Asked by: Lord Risby (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what discussions they have had with Team GB about reconsidering participation in the 2022 Winter Olympic games in Beijing.
Answered by Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Culture, Media and Sport)
Although the Government does not support sporting boycotts, athlete participation in the Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games is a decision for the British Olympic and British Paralympic Associations, who operate independently of the Government.
Asked by: Lord Risby (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many licences were granted by the Export Licensing Unit for the exportation of (1) art, (2) antiques, and (3) cultural goods, in each year between 2015 and 2020.
Answered by Baroness Barran - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education)
The number of export licences granted by the Art Council’s Export Licensing Unit in a particular year is published and laid before Parliament in the annual report of the Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art and Objects of Cultural Interest. The Committee’s Report for 2018-19 is expected to be published shortly. Figures for 2019-20 are not yet available. The earlier reports can be found here, and are attached:
https://www.artscouncil.org.uk/supporting-collections-and-cultural-property/rcewa-annual-reports
Asked by: Lord Risby (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to diversify the UK’s national telecommunications supply chain, particularly with regard to 5G infrastructure.
Answered by Baroness Barran - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education)
The security and resilience of the UK’s telecoms networks is of paramount importance. The government will publish its targeted diversification strategy focused on rebalancing the telecommunications supply chain in the coming weeks alongside the Telecoms Security Bill. As part of this, we are exploring ways to incentivise research and development in the UK telecoms sector, such as alternative 5G deployment models, and accelerating the development of ‘interoperable’ equipment - kit which can be used by multiple vendors - and making it standard across the sector.
The government has established a Diversification Taskforce - chaired by Lord Livingston of Parkhead - which will provide independent and expert advice to the Government, supporting the development of the strategy and ensuring that our measures are ambitious and effective.
Asked by: Lord Risby (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask Her Majesty's Government which provisions of the General Data Protection Regulation will be incorporated into UK law at the end of the transition period; and what new mechanisms will be put in place to regulate future UK-to EU data transfers.
Answered by Baroness Barran - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education)
At the end of the transition period, the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (EUWA) will retain the General Data Protection Regulation in UK domestic law.
We have made Regulations (The Data Protection, Privacy and Electronic Communications (Amendments etc)(EU Exit) Regulations 2019) under the EUWA to make necessary and appropriate changes to the retained legislation so that the UK’s data protection law continues to function effectively after the transition period. For example, the Regulations rename the GDPR as the ‘UK GDPR’, repatriate certain powers from the EU Commission to the Secretary of State and replace European terminology with UK equivalents.
At the end of the transition period, the UK will recognise EEA countries and EU institutions as continuing to be adequate for the purpose of the UK GDPR, so data can continue to flow from the UK to the EEA without further safeguards needing to be implemented.
In order for the free flow of data from the EEA to the UK to continue at the end of the transition period, we are seeking adequacy decisions from the EU under both the GDPR and the LED.
Asked by: Lord Risby (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the economic impact on the UK travel industry of the ban on direct flights between the UK and Sharm el Sheikh airport since the ban was imposed in 2015.
Answered by Lord Ashton of Hyde
We do not collect information on the economic value of outbound flights to specific global destinations and the value of them to the UK travel market. Therefore, it is difficult to make any assessment of the impact on the UK economy, since holidaymakers who would have booked to visit Sharm El Sheikh may have booked flights to other destinations instead. This would still benefit the UK travel industry.
Asked by: Lord Risby (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the loss to the UK travel industry if the ban on Sharm el Sheikh continues within the World Tourism Market, to be held at Earls Court on 4 November.
Answered by Lord Ashton of Hyde
We do not collect information on the economic value of outbound flights to specific global destinations and the value of them to the UK travel market. Therefore, it is difficult to make any assessment of the impact on the UK economy, since holidaymakers who would have booked to visit Sharm El Sheikh may have booked flights to other destinations instead. This would still benefit the UK travel industry.