to explore how it can add value to the health inequalities agenda more widely.</p><p> </p><p>The government’s sport strategy Sporting Future published in December 2015 recognised the impact that sport and physical activity has on mental health. We are continuing to work with sport and mental health organisations to promote the benefits of physical activity on mental health to people of all ages and backgrounds.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 06/03/2018 13:33:57 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

850138

registered interest
date	26/02/2018
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	Arts Council England
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 candidates deemed appointable by the most recent appointment panel for the National Council of Arts Council England were not subsequently appointed.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	129706
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2018 answer text <p>The most recent Arts Council appointments campaign was to appoint four Area Chairs (South East Area, South West Area, Midlands Area and North Area) and additional general Council Members to its non-executive Board. Of those who applied for these roles, sixteen candidates were deemed appointable by the Advisory Assessment Panel and from these, ten appointments were subsequently made by Ministers. Six candidates deemed appointable were not appointed to the Arts Council board.</p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis question first answered 01/03/2018 13:33:15 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

850143

registered interest
date	26/02/2018
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	Channel Four Television: Location
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 he plans to announce his decision on whether to relocate Channel 4.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Riverside
tabling member printed	Mrs Louise Ellman
uin	129711
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2018 answer text <p>We have made it clear that Channel 4 must have a major presence outside London. As a publicly owned broadcaster, it is essential that it reflects and provides for the country as a whole. The government is working with Channel 4 on how best it can increase its regional impact, and we will set out next steps in due course.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James grouped question UIN 129712 question first answered 05/03/2018 14:40:25 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	484 label Biography information for Dame Louise Ellman