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1104717

registered interest
date	25/03/2019
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	Facebook: 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 he discussed with Mark Zuckerberg at their meeting in week commencing 18 February 2019 the January 2019 Facebook data breach in which the passwords of up to 600 million users were made available to Facebook employees.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Tom Watson
uin	236302
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2019 answer text <p>I refer the Hon Member to the Secretary of State’s answer to PQ 225432 on 28th February.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 28/03/2019 12:23:08 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

1093457

registered interest
date	22/03/2019
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	Facebook: 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, when he was notified of the Facebook data breach reported on 21 March 2019 where the passwords of up to 600 million users were made available to Facebook employees.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Tom Watson
uin	235736
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2019 answer text <p>We take the protection of personal data and the right to privacy extremely seriously. The Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA) made our data protection laws fit for the digital age and empowered people to take control of their data.</p><p> </p><p>The DPA and General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) introduced a duty on all organisations including social media companies to notify certain types of personal data breaches to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO).</p><p> </p><p>Under the GDPR, a company may designate one national regulator in the European Union as its “lead supervisory authority”, so that it does not have to deal with 28 separate regulators. In the case of Facebook, the Irish Data Protection authority takes that role and is therefore leading on this breach.</p><p> </p><p>The ICO is working with its Irish counterpart to ensure that it fulfils its role to protect UK citizens data. This includes establishing the number of UK users affected.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James grouped question UIN 235746 question first answered 27/03/2019 15:05:27 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

1093458

registered interest
date	22/03/2019
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	Facebook: 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, what information his Department holds on the number of UK users affected by the Facebook data breach reported on 21 March 2019 where the passwords of up to 600 million users were made available to Facebook employees.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Tom Watson
uin	235746
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2019 answer text <p>We take the protection of personal data and the right to privacy extremely seriously. The Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA) made our data protection laws fit for the digital age and empowered people to take control of their data.</p><p> </p><p>The DPA and General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) introduced a duty on all organisations including social media companies to notify certain types of personal data breaches to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO).</p><p> </p><p>Under the GDPR, a company may designate one national regulator in the European Union as its “lead supervisory authority”, so that it does not have to deal with 28 separate regulators. In the case of Facebook, the Irish Data Protection authority takes that role and is therefore leading on this breach.</p><p> </p><p>The ICO is working with its Irish counterpart to ensure that it fulfils its role to protect UK citizens data. This includes establishing the number of UK users affected.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James grouped question UIN 235736 question first answered 27/03/2019 15:05:27 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

1091340

registered interest
date	19/03/2019
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Health Services: Reciprocal Arrangements
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many European Health Insurance Cards in circulation have been issued to people with a registered disability.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Tom Watson
uin	234114
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2019 answer text <p>The Department does not hold the data on the number of people with a registered disability. This is not part of the eligibility criteria that is requested during the application process.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond grouped question UIN 234115 question first answered 22/03/2019 13:12:45 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

1091341

registered interest
date	19/03/2019
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Health Services: Reciprocal Arrangements
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many European Health Insurance Cards in circulation have been issued to people with a registered disability in each of the nations of the UK.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Tom Watson
uin	234115
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2019 answer text <p>The Department does not hold the data on the number of people with a registered disability. This is not part of the eligibility criteria that is requested during the application process.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond grouped question UIN 234114 question first answered 22/03/2019 13:12:45 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

1091343

registered interest
date	19/03/2019
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	Radio: Staff
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 number of people employed in the radio industry in each of the nations and regions of the UK in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Tom Watson
uin	234116
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2019 answer text <p>The number of employees in the radio sector by nation and regions is shown in the table.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Region</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2017</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East</p></td><td><p>500</p></td><td><p>700</p></td><td><p>75</p></td><td><p>500</p></td><td><p>400</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Midlands</p></td><td><p>350</p></td><td><p>450</p></td><td><p>400</p></td><td><p>600</p></td><td><p>600</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>London</p></td><td><p>7,000</p></td><td><p>7,000</p></td><td><p>7,000</p></td><td><p>7,000</p></td><td><p>8,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North East</p></td><td><p>75</p></td><td><p>150</p></td><td><p>175</p></td><td><p>150</p></td><td><p>175</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North West</p></td><td><p>350</p></td><td><p>700</p></td><td><p>500</p></td><td><p>600</p></td><td><p>1,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Scotland</p></td><td><p>450</p></td><td><p>450</p></td><td><p>350</p></td><td><p>1,750</p></td><td><p>500</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South East</p></td><td><p>350</p></td><td><p>600</p></td><td><p>800</p></td><td><p>800</p></td><td><p>800</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South West</p></td><td><p>250</p></td><td><p>300</p></td><td><p>225</p></td><td><p>1,000</p></td><td><p>500</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wales</p></td><td><p>300</p></td><td><p>175</p></td><td><p>250</p></td><td><p>300</p></td><td><p>225</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Midlands</p></td><td><p>225</p></td><td><p>600</p></td><td><p>450</p></td><td><p>500</p></td><td><p>350</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Yorkshire and The Humber</p></td><td><p>500</p></td><td><p>400</p></td><td><p>400</p></td><td><p>500</p></td><td><p>500</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p><strong>11,000</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>12,000</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>11,000</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>14,000</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>13,000</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 22/03/2019 14:31:01 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

1091359

registered interest
date	19/03/2019
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	Commercial Broadcasting: Radio
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 his Department undertook an impact assessment of the effect of changes to localness guidelines for commercial radio on jobs in local commercial radio stations.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Tom Watson
uin	234117
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2019 answer text <p>The changes to the localness guidance were made by Ofcom, the independent regulator, in line with its requirements under section 314 of the Communications Act 2003 to ensure effective and appropriate localness guidance is in place (as required under the 2003 Act).</p><p> </p><p>Ofcom's consultation in 2018 on its proposed changes to the localness guidance and impact assessment covered the potential impacts on radio listeners and the industry.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 22/03/2019 14:32:36 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

1088234

registered interest
date	13/03/2019
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Health Services: Reciprocal Arrangements
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 26 February 2019 to Question 224304 on Health Services: Reciprocal Arrangements, how many European Health Insurance Cards have been issued to people over the age of 70 in each of the nations and regions of the UK.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Tom Watson
uin	231936
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2019 answer text <p>The number of active European Health Insurance Cards issued to people over 70 is as follows:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Northern Ireland</p></td><td><p>60,132</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>England</p></td><td><p>2,391,876</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Scotland</p></td><td><p>219,675</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wales</p></td><td><p>140,439</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><br> The data by region is not available.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 18/03/2019 11:28:47 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

1088477

registered interest
date	13/03/2019
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Diabetes: Pregnancy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people have been diagnosed with gestational diabetes in each of the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Tom Watson
uin	231937
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2019 answer text <p>The information requested is not centrally held.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 18/03/2019 16:26:39 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest