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1361378

	registered interest
	date	19/10/2021
	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	Internet: Radicalism
	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 representations she has received on including measures to tackle incel culture online in the Online Harms Bill.
	tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
	tabling member printed	Luke Pollard
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	59025
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2021 answer text <p>Ministers and officials have regular meetings and discussions with a wide range of stakeholders and have received representations on a variety of issues, including online incel culture. Details of Ministerial meetings are published quarterly on the <a href="https://www.gov.uk/" target="_blank">Gov.uk</a> website.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 25/10/2021 10:26:57 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard

1227308

	registered interest
	date	22/07/2020
	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	Music: Coronavirus
	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 expects to issue guidance on when amateur choirs can (a) rehearse together and (b) perform in person as covid-19 restrictions are lifted.
	tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
	tabling member printed	Luke Pollard
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	78852
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2020 answer text <p>DCMS has always been clear that the Performing Arts guidance would be updated on the basis of the latest science and public health context.</p><p> </p><p>The PERFORM study (published 20 August) has indicated that it is the cumulative aerosol transmission from both those performing in and attending events that is likely to create the risk of transmission. As a result of these findings we have updated the Performing Arts guidance to confirm that non-professionals can now engage in all activities, including singing, wind and brass and confirmed that where non-professional groups plan to meet, there are no set limits on the numbers who can be involved when taking place outside and/or in a Covid-secure venue. This is in line with rules on meeting people outside your household for clubs and groups and gatherings in Covid-secure venues.</p><p> </p><p>Organisations must ensure that they carry out an appropriate COVID-19 risk assessment and that individuals are socially distanced at all times. Organisations will want to minimise risk as far as possible and the Performing Arts guidance sets out a number of mitigations that should be considered to minimise risk including operating outside where possible, limiting the numbers involved in and duration of activity and considering how ventilation can be improved.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 78853 question first answered 07/09/2020 14:43:23 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard

1227309

	registered interest
	date	22/07/2020
	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	Music: Coronavirus
	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 level of transmission of covid-19 between individuals in (a) professional and (b) amateur choirs that requires them to be dealt with differently in guidance.
	tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
	tabling member printed	Luke Pollard
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	78853
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2020 answer text <p>DCMS has always been clear that the Performing Arts guidance would be updated on the basis of the latest science and public health context.</p><p> </p><p>The PERFORM study (published 20 August) has indicated that it is the cumulative aerosol transmission from both those performing in and attending events that is likely to create the risk of transmission. As a result of these findings we have updated the Performing Arts guidance to confirm that non-professionals can now engage in all activities, including singing, wind and brass and confirmed that where non-professional groups plan to meet, there are no set limits on the numbers who can be involved when taking place outside and/or in a Covid-secure venue. This is in line with rules on meeting people outside your household for clubs and groups and gatherings in Covid-secure venues.</p><p> </p><p>Organisations must ensure that they carry out an appropriate COVID-19 risk assessment and that individuals are socially distanced at all times. Organisations will want to minimise risk as far as possible and the Performing Arts guidance sets out a number of mitigations that should be considered to minimise risk including operating outside where possible, limiting the numbers involved in and duration of activity and considering how ventilation can be improved.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 78852 question first answered 07/09/2020 14:43:23 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard

1228871

	registered interest
	date	28/08/2020
	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	Video Games: 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, when he plans to bring forward legislative proposals on the regulation of loot boxes in computer games.
	tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
	tabling member printed	Luke Pollard
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	82358
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2020 answer text <p>On 8 June 2020 in its response to the DCMS Select Committee Immersive and Addictive Technologies inquiry, the government announced its intention to run a call for evidence on loot boxes. This will launch shortly and will seek detailed information on the impact of loot boxes on players, particularly children and young people.</p><p>The government takes concerns around potential harms from loot boxes very seriously and stands ready to take action should the outcomes of the call for evidence support taking a new approach to ensure users are better protected.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 08/09/2020 15:24:34 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard

1248847

	registered interest
	date	04/11/2020
	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	Museums and Galleries: Coronavirus
	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 support the Government is providing to help ensure that museum curatorial staff are able to continue scientific work during the period of new national covid-19 lockdown from 5 November 2020.
	tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
	tabling member printed	Luke Pollard
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	111612
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2020 answer text <p>Museums and galleries have been ordered to close under the national restrictions. In line with the regulations, curatorial staff are still able to undertake their work on site where it is not reasonably possible for them to do so from home.</p><p>Museums and galleries have made their workplaces Covid secure, in line with the guidance produced by the National Museums Directors’ Council with support from DCMS.</p><p>The Government has provided substantial financial support for museums through the Culture Recovery Fund, the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, and other measures, which will help museums, and other cultural organisations, continue their important work.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 10/11/2020 15:35:55 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard

825740

	registered interest
	date	19/01/2018
	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	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport: Former Members
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how many former Conservative Members of Parliament who were defeated at the 2017 general election and who now work in his Department were appointed after a publicly advertised and open recruitment process.
	tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
	tabling member printed	Luke Pollard
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	123807
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2018 answer text <p>DCMS does not employ any former Conservative Members of Parliament defeated at the General Election 2017.</p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 29/01/2018 14:02:46 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
	tabling member	4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard

751254

	registered interest
	date	12/07/2017
	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	Mayflower: Anniversaries
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how much funding has been allocated to the Mayflower 400 year anniversary celebrations in (a) 2017, (b) 2018, (c) 2019, (d) 2020 and (e) 2021.
	tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
	tabling member printed	Luke Pollard
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	4464
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2017 answer text <p>DCMS, through VisitBritain, has allocated £260,000 in 2016-17 and £240,000 in 2017-18 towards the Mayflower 400 celebrations. Additionally, Mayflower 400 received a £35,000 Arts Council England grant towards the Mayflower Museum in February 2015. Plymouth has received other Arts Council grants which will benefit the celebrations indirectly.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 18/07/2017 15:29:55 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
	tabling member	4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard

753408

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2017
	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	Public Statues: Politicians
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how many statues there are of (a) male and (b) female politicians in Britain.
	tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
	tabling member printed	Luke Pollard
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	5661
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2017 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 21/07/2017 09:40:34 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
	tabling member	4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard

1405161

	registered interest
	date	21/01/2022
	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	Telecommunications
	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 plans to amend the Electronic Communications Code to allow fixed line telecoms operators to install apparatus on poles erected before 2017 without the need for a new wayleave agreement.
	tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
	tabling member printed	Luke Pollard
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	109340
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2022 answer text <p>The Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure Bill includes measures that are intended to make it easier for operators to deploy, upgrade and share telecommunications infrastructure, while protecting the rights and interests of individual landowners.</p><p>The De Minimis Impact Assessment (which can be accessed <a href="https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/3069/publications" target="_blank">here</a>) sets out the overall potential benefits that the Bill will deliver. Access to robust and reliable connectivity is critical to our future economic prosperity. The reforms we are bringing forward through the Bill will help achieve that goal.</p><p>The measures in the Bill were carefully developed to balance the public benefits they can deliver and any interference with individual property rights.</p><p>However, since the Bill was introduced, stakeholders have indicated that additional, substantial public benefit may be achieved if upgrading and sharing is more readily available, particularly in relation to telegraph poles installed on private land before 2017.</p><p>My officials are discussing this point with stakeholders to test the impact of the present proposals and to understand whether the correct balance has been achieved. If appropriate, changes will be considered.</p> answering member constituency Hornchurch and Upminster answering member printed Julia Lopez grouped question UIN 109341 109342 question first answered 31/01/2022 12:14:11 answering member 4647 label Biography information for Julia Lopez
	tabling member	4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard

1405162

	registered interest
	date	21/01/2022
	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	Broadband: Optical Fibres
	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 she has made of the potential effect on full fibre rollout of the provisions included in the Product Security & Telecommunications Infrastructure Bill to allow operators to access existing infrastructure under private land without the need to agree a new wayleave.
	tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
	tabling member printed	Luke Pollard
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	109341
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2022 answer text <p>The Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure Bill includes measures that are intended to make it easier for operators to deploy, upgrade and share telecommunications infrastructure, while protecting the rights and interests of individual landowners.</p><p>The De Minimis Impact Assessment (which can be accessed <a href="https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/3069/publications" target="_blank">here</a>) sets out the overall potential benefits that the Bill will deliver. Access to robust and reliable connectivity is critical to our future economic prosperity. The reforms we are bringing forward through the Bill will help achieve that goal.</p><p>The measures in the Bill were carefully developed to balance the public benefits they can deliver and any interference with individual property rights.</p><p>However, since the Bill was introduced, stakeholders have indicated that additional, substantial public benefit may be achieved if upgrading and sharing is more readily available, particularly in relation to telegraph poles installed on private land before 2017.</p><p>My officials are discussing this point with stakeholders to test the impact of the present proposals and to understand whether the correct balance has been achieved. If appropriate, changes will be considered.</p> answering member constituency Hornchurch and Upminster answering member printed Julia Lopez grouped question UIN 109340 109342 question first answered 31/01/2022 12:14:11 answering member 4647 label Biography information for Julia Lopez
	tabling member	4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard