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1548372

	registered interest
	date	05/12/2022
	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	Gambling: Advertising
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if the Government will take steps to reduce the number of gambling advertisements on television.
	tabling member constituency	Newport East
	tabling member printed	Jessica Morden
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	102808
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/12/2022 answer text <p>Broadcasters have discretion over how advertising breaks are set and what adverts are broadcast, as long as they comply with the advertising codes of practice issued by the Broadcast Committee of Advertising Practice (BCAP) and the Committees of Advertising Practice (CAP), which are enforced by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA). These codes set rules such as preventing gambling adverts from airing around any programmes that particularly appeal to children. All gambling advertising, wherever it appears, is subject to strict controls on content and placement enforced by the Advertising Standards Authority and Ofcom.</p><p>The gambling industry’s own Code for Socially Responsible Advertising also includes restrictions on televised advertising, such as a ban on showing most forms of gambling advertising before 9 pm, and the ‘whistle-to-whistle’ ban preventing betting ads from airing during and immediately before and after live sporting events.</p><p>The Committee of Advertising Practice has recently made changes to the advertising codes in response to research on features of advertising that appeal to children and vulnerable people. These include banning content that over-emphasises skill or downplays risk involved in betting, as well as the use of content or persons who have ‘strong appeal’ to children, such as influencers or top-flight footballers. The Code in relation to broadcast advertising can be found here: <a href="https://www.asa.org.uk/type/broadcast/code_section/17.html" target="_blank">https://www.asa.org.uk/type/broadcast/code_section/17.html</a></p><p>The government has not engaged with the BBC on the subject of its presenters appearing in gambling advertisements. The BBC is independent from the government and any additional rules or guidelines specifically for BBC staff would be a matter for the BBC to decide.</p><p>The government is currently reviewing the Gambling Act 2005 to ensure it is fit for the digital age. As part of its broad scope, the Gambling Act Review will look at the impacts of advertising and marketing by gambling operators, wherever it appears. We will publish a White Paper outlining our conclusions in the coming weeks.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully grouped question UIN 102810 question first answered 09/12/2022 10:42:48 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
	tabling member	1548 label Biography information for Jessica Morden

1548373

	registered interest
	date	05/12/2022
	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	Gambling Act 2005 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, when she plans to publish the Gambling Act White Paper.
	tabling member constituency	Newport East
	tabling member printed	Jessica Morden
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	102809
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2022 answer text <p>The Gambling Act Review is wide-ranging and aims to ensure regulation is fit for the digital age. We will publish a White Paper setting out our vision and next steps in the coming weeks.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 08/12/2022 17:21:44 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
	tabling member	1548 label Biography information for Jessica Morden

1548374

	registered interest
	date	05/12/2022
	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	Gambling: Advertising
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if she will have discussions with the BBC Board on seeking to ensure that BBC presenters do not appear in gambling advertisements on commercial channels.
	tabling member constituency	Newport East
	tabling member printed	Jessica Morden
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	102810
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/12/2022 answer text <p>Broadcasters have discretion over how advertising breaks are set and what adverts are broadcast, as long as they comply with the advertising codes of practice issued by the Broadcast Committee of Advertising Practice (BCAP) and the Committees of Advertising Practice (CAP), which are enforced by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA). These codes set rules such as preventing gambling adverts from airing around any programmes that particularly appeal to children. All gambling advertising, wherever it appears, is subject to strict controls on content and placement enforced by the Advertising Standards Authority and Ofcom.</p><p>The gambling industry’s own Code for Socially Responsible Advertising also includes restrictions on televised advertising, such as a ban on showing most forms of gambling advertising before 9 pm, and the ‘whistle-to-whistle’ ban preventing betting ads from airing during and immediately before and after live sporting events.</p><p>The Committee of Advertising Practice has recently made changes to the advertising codes in response to research on features of advertising that appeal to children and vulnerable people. These include banning content that over-emphasises skill or downplays risk involved in betting, as well as the use of content or persons who have ‘strong appeal’ to children, such as influencers or top-flight footballers. The Code in relation to broadcast advertising can be found here: <a href="https://www.asa.org.uk/type/broadcast/code_section/17.html" target="_blank">https://www.asa.org.uk/type/broadcast/code_section/17.html</a></p><p>The government has not engaged with the BBC on the subject of its presenters appearing in gambling advertisements. The BBC is independent from the government and any additional rules or guidelines specifically for BBC staff would be a matter for the BBC to decide.</p><p>The government is currently reviewing the Gambling Act 2005 to ensure it is fit for the digital age. As part of its broad scope, the Gambling Act Review will look at the impacts of advertising and marketing by gambling operators, wherever it appears. We will publish a White Paper outlining our conclusions in the coming weeks.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully grouped question UIN 102808 question first answered 09/12/2022 10:42:48 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
	tabling member	1548 label Biography information for Jessica Morden

1548597

	registered interest
	date	05/12/2022
	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	Social Media and Technology: Russia
	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 discussions the Government has had with (a) social media and (b) technology companies to help ensure that their platforms are not being used to disseminate Russian propaganda.
	tabling member constituency	Caerphilly
	tabling member printed	Wayne David
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	102840
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2022 answer text <p>The Government takes the issue of disinformation seriously. The DCMS-led Counter Disinformation Unit (CDU) works to identify and counter Russian disinformation, working closely with cross Whitehall partners and the major social media platforms. The CDU encourages platforms to swiftly remove disinformation and coordinated inauthentic or manipulated behaviour, as per their Terms of Service and engages regularly with social media companies and technology companies to understand policy changes and other countermeasures related to Russian information activities, and the effectiveness of these actions.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 08/12/2022 17:23:10 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
	tabling member	1398 label Biography information for Wayne David

1548422

	registered interest
	date	05/12/2022
	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	Social Media: Mental Health
	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 steps her Department is taking to regulate social media algorithms to reduce user exposure to (a) self-harm and (b) suicide-related content.
	tabling member constituency	Lanark and Hamilton East
	tabling member printed	Angela Crawley
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	102909
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2022 answer text <p>Under the Online Safety Bill, all platforms will need to undertake risk assessments for illegal content and content that is harmful to children. This will ensure they understand the risks associated with their services, including in relation to their algorithms. They will then need to put in place proportionate systems and processes to mitigate these risks.</p><p>Platforms that are likely to be accessed by children will need to fulfil these duties in relation to harmful content and activity, including legal self-harm and suicide content. Assisting suicide has also been designated as a priority offence in the Bill, so all platforms will be required to take proactive steps to tackle this type of illegal content. The government will also bring forward a new self-harm offence. Companies will therefore need to remove communications that intentionally encourage or assist self-harm.</p><p>The largest platforms will also have a duty to offer all adult users tools to reduce their exposure to certain kinds of legal content. On 29 November the government announced its intention for these tools to apply to legal self-harm and suicide content. These tools could include the option of switching off algorithmically recommended content.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 08/12/2022 17:24:46 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
	tabling member	4469 label Biography information for Angela Crawley

1548385

	registered interest
	date	05/12/2022
	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	Gambling: Suicide
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make an assessment of the (a) adequacy of the methodology used and (b) accuracy of the estimates of the level of suicides associated with problem gambling in the report by Public Health England entitled Gambling-related harms: evidence review, published on 30 September 2021.
	tabling member constituency	Blackpool South
	tabling member printed	Scott Benton
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	102997
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2022 answer text <p>The Department for Health and Social Care is undertaking a review and update of the Public Health England report ‘Gambling-related harms evidence review: the economic and social cost of harms’, to assess the accuracy of its estimates of suicide numbers. The updated report is in the final stage of review and will be published soon.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully grouped question UIN 103031 question first answered 13/12/2022 12:00:52 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
	tabling member	4793 label Biography information for Scott Benton

1548546

	registered interest
	date	05/12/2022
	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	Gambling
	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 Governnet's planned timetable is for the publication of Public Health England's cost estimates of harmful gambling and the addendum showing specific calculations.
	tabling member constituency	Blackpool South
	tabling member printed	Scott Benton
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	103031
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2022 answer text <p>The Department for Health and Social Care is undertaking a review and update of the Public Health England report ‘Gambling-related harms evidence review: the economic and social cost of harms’, to assess the accuracy of its estimates of suicide numbers. The updated report is in the final stage of review and will be published soon.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully grouped question UIN 102997 question first answered 13/12/2022 12:00:52 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
	tabling member	4793 label Biography information for Scott Benton

1548917

	registered interest
	date	06/12/2022
	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	Gambling: Suicide
	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 her Answer of 3 October 2022 to Question 51665 on Gambling: Addictions, for what reasons the Gambling Commission did not inform her Department that it considered Public Health England’s estimate of the number of suicides in England associated with problem gambling to be inaccurate.
	tabling member constituency	North West Leicestershire
	tabling member printed	Andrew Bridgen
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	104170
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2022 answer text <p>The Gambling Commission is not required to produce an assessment of the work of other public bodies, and, unless formally requested to do so, it is not required to provide formal advice to the Department on its views regarding particular pieces of research or evidence. However, DCMS officials have regular discussions with the Commission on a range of issues relating to gambling regulation and the evidence on gambling, and this has included the Public Health England evidence report.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully grouped question UIN 104171 question first answered 13/12/2022 15:30:01 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
	tabling member	4133 label Biography information for Andrew Bridgen

1548919

	registered interest
	date	06/12/2022
	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	Gambling
	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 Answer of 3 October 2022 to Question 51665 on Gambling: Addictions, if she will ask the Gambling Commission to publish its assessment of the Public Health England report on social and economic costs associated with gambling-related harms.
	tabling member constituency	North West Leicestershire
	tabling member printed	Andrew Bridgen
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	104171
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2022 answer text <p>The Gambling Commission is not required to produce an assessment of the work of other public bodies, and, unless formally requested to do so, it is not required to provide formal advice to the Department on its views regarding particular pieces of research or evidence. However, DCMS officials have regular discussions with the Commission on a range of issues relating to gambling regulation and the evidence on gambling, and this has included the Public Health England evidence report.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully grouped question UIN 104170 question first answered 13/12/2022 15:30:01 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
	tabling member	4133 label Biography information for Andrew Bridgen

1549146

	registered interest
	date	06/12/2022
	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	ICT: Innovation
	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 steps her Department has taken in helping to support the development of exascale supercomputing technology.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
	tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	104199
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/12/2022 answer text <p>At present, the UK does not have exascale capability. Exascale systems are at an early stage of deployment globally. The US’ first exascale system, Frontier, was brought online earlier this year. As for Japan and the EU, they have not reached exascale capability yet. The first EU’s exascale system, Jupiter, is expected to be deployed in 2023.</p><p>In September 2021, DCMS took on responsibility for coordination of activity and policy development for large-scale computing (LSC).</p><p>The Future of Compute review, independently led by Professor Zoubin Ghahramani, will build on the 2021 report by the Government Office for Science (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/large-scale-computing-the-case-for-greater-uk-coordination" target="_blank">Large-scale computing: the case for greater UK coordination</a>) which set out the building blocks to creating a world-class computing ecosystem. The Future of Compute review will produce recommendations on the UKs compute capability over the next decade and the interventions required to ensure that UK researchers and businesses can fully exploit world-class compute infrastructure to support science, innovation and growth.</p><p>The Future of Compute review will contain an overview of the international advanced compute landscape. Ahead of the review’s publication, the <a href="https://www.top500.org/lists/top500/" target="_blank">Top500 list</a> provides an up-to-date assessment of international compute capabilities and a ranking of the most powerful systems globally.</p><p>The review will be published in due course.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully grouped question UIN 104200 question first answered 09/12/2022 12:56:36 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
	tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah