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749331

registered interest
date	06/07/2017
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	21st Century Fox: Sky
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 will make a decision on referring the 21st Century Fox bid for Sky to the Competition and Markets Authority before the summer recess; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Tom Watson
uin	3592
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2017 answer text <p>I refer the Hon Gentleman to the oral statement made to the House on 29 June [Official Report 29 June; Vol 626 Col 762] by the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, in particular to the response given to the Hon Member for Wellingborough [Col 770]</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 11/07/2017 12:31:55 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

748686

registered interest
date	05/07/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	GCSE
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether it is the Government's policy that 75 per cent of students will take the EBacc combination of GCSE subjects by 2022.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Tom Watson
uin	3212
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2017 answer text <p>The Government believes that the English Baccalaureate (EBacc) provides the right educational foundation for the vast majority of pupils. Since 2015, the Government has been clear that we want to see 90 per cent of pupils study the EBacc combination of subjects at GCSE. We will publish further detail about the EBacc policy in due course.</p><p><strong><br> </strong></p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 3213 question first answered 11/07/2017 15:54:57 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

748687

registered interest
date	05/07/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	GCSE
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether it is the Government's policy that 90 per cent of students will take the EBacc combination of GCSE subjects by 2025.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Tom Watson
uin	3213
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2017 answer text <p>The Government believes that the English Baccalaureate (EBacc) provides the right educational foundation for the vast majority of pupils. Since 2015, the Government has been clear that we want to see 90 per cent of pupils study the EBacc combination of subjects at GCSE. We will publish further detail about the EBacc policy in due course.</p><p><strong><br> </strong></p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 3212 question first answered 11/07/2017 15:54:57 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

746160

registered interest
date	28/06/2017
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	Olympic Games
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 June 2017 to Question 229, whether anyone from her Department has had discussions with the British Olympic Association on a name change for the Olympic team from Team GB to Team UK.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Tom Watson
uin	1652
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2017 answer text <p>The Department for Culture, Media and Sport has had no discussions with the British Olympic Association (BOA) , an independent organisation, ​about​ a name change for the Olympic team from TeamGB to Team UK.</p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 03/07/2017 16:47:46 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

746161

registered interest
date	28/06/2017
answering body	Leader of the House
answering dept id	34
answering dept short name	Leader of the House
answering dept sort name	Leader of the House
hansard heading	Democratic Unionist Party: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Leader of the House, what the allocation of Short Money to the Democratic Unionist Party is.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Tom Watson
uin	1655
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2017 answer text <p>I have been informed by the Clerk of the House as Accounting Officer that the Democratic Unionist Party does qualify for Short money as an opposition party under the terms of the Resolution of the House of 26 May 1999.</p><p>Following the General Election of 8 June 2017, the full year Short Money allocation for the Democratic Unionist Party is:</p><p>Main Budget: £222,305.00</p><p>Travel Budget: £4,925.14</p><p>There is no Ministerial responsibility for Short money, which comes under the auspices of the Members Estimate Committee, for which I act as spokesperson.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 03/07/2017 14:54:45 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

746162

registered interest
date	28/06/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Digital Technology
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether it is her policy to set up at least one new institute of technology in the UK, dedicated to world-leading digital skills and developed and run in partnership with the technology industry.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Tom Watson
uin	1656
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2017 answer text <p>As Institutes of Technology are the responsibility of the Department for Education, I am replying to this question. As part of our Industrial Strategy, we will launch a call for proposals to establish new Institutes of Technology later this year, which will enable more young people to take the advanced technical qualifications needed for the high skills, high wage jobs of the future. Further details on the specific requirements will be published in due course.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 06/07/2017 16:48:20 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

746163

registered interest
date	28/06/2017
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, Practices and Ethics of the Press Inquiry
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what plans she has to proceed with the second stage of the Leveson inquiry.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Tom Watson
uin	1657
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2017 answer text <p>The government is currently considering over 140,000 responses to the consultation on this issue.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 03/07/2017 16:16:44 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

732583

registered interest
date	26/06/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	English Baccalaureate
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of pupils in England were entered for the EBacc combination of subjects during the 2015-16 academic year.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Tom Watson
uin	1240
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2017 answer text <p>The proportion of pupils at the end of Key Stage 4<sup>1</sup>, in state funded schools<sup>2</sup> in England, who were entered for the English Baccalaureate combination of subjects during the 2015-16 academic year is 39.7 per cent.</p><p> </p><p>This data was published as part of the post errata (final) Key stage 4 attainment data update on the school performance tables website.<sup>3</sup></p><p><sup>1 </sup>Pupils are identified as being at the end of key stage 4 if they were on roll at a school and in year 11 at the time of the January 2016 school census. Age is calculated as at 31 August 2015, and the majority of pupils at the end of key stage 4 were aged 15 at the start of the academic year. Some pupils may complete this key stage in an earlier or later year group.</p><p><sup>2 </sup>State-funded schools include academies, free schools, city technology colleges, further education colleges with provision for 14- to 16-year-olds and state-funded special schools. They exclude independent schools, independent special schools, non-maintained special schools, hospital schools and alternative provision.</p><p><sup>3 </sup>Figures from 2009/10 – 2014/15 are taken from: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/gcse-and-equivalent-results-2015-to-2016-provisional" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/gcse-and-equivalent-results-2015-to-2016-provisional</a> (“National tables: SFR48/2016” document, table 1b). Figures for 2015/16 are taken from 2015/16 final data published in the download data section of the school performance tables website: <a href="https://www.compare-school-performance.service.gov.uk/download-data?currentstep=datatypes&amp;regiontype=all&amp;la=0&amp;downloadYear=2015-2016&amp;datatypes=ks4" target="_blank">https://www.compare-school-performance.service.gov.uk/download-data?currentstep=datatypes&amp;regiontype=all&amp;la=0&amp;downloadYear=2015-2016&amp;datatypes=ks4</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 04/07/2017 15:40:54 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

731758

registered interest
date	22/06/2017
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	Television Licences: Older People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether it is her Department's policy to retain the entitlement to free television licences for the over-75s for the period 2020 to 2022.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Tom Watson
uin	574
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2017 answer text <p>We retain the power to maintain free TV licences for over 75s until 2020, when the power transfers to the BBC. Any change proposed by the BBC would of course require consultation with the public.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 27/06/2017 16:09:46 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

731772

registered interest
date	22/06/2017
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	Media
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she will take to ensure the reliability and objectivity of information essential to our democracy and a free and independent press; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Tom Watson
uin	643
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2017 answer text <p>The Government will always protect the reliability and objectivity of information essential to our democracy and a free and independent press.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 27/06/2017 13:08:32 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest