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605836

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date	19/10/2016
answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Department for Culture, Media and Sport: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many staff (a) of her Department and (b) working in each of its public bodies were employed in NUTS 1 region in the last fiscal year.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	49414
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2016 answer text <p>a) DCMS employed 527 payroll staff (and 57 non-payroll) staff at the 31st Mar 16 (end of the last fiscal year).</p><p> </p><p>b) this information is not held centrally and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 27/10/2016 09:40:22 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

605839

registered interest
date	19/10/2016
answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Culture: Greater London
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much (a) her Department and (b) each of its public bodies allocated to (i) the Greater London Authority, (ii) the Mayor of London and (iii) London boroughs to support cultural projects in the last fiscal year.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	49333
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2016 answer text <p>a) The Government has been clear that the right balance of funding between London and the regions continues to require attention, and, as such, there has been a shift in spending on National Portfolio funding away from London over the last five years. £25.28 was spent per head in 2015/16 compared with £29.09 in 2011/12. ACE have also confirmed that the amount of funding for NPOs outside London will increase in the 2018-2022 portfolio.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, in May last year, Arts Council England (ACE) announced they will increase the percentage of Lottery funding distributed outside London from 70% to 75% by the end of 2018; and invest over £35 million in the Ambition for Excellence fund - over £31 million of which will be spent outside London.</p><p> </p><p>b) This information is not held centrally and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 27/10/2016 11:58:32 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

605840

registered interest
date	19/10/2016
answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Culture: North of England
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of permanently devolving additional cultural spending to the North of England.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	49334
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2016 answer text <p>The Government is committed to extending cultural opportunities to as many people as possible. We believe in retaining a national strategic arts budget, administered by the Arts Council in England, to ensure arts funding can be targeted where it is most needed and that Government cultural investment should work in support of local cultural priorities.</p><p> </p><p>The Great Exhibition of the North for example, is a fantastic opportunity to celebrate the very best of northern art, culture and design. Not only will it showcase the innovation and imagination of the region but also give a real boost to local tourism and provide an important creative legacy. We are committing £5 million towards the exhibition itself, and a further £15 million into a legacy fund to attract further cultural investment in the Northern Powerhouse.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 25/10/2016 11:38:14 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

605848

registered interest
date	19/10/2016
answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Museums and Galleries: Closures
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 26 May 2016 to Question 37452 to the hon. Member for Bristol West, on museums and galleries, which museums wholly reliant on local authority funding have closed in each year since 2009-10.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	49502
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2016 answer text <p>The Government is committed to ensuring that arts and cultural experiences, including those offered by museums and galleries, are available to everyone and not just the privileged few. Government provides support to local museums through Arts Council England (ACE), including a £10m Resilience Fund supporting museums at risk to explore new funding models and become more sustainable. Earlier this month, ACE ​announced the 2018-2022 investment round of £409m per year, which includes a £37m/year increase to focus on improving the amount spent outside London and on integrating museums into the arts portfolio.</p><p> </p><p>The modern model of museums funding is that there are very few museums entirely reliant on local authority funding. Where museums are run by local authorities, decisions on service provision are for those local authorities to take.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 27/10/2016 09:42:50 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

605869

registered interest
date	19/10/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Museums and Galleries
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the locations are of the museums supported by the museums and schools programme.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	49335
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2016 answer text <p>The museums and schools programme operates in the following 10 areas:</p><ul><li>Kent</li><li>Bristol</li><li>London</li><li>Peterborough</li><li>Great Yarmouth</li><li>Coventry</li><li>Lincolnshire</li><li>Yorkshire</li><li>Blackburn and Lancashire</li><li>Tees Valley</li></ul> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 26/10/2016 14:17:28 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

605895

registered interest
date	19/10/2016
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Common Agricultural Policy and Common Fisheries Policy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether it is her policy to negotiate to participate in the (a) Common Agricultural Policy and (b) Common Fisheries Policy after the UK leaves the EU.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	49339
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2016 answer text <p>Exit from the EU presents us with a unique opportunity to review the way we manage our farming and fisheries sectors and design a set of policies tailored to the needs of the UK. These sectors are immensely valuable and supporting them will form an important part of our exit from the EU. The Secretary of State, and her ministerial team and cross-Whitehall colleagues, are therefore working with industry, rural and coastal communities, and the wider public to shape our plans for farming and fisheries outside the EU.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 25/10/2016 14:50:42 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

605935

registered interest
date	19/10/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Migrant Workers: Doctors
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy not to issue any future deportation notices to foreign-born doctors currently working in the NHS.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	49337
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/10/2016 answer text <p>Doctors from overseas seeking to remain in the UK are expected to meet the requirements of the Immigration Rules in the same way as any other migrant.</p><p>Should they fail to qualify to remain in the UK under the Immigration Rules they will be expected to leave the UK voluntarily but should they fail to do so then steps may be taken to enforce their departure.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 31/10/2016 16:59:18 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

605939

registered interest
date	19/10/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Blood: Contamination
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the reformed discretionary support scheme for people affected by contaminated blood will consider (a) housing benefit or (b) jobseeker's allowance in calculating eligibility for financial support for (i) widows and widowers of people affected and (ii) other beneficiaries.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	49348
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2016 answer text <p>In 2017/18, as part of the wider reform of the Infected Blood Payments Scheme in England, a new discretionary scheme will replace the current three discretionary schemes. The new discretionary scheme is in design and the relationship between receipt of welfare support and eligibility for discretionary support from the new scheme has yet to be decided.</p> answering member constituency Oxford West and Abingdon answering member printed Nicola Blackwood question first answered 27/10/2016 10:11:06 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

605953

registered interest
date	19/10/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Slavery
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether it is the practice of the Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner to analyse the supply chain statements of private companies in relation to modern slavery and human trafficking.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	49330
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2016 answer text <p>The Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner has a remit to encourage good practice in the prevention, detection, investigation and prosecution of modern slavery offences and in the identification of victims.</p><p>This can include encouraging good practice among businesses. It is for the Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner to determine how to carry out this work.</p><p>He made ‘private sector engagement to encourage supply chain transparency’ one of his five priorities in his Strategic Plan for 2015-2017 and reported on progress in his first annual report, which was published on 12 October.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 27/10/2016 17:34:18 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

605954

registered interest
date	19/10/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Slavery
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the proportion of companies which have published details of the measures they are taking to eradicate slavery and human trafficking from their supply chains.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	49331
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2016 answer text <p>The Government has not estimated what proportion of businesses have reported so far.</p><p>We published guidance in October 2015 advising that businesses should report as soon as reasonably practicable after their financial year end, which in practice should mean within six months of an organisation’s financial year end.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 27/10/2016 17:36:40 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson