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860590

registered interest
date	12/03/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Public Sector: Recruitment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 13 November 2017 to Question 111417, on Public Sector: Recruitment, which civil service roles were not identified as suitable for removal of the box under the ban the box initiative.
tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
tabling member printed	Ben Lake
uin	131947
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2018 answer text <p>As a default position, the Civil Service will ‘Ban the Box’ when it advertises job vacancies.</p><p>There are some business areas across the Civil Service where it will be inappropriate to apply Ban the Box. This will only occur where there is a clear, justifiable business need to understand a candidate’s conviction history at the application stage in the recruitment process. An exception is most likely to apply to roles that are particularly sensitive in nature, for example; work with children and vulnerable adults of positions connected to public safety. Permanent Secretaries are accountable for the exceptions process. The Cabinet Office do not hold a central record of which civil service roles were not identified as suitable for the Ban the Box initiative.</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden grouped question UIN 131948 question first answered 20/03/2018 17:39:30 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake

860591

registered interest
date	12/03/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Public Sector: Recruitment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 13 November 2017 to Question 111417, on Public Sector: Recruitment. what criteria are used to assess whether a civil service role is suitable for removal of the box under the ban the box initiative.
tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
tabling member printed	Ben Lake
uin	131948
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2018 answer text <p>As a default position, the Civil Service will ‘Ban the Box’ when it advertises job vacancies.</p><p>There are some business areas across the Civil Service where it will be inappropriate to apply Ban the Box. This will only occur where there is a clear, justifiable business need to understand a candidate’s conviction history at the application stage in the recruitment process. An exception is most likely to apply to roles that are particularly sensitive in nature, for example; work with children and vulnerable adults of positions connected to public safety. Permanent Secretaries are accountable for the exceptions process. The Cabinet Office do not hold a central record of which civil service roles were not identified as suitable for the Ban the Box initiative.</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden grouped question UIN 131947 question first answered 20/03/2018 17:39:30 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake

843565

registered interest
date	19/02/2018
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	Radio: Wales
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 effect his Department’s consultation on the deregulation of radio on the availability of Welsh-specific content in radio in Wales.
tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
tabling member printed	Ben Lake
uin	127906
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2018 answer text <p>While we consulted on a number of areas in the consultation, the primary focus of deregulating the commercial radio sector is to give service providers more freedom to run their businesses in the way that best suits them. Although removing out-dated regulations will be welcome to many service providers, there will be no obligation for stations to change the way they currently operate. We do not expect the proposals to negatively impact the nations, including with regards to Welsh-specific content.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 28/02/2018 12:55:10 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake

839129

registered interest
date	08/02/2018
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	S4C Independent Review
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 progress has been made on the review of S4C.
tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
tabling member printed	Ben Lake
uin	127688
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2018 answer text <p>Euryn Ogwen Williams submitted ​the final report​ of the S4C independent review​ to the ​government in December​ 2017​. We will publish ​the review ​and the ​g​overnment's response in due course.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James grouped question UIN 127689 question first answered 20/02/2018 16:37:23 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake

839130

registered interest
date	08/02/2018
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	S4C Independent Review
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 the timetable is for the people undertaking the review of S4C to report back to him.
tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
tabling member printed	Ben Lake
uin	127689
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2018 answer text <p>Euryn Ogwen Williams submitted ​the final report​ of the S4C independent review​ to the ​government in December​ 2017​. We will publish ​the review ​and the ​g​overnment's response in due course.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James grouped question UIN 127688 question first answered 20/02/2018 16:37:23 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake

839131

registered interest
date	08/02/2018
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	S4C: Finance
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 the planned level of funding for S4C from the public purse is for financial year 2018-17.
tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
tabling member printed	Ben Lake
uin	127690
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2018 answer text <p>S4C is publicly funded through a combination of licence fee and Exchequer funding. Licence fee funding for S4C is guaranteed at £74.5 million until 2021/22 and Exchequer funding is set until the end of the current spending review period in 2019/20. As with all government funding, we keep S4C funding under review.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 20/02/2018 16:40:21 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake

839133

registered interest
date	08/02/2018
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	Broadcasting: Wales
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 has made an assessment of the potential merits of devolving broadcasting to Wales; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
tabling member printed	Ben Lake
uin	127692
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2018 answer text <p>Broadcasting is and should remain a reserved matter.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 23/02/2018 14:02:22 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake

839134

registered interest
date	08/02/2018
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	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, what progress he has made on the public consultation on the deregulation of commercial radio.
tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
tabling member printed	Ben Lake
uin	127693
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2018 answer text <p>The commercial radio deregulation consultation closed on 8 May 2017 and the government response was published on 18 December 2017.</p><p> </p><p>The next phase is for DCMS to begin the detailed work to develop the new legislative structure and to bring forward legislation prior to analogue licenses coming up for renewal in 2022. Legislation will be brought forward when Parliamentary time allows.</p><p> </p><p>We took great care to consider how the proposals will affect the nations. For example, due to the feedback we received from stakeholders and respondents on the proposal to allow Ofcom to have the power to set different news (national and local) or other local requirements in the nations, we have decided to not proceed with this. We agree that having such a power may disadvantage local stations in the nations and that a better approach is for Ofcom to have regard to the needs of all UK audiences in setting the requirements on a UK basis. We do not expect the remaining proposals included in the consultation to negatively impact the nations.</p><p> </p><p>The consultation concluded that the current localness requirements set out under s.314 of the Communications Act 2003 are now too onerous and are acting to constrain the commercial radio industry from being able to rationalise their production base. Removing this will allow services to compete more effectively against new online services. However, news and information must continue to be locally sourced.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James grouped question UIN 127694 127695 question first answered 23/02/2018 14:08:39 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake

839135

registered interest
date	08/02/2018
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	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 has made an assessment of the potential effect of proposals in its consultation on the deregulation of radio on the use of the Welsh language in radio in Wales; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
tabling member printed	Ben Lake
uin	127694
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2018 answer text <p>The commercial radio deregulation consultation closed on 8 May 2017 and the government response was published on 18 December 2017.</p><p> </p><p>The next phase is for DCMS to begin the detailed work to develop the new legislative structure and to bring forward legislation prior to analogue licenses coming up for renewal in 2022. Legislation will be brought forward when Parliamentary time allows.</p><p> </p><p>We took great care to consider how the proposals will affect the nations. For example, due to the feedback we received from stakeholders and respondents on the proposal to allow Ofcom to have the power to set different news (national and local) or other local requirements in the nations, we have decided to not proceed with this. We agree that having such a power may disadvantage local stations in the nations and that a better approach is for Ofcom to have regard to the needs of all UK audiences in setting the requirements on a UK basis. We do not expect the remaining proposals included in the consultation to negatively impact the nations.</p><p> </p><p>The consultation concluded that the current localness requirements set out under s.314 of the Communications Act 2003 are now too onerous and are acting to constrain the commercial radio industry from being able to rationalise their production base. Removing this will allow services to compete more effectively against new online services. However, news and information must continue to be locally sourced.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James grouped question UIN 127693 127695 question first answered 23/02/2018 14:08:39 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake

839136

registered interest
date	08/02/2018
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	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, what assessment he has made of the effect of deregulation of commercial radio on levels of locally produced content.
tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
tabling member printed	Ben Lake
uin	127695
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2018 answer text <p>The commercial radio deregulation consultation closed on 8 May 2017 and the government response was published on 18 December 2017.</p><p> </p><p>The next phase is for DCMS to begin the detailed work to develop the new legislative structure and to bring forward legislation prior to analogue licenses coming up for renewal in 2022. Legislation will be brought forward when Parliamentary time allows.</p><p> </p><p>We took great care to consider how the proposals will affect the nations. For example, due to the feedback we received from stakeholders and respondents on the proposal to allow Ofcom to have the power to set different news (national and local) or other local requirements in the nations, we have decided to not proceed with this. We agree that having such a power may disadvantage local stations in the nations and that a better approach is for Ofcom to have regard to the needs of all UK audiences in setting the requirements on a UK basis. We do not expect the remaining proposals included in the consultation to negatively impact the nations.</p><p> </p><p>The consultation concluded that the current localness requirements set out under s.314 of the Communications Act 2003 are now too onerous and are acting to constrain the commercial radio industry from being able to rationalise their production base. Removing this will allow services to compete more effectively against new online services. However, news and information must continue to be locally sourced.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James grouped question UIN 127693 127694 question first answered 23/02/2018 14:08:39 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake