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1506192

registered interest
date	08/09/2022
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: 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, how many cases of (a) criminal gangs, (b) drug dealing, (c) modern slavery or (d) sexual exploitation operating in short term holiday lets were recorded in England in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	49718
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/09/2022 answer text <p>The sharing economy has brought many benefits to the tourism sector and wider economy, as well as creating an additional income stream for homeowners. However, we recognise that the increase in short-term letting has also prompted some concerns. These include the impact on the housing market and local communities, and a sense that new entrants in the market are not being held to the same health and safety standards as, for example, hotels and B&amp;Bs.</p><p>The Government committed in the Tourism Recovery Plan published in June last year to consider a possible Tourist Accommodation Registration Scheme in England. As a first step in this process, a Call for Evidence was published on 29 June and runs until 21 September.</p><p>We want to hear from a wide range of stakeholders, including local authorities, in order to build a much-needed evidence base on these issues and enable us to develop proportionate policy responses for a future consultation. We ideally want to strike a balance between the benefits of the sharing economy and addressing the concerns of the impact on some communities, alongside ensuring consistency in quality among the range of different tourism accommodation providers.</p><p>The Home Office does not collect data specifically in relation to short term holiday lets for the offences listed.</p> answering member constituency Hornchurch and Upminster answering member printed Julia Lopez grouped question UIN 49719 question first answered 22/09/2022 14:01:46 answering member 4647 label Biography information for Julia Lopez
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1506193

registered interest
date	08/09/2022
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: 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, with reference to the potential use of short term holiday lets for illegal activities, whether she has had recent discussions with Cabinet colleagues on the potential merits of licencing short term holiday lets.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	49719
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/09/2022 answer text <p>The sharing economy has brought many benefits to the tourism sector and wider economy, as well as creating an additional income stream for homeowners. However, we recognise that the increase in short-term letting has also prompted some concerns. These include the impact on the housing market and local communities, and a sense that new entrants in the market are not being held to the same health and safety standards as, for example, hotels and B&amp;Bs.</p><p>The Government committed in the Tourism Recovery Plan published in June last year to consider a possible Tourist Accommodation Registration Scheme in England. As a first step in this process, a Call for Evidence was published on 29 June and runs until 21 September.</p><p>We want to hear from a wide range of stakeholders, including local authorities, in order to build a much-needed evidence base on these issues and enable us to develop proportionate policy responses for a future consultation. We ideally want to strike a balance between the benefits of the sharing economy and addressing the concerns of the impact on some communities, alongside ensuring consistency in quality among the range of different tourism accommodation providers.</p><p>The Home Office does not collect data specifically in relation to short term holiday lets for the offences listed.</p> answering member constituency Hornchurch and Upminster answering member printed Julia Lopez grouped question UIN 49718 question first answered 22/09/2022 14:01:46 answering member 4647 label Biography information for Julia Lopez
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1506019

registered interest
date	07/09/2022
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	Cooperatives and Social Enterprises: Government Assistance
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 plans she has to help to grow (a) cooperatives and (b) social businesses.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	49195
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/09/2022 answer text <p>The Government strongly supports the co-operative sector and social businesses’ contribution to society and the economy. Co-operatives and mutuals contribute to the diversity and resilience of the economy with their democratic structure, their emphasis on the long-term interests of their members and their local focus and commitment. Social businesses create jobs for those excluded from the labour market, directly address social challenges and build social capital within communities.</p><p>The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport works with the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and other relevant departments to ensure that government policy helps cooperatives and social businesses to grow and flourish.</p><p>The Government has cut the red tape facing the sector through the Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies Act 2014 and subsequent regulations. More recently, the government has reaffirmed our commitment to the sector through the £150 million community ownership fund, which supports co-operatives and community-owned businesses to take over valuable and viable local assets at risk of closure.</p><p>DCMS’s support for social businesses includes:</p><ul><li><p>£485 million of dormant assets funding that has been allocated to social investment, which to date has supported thousands of charities and social enterprises across England to grow their impact and scale their operations</p></li><li><p>developing the Social Value Model, in partnership with Cabinet Office - requiring social value to be evaluated in all central government procurement</p></li><li><p>launching the VCSE Contract Readiness Fund - inviting bids to enable VCSE organisations to compete alongside other organisations and increase their participation in public service procurement</p></li></ul><p>Work is also underway on plans to meet the following commitment from the Levelling Up White Paper:</p><p>“The UK Government will consider how best to encourage social organisations and entrepreneurship to flourish in left-behind places across the UK, building on and augmenting existing support, generating evidence on what social enterprises need to do to thrive in disadvantaged places, and encouraging the next generation of social entrepreneurs.”</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 23/09/2022 13:24:44 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1505577

registered interest
date	06/09/2022
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	TikTok: Data Protection
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 her Department has made an assessment of the (a) safety and (b) security of Tik Tok’s ability to track typed text inputs, clicked links, keystrokes, and screen taps.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	48331
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/09/2022 answer text <p>The UK has strong safeguards and enforcement regimes to ensure that data is collected and handled responsibly and securely. Companies registered in the UK are subject to our legal framework and regulatory jurisdiction.</p><p>Wherever they are in the world, organisations that process the personal data of individuals in the UK for the purposes of providing goods and services or monitoring behaviour must comply with the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA18). Organisations which fail to comply may be investigated by the Information Commissioner’s Office and where appropriate subject to enforcement action, including fines.</p><p>The Government is improving the privacy and security of all apps, including through an upcoming Code of Practice which sets baseline security and privacy requirements for app developers and app store operators.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Folkestone and Hythe answering member printed Damian Collins question first answered 21/09/2022 08:23:42 answering member 3986 label Biography information for Damian Collins
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1504823

registered interest
date	05/09/2022
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	Unboxed
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how much money they have invested in Unboxed: The Festival of Brexit; how many people have attended the festival to date; and what analysis they have made of value for money for the taxpayer.
tabling member printed	Lord Black of Brentwood
uin	HL2068
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/09/2022 answer text <p>UNBOXED: Creativity in the UK is a £120 million UK-wide celebration of creativity and innovation delivered through 10 major commissions. It is not called the ‘Festival of Brexit’.</p><p>Latest figures show that to date over three million people have engaged with UNBOXED, physically and digitally, and this number will only increase during the last two months of live programming, with two major commissions still to launch.</p><p>A departmental <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1097952/Unboxed_Accounting_Officer_Assessment_Letter.pdf" target="_blank">Accounting Officer Assessment</a> for the programme was published on 12 August. It stated that our pre-delivery assessment of the costs and benefits for UNBOXED showed the programme would be value for money, even where some expected benefits are not monetisable. DCMS has kept the programme under review to ensure that it remains value for money.</p><p>There is also an independent evaluation of the programme underway. This will consider areas such as job creation; training, development and volunteering opportunities offered; the number of people who experience UNBOXED in person and online; and the number of participants in the learning and engagement programmes delivered by the creative teams across the country. It will be published in early 2023.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Kamall question first answered 22/09/2022 10:28:10 answering member 4909 label Biography information for Lord Kamall attachment 1 file name Unboxed_Accounting_Officer_Assessment_Letter.pdf title Unboxed Accounting Officer Assessment Letter
tabling member	4171 label Biography information for Lord Black of Brentwood

1490399

registered interest
date	18/07/2022
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: Television Channels
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 (a) her Department and (b) Ofcom have made of the impact on low income households without broadband of broadcast TV channels, including CBBC and other public service broadcast channels from the BBC, going online only.
tabling member constituency	Mitcham and Morden
tabling member printed	Siobhain McDonagh
uin	38491
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2022 answer text <p>The BBC is operationally and editorially independent from the government, and decisions over its spending and services are a matter for the BBC. We recognise the BBC, just like individual households, businesses and other organisations across the UK, is having to make difficult financial decisions.</p><p>However, the government is clear that the BBC must continue to deliver its Mission and Public Purposes, which includes providing high quality, distinctive content and services. The BBC must also comply with the requirements in their Operating Licence, as set and regulated independently by Ofcom. This includes ensuring an amount of children's television is shown prominently on television.</p><p>We note that Ofcom is currently conducting a public consultation on a new Operating Licence to give the BBC greater flexibility to deliver its Mission and Public Purposes rather than having to meet specific quantitative quotas. We will continue to discuss Ofcom’s proposals with them as the consultation progresses.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Boston and Skegness answering member printed Matt Warman question first answered 25/07/2022 14:06:24 answering member 4361 label Biography information for Matt Warman
tabling member	193 label Biography information for Dame Siobhain McDonagh

1488005

registered interest
date	11/07/2022
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: EU Countries
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 the Government has made of the effect of the change to visa rules on the creative industry following the UK's departure from the EU.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	33876
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2022 answer text <p>The Government recognises that the way creative workers work in the EU has changed, and the sector will need to adapt to new requirements as the UK is no longer in the EU. The Government is committed to supporting the sector to adapt to these new arrangements, and we have worked with the sector and directly with Member States to clarify what creative workers need to do.</p><p>EU Member States are principally responsible for deciding the rules governing what work UK visitors can undertake in each Member State. That is why we have engaged with EU Member States and, from these discussions, almost all Member States have confirmed they offer visa and work permit free routes for creative performers.</p><p>The UK’s domestic rules allow musicians, entertainers and artists (and their technical staff) from non-visa national countries, such as EU Member States and the US, to perform in the UK without requiring a visa, and the UK does not require work permits.</p><p>We have continued to engage with the creative sectors to help understand the impact of these changes on the creative sectors.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Boston and Skegness answering member printed Matt Warman question first answered 14/07/2022 07:34:17 answering member 4361 label Biography information for Matt Warman
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

1486034

registered interest
date	04/07/2022
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	Rescue Services: Fuels
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 she has made of the potential merits of providing support with fuel costs to (a) mountain rescue teams, (b) the RNLI and (c) other voluntary organisations and their volunteers who provide vital public services as charities.
tabling member constituency	North West Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Richard Holden
uin	30185
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2022 answer text <p>We recognise this is a worrying time for many organisations, including charities, that are facing pressures due to the significant increases in global gas prices.</p><p>In the Chancellor’s Spring Statement, the government announced a temporary 12 month cut to duty on petrol and diesel of 5p per litre. This is the biggest cut, in cash terms, that has ever been applied across all fuel duty rates at once.</p><p>We will continue to monitor the impact of fuel costs on volunteers and voluntary sector organisations. More information on volunteers’ pay and expenses is available on <a href="https://www.gov.uk/volunteering/pay-and-expenses" target="_blank">GOV.UK</a>.</p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 07/07/2022 13:26:44 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	4813 label Biography information for Mr Richard Holden

1486163

registered interest
date	04/07/2022
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	Youth Organisations: Kirklees
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, for what reason youth organisations in Kirklees have been unable to access the Youth Investment Fund; and what central funding is available to support facilities for organisations assisting young people aged 11-18 in Kirklees.
tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
tabling member printed	Kim Leadbeater
uin	30208
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2022 answer text <p>The Government recognises the vital role that youth services and activities play in improving the life chances and wellbeing of young people. The Government has committed to a National Youth Guarantee: that by 2025, every young person will have access to regular clubs and activities, adventures away from home and opportunities to volunteer. This will be supported by a three year £560 million investment in youth services, reflecting young people's priorities and addressing the inconsistencies in national youth spending, with a firm focus on levelling up. The Youth Investment Fund is a geographically targeted fund levelling up access to youth services in those areas that need it the most. Ministerial decisions on eligibility criteria were taken on the basis of high quality, robust and publicly available data, details of which are available on the gov.uk website <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/youth-investment-fund-yif-places-selection-methodology/youth-investment-fund-yif-places-selection-methodology" target="_blank">here</a>. Kirklees did not meet the eligibility criteria for the Youth Investment Fund. However, through the National Youth Guarantee DCMS will fund a range of youth programmes across England, such as the National Citizen Service (NCS) and The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award, as well as volunteering programmes through the #iwill Fund and tackling uniformed youth waiting lists, all of which the young people of Kirklees can benefit from.</p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 12/07/2022 10:00:59 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	4923 label Biography information for Kim Leadbeater

1484870

registered interest
date	29/06/2022
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	Regional Planning and Development: Culture
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 she has made of the role of the (a) arts, (b) creative and (c) heritage sectors in achieving the levelling up agenda.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	27657
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2022 answer text <p>The arts, heritage, and creative sectors are at the centre of the government's Levelling Up agenda. By supporting and developing these sectors, we can rejuvenate and transform our communities across the country, creating jobs and boosting pride in place.</p><p>As a department, we have assessed that a number of DCMS programmes across these sectors are already playing a key role in achieving the Levelling Up agenda, and generating significant results.</p><p>For example, as part of the flagship Cultural Investment Fund, the £20 million first round of the Cultural Development Fund supports creative clusters in Plymouth, Wakefield, Worcester, Grimsby and the Thames Estuary. These projects - by their own forecasts - are expected to create over 1000 jobs, train 3000 people, support over 700 businesses and leverage £17.5 million of additional public/private investment. The £24 million Cultural Development Fund round 2 supports innovative cultural and creative projects in Barnsley, Berwick, Isle of Wight, Middlesbrough, Rochdale, Stockport and Torbay.</p><p>Likewise, the £17.5 million Create Growth Programme (CGP) is similarly supporting and developing the creative sectors, providing six regions across England, outside London, with a bespoke package to support high-growth creative businesses. It builds on DCMS’s Creative Scale Up pilot, which to date has supported over 200 creative businesses across the Greater Manchester, West Midlands and West of England Combined Authorities. From an initial £4m investment, there was a total increase in turnover among participating businesses of £13.5 million.</p><p>The £95 million High Street Heritage Action Zones programme drives the regeneration of 67 towns and cities. Historic England will use historic buildings in developing people's pride in place and supporting the Levelling Up agenda. Across the first round, over 70 historic buildings have been restored through the initiative, as well as over 1000 public events being hosted on high streets, including community-led cultural and creative activities.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 08/07/2022 13:54:41 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell