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1580246

registered interest
date	24/01/2023
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, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of including a complete ban on gambling marketing communications for consumers who have self-excluded or registered with GAMSTOP within forthcoming regulatory changes to the Gambling Act 2005.
tabling member constituency	Blaydon
tabling member printed	Liz Twist
uin	131304
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2023 answer text <p>As a condition of their Gambling Commission licences, all operators must offer self-exclusion procedures for customers, with online operators also required to take part in the GAMSTOP multi-operator self-exclusion scheme. As part of the self-exclusion process, licensees must take all reasonable steps to prevent marketing materials being sent to any self-excluded individual, including removing their details from any marketing database within two days of receiving notice of self-exclusion. If a customer has registered with GAMSTOP, all operators are expected to remove them from marketing lists. Operators who fail to comply with self-exclusion requirements are subject to enforcement action from the Gambling Commission.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 31/01/2023 09:28:17 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
tabling member	4618 label Biography information for Liz Twist

1579527

registered interest
date	23/01/2023
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	Horse Racing
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 her Department is taking to promote British thoroughbred horse (a) racing and (b) breeding internationally.
tabling member constituency	Blackpool South
tabling member printed	Scott Benton
uin	129987
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2023 answer text <p>The Government recognises the significant contribution that racing makes to British sporting culture and its particular importance to the British rural economy.</p><p>In April 2017, we made significant reforms to the Horserace Betting Levy by fixing the Levy rate at 10% and extending the scope of the Horserace Betting Levy to include offshore online bookmakers for the first time. These reforms resulted in Levy income to support the racing industry totalling £83 million in 2018/19. In 2018/19 the Levy returned £83 million and in 2019/20 the Levy returned £97 million to racing. Even with the suspension of racing for a period due to covid the Levy returned £82 million in 2021/22 and then £97 million in 2021/22.</p><p>The Government is committed to review the Horserace Betting Levy by 2024. The department engages regularly with racing stakeholders including the British Horseracing Authority and we will consider carefully any information they provide. The Government will continue to work with the industry and the Levy Board to make sure the benefits of the Horserace Betting Levy are maximised.</p><p>The Sports Economy team within the Department for International Trade (DIT) are actively engaging with the British horse racing industry to discuss their target markets internationally and how they can be supported in these regions. DIT is also working closely with the industry on the best way of attracting international investors into the British thoroughbred market and opportunities in the form of trade missions surrounding major international meetings with a strong UK presence.</p><p>British horseracing and breeding is promoted as part of the GREAT Britain &amp; Northern Ireland campaign, showcasing the best of the UK in over 164 countries across the globe. This recognises the cultural and economic importance of horse racing to the UK and the role it plays as a soft power asset for the country internationally.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully grouped question UIN 129985 129986 question first answered 31/01/2023 09:26:48 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
tabling member	4793 label Biography information for Scott Benton

1579735

registered interest
date	23/01/2023
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	Sport Winter Survival Package
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 19 December 2022 to Question 107201, if he will list the value of the loans made to each of those 15 sports.
tabling member constituency	North West Norfolk
tabling member printed	James Wild
uin	130058
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2023 answer text <p>The Sport Survival Package distributed a total of £264.8 million funding (loan and grant funding) to over 1,685 organisations across 15 sports to ensure their survival throughout the pandemic.</p><p>£218,271,393 was provided through loans to the sports listed below:</p><ul><li>Athletics - £1,200,000</li><li>Basketball - £794,246</li><li>Cycling - £1,387,000</li><li>Football - £13,310,666</li><li>Horse Racing - £21,520,000</li><li>Ice Hockey - £1,601,600</li><li>Motorsport - £1,075,000</li><li>Rugby League - £24,232,661</li><li>Rugby Union - £138,850,220</li><li>Tennis - £14,300,00</li></ul><p> </p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 31/01/2023 12:30:29 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	4787 label Biography information for James Wild

1569062

registered interest
date	20/01/2023
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	Broadcasting Programmes: Crime
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 impact of the dramatisation of true crime events in television and film on the privacy of victims' families.
tabling member constituency	North Down
tabling member printed	Stephen Farry
uin	128729
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2023 answer text <p>The Government is committed to a free and independent media and does not intervene in what can and can not be broadcast, or in the regulation of how content is made.</p><p>Ofcom is required by legislation, and accountable to Parliament, to independently draw up and enforce a Broadcasting Code for television to ensure that audiences are adequately protected from harm. Within this, there are rules in place on fairness and privacy, which are designed to ensure that broadcasters avoid unfair or unjust treatment of individuals and avoid any unwarranted infringement of privacy in programmes.</p><p>Ofcom has responsibility for the Broadcasting Code, including for any amendments, and the Code is kept under continual review. In making any decision, Ofcom has to strike a balance between ensuring freedom of expression and protection from harm.</p><p>Under Ofcom’s Code, broadcasters should try to reduce the potential distress to victims and/or relatives when making or broadcasting programmes intended to examine past events that involve trauma to individuals, including crime, unless it is warranted to do otherwise. This applies to dramatic reconstructions and factual dramas, as well as factual programmes.</p><p>In particular, so far as is reasonably practicable, surviving victims and/or the immediate families of those whose experience is to feature in a programme, should be informed of the plans for the programme and its intended broadcast, even if the events or material to be broadcast have been in the public domain in the past.</p> answering member constituency Hornchurch and Upminster answering member printed Julia Lopez grouped question UIN 128730 question first answered 25/01/2023 17:39:56 answering member 4647 label Biography information for Julia Lopez
tabling member	4856 label Biography information for Stephen Farry

1568724

registered interest
date	19/01/2023
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	Members: Correspondence
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 correspondence of 13 January 2023 from the hon. Member for Sefton Central on an update on the letter from the Minister of 3 November 2021.
tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
uin	127748
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2023 answer text <p>I can confirm that we have received the correspondence of 13 January 2023 and will respond within 20 working days, as per the Cabinet Office guidelines.</p> answering member constituency Hornchurch and Upminster answering member printed Julia Lopez question first answered 25/01/2023 11:07:45 answering member 4647 label Biography information for Julia Lopez
tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

1568867

registered interest
date	19/01/2023
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	Holiday Accommodation
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the resources available to local authorities to process short-term lets licensing and applications.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL4924
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2023 answer text <p>On 7 December 2022, His Majesty’s Government amended the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill to create a power to establish a registration scheme for short-term lets. Further details on how the scheme will operate, including how it will be administered, will be explored through a public consultation which will be published at the earliest opportunity this year.</p> answering member printed Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay question first answered 03/02/2023 14:27:56 answering member 4728 label Biography information for Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

1567721

registered interest
date	17/01/2023
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: Coastal Areas
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 her Department is taking to help (a) Southport and (b) other seaside towns preserve their cultural heritage..
tabling member constituency	Southport
tabling member printed	Damien Moore
uin	125486
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2023 answer text <p>HM Government works to preserve the rich cultural heritage of our seaside towns in many ways, including through the statutory heritage protection system, which recognises heritage assets of national significance and helps to protect them for the nation. There are currently 293 designated heritage assets in Southport, including 281 Listed Buildings.</p><p>Historic England, the Government's statutory adviser on heritage matters, regularly undertakes research and thematic designation projects which focus on recognising and protecting the cultural heritage assets of seaside towns – buildings, venues and other amenities which are often central to the local visitor economy. Historic England is currently working with local partners, such as Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council, on initiatives which will assist in revitalising Southport’s economy and the appreciation and protection of its historic environment.</p><p>Through the High Street Heritage Action Zones programme, HM Government has invested over £23 million in coastal communities, breathing new life into high streets, benefiting local people and businesses, and providing assistance to much-loved historic buildings.</p><p>The recent announcement of the second round of the Levelling Up Fund included a range of projects focused on protecting and celebrating the cultural heritage of seaside towns. These include £50 million for the new major visitor attraction Eden Project North in Morecambe, transforming a derelict site on Morecambe’s seafront to create a world-class cultural and visitor destination. It also includes a £40 million for Blackpool to deliver a new Multiversity, a carbon-neutral, education campus in the Talbot Gateway Central Business District, £19 million to improve access to Bexhill's art deco De La Warr pavilion, and £20 million to renovate Great Yarmouth's North Quay. The announcement also confirmed that there will be a further round of the Levelling Up Fund, providing more opportunity to level up seaside communities and other places across the UK.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 26/01/2023 18:11:00 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	4669 label Biography information for Damien Moore

1567816

registered interest
date	17/01/2023
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	Tourism: EU Nationals
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 promote British holiday destinations to tourists from the EU.
tabling member constituency	East Yorkshire
tabling member printed	Sir Greg Knight
uin	125257
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/01/2023 answer text <p>The government promotes Britain as a holiday destination to tourists from the EU through VisitBritain, the national tourist board. VisitBritain is active in a number of EU countries with in-market teams based in offices in Berlin, Amsterdam, Madrid, Milan, Paris, and Stockholm.</p><p>In February, VisitBritain is launching GREAT’s ‘See Things Differently’ tourism campaign in France, Germany, and Spain with the aim of demonstrating a welcoming, dynamic and diverse story of Britain.</p><p>Later this month, VisitBritain is hosting educational trips for international trade buyers across Britain. The delegations include trade buyers from France, Germany, Netherlands, Italy, and Spain.</p><p>VisitBritian also leads ongoing engagement with the travel trade in Europe, including tour operators and agents, to increase bookable Britain products and promote their sales. This is done via destination training activities such as webinars, and the organisation of sales events in European markets to connect UK tourism businesses with European buyers.</p><p>VisitBritain also undertakes year-round engagement with targeted media outlets in EU markets to pitch stories, as well as a year-round programme of blogger/influencers trips to all parts of Britain, aligned to priority messages and themes.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 20/01/2023 14:40:57 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	1200 label Biography information for Sir Greg Knight

1566471

registered interest
date	12/01/2023
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	Semiconductors: Manufacturing Industries
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 help support a globally competitive semiconductor manufacturing sector in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
uin	122126
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2023 answer text <p>On behalf of the government, DCMS has been reviewing its approach to the UK’s global semiconductor sector and intends to set out its support for the sector in the forthcoming UK Semiconductor Strategy. This will build on existing HMG support for innovation and infrastructure such as the Driving the Electronic Revolution challenge and the National Epitaxy Facility, amongst others.</p><p>Domestically, the government is exploring how we can further support the UK semiconductor industry, protecting and growing existing UK capabilities, and seizing new opportunities - including in semiconductor design, compound chips, and academic research in related fields. We are also collaborating closely with international partners to capitalise and strengthen the UK’s competitive advantage and improve long term resilience within the global semiconductor ecosystem, recognising that the challenges facing the sector cannot be solved by the UK alone.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 18/01/2023 16:47:18 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

1566498

registered interest
date	12/01/2023
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	Digital Technology: Vacancies
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 her Department is taking to tackle skills and labour shortages in digital technology industries.
tabling member constituency	Sunderland Central
tabling member printed	Julie Elliott
uin	122146
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2023 answer text <p>DCMS works with departments across government and with industry to grow the digital workforce, tackle the digital skills gap, and support a diverse range of people into digital roles. Actions taken include the launch of the Digital Skills Council, the introduction of AI and Data Science Conversion Courses, and working with the Home Office on visa routes related to the digital workforce.</p><p>DCMS launched the Digital Skills Council (DiSC) in June 2022. The council has brought together industry leaders and training experts from organisations such as Amazon Web Services and Multiverse. The council works directly with employers and is encouraging investment in employer-led initiatives focused on upskilling the UK workforce, including initiatives related to increasing the number of digital apprenticeships.</p><p>Continuing to develop, attract, and train people to work with Artificial Intelligence (AI) is at the core of our plan for maintaining the UK’s position in this field. In February 2022, DCMS announced the creation of up to 2,000 additional scholarships for students studying AI and Data Science conversion course masters, helping people from underrepresented groups to join the UK’s world-leading AI industry. Along with these conversion courses, DCMS has supported the introduction of Alan Turing Institute AI research fellowships and 16 dedicated Centres at universities across the country to train 1000 extra AI PhDs.</p><p>An important part of developing skills is providing inspiration to young people, which is why DCMS launched the Cyber Explorers youth-inspiration programme, which has engaged over 30,000 young people from more than 2,000 schools. To grow the cyber workforce, DCMS has also introduced the 'Upskill in Cyber' training programme and the CyberFirst interventions, which include bursary offers for undergraduate students. DCMS are currently working with the Behavioural Insights Team to understand how we can improve the perception and understanding of digital subjects, including computer science, AI, and cyber.</p><p>DCMS recognises the importance of improving the diversity of the digital workforce and has supported the Tech Talent Charter since 2016. The Tech Talent Charter is helping to improve the diversity of the digital workforce by improving reporting on diversity statistics and fostering collaboration to create a more diverse tech workforce.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 19/01/2023 16:12:11 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
tabling member	4127 label Biography information for Julie Elliott