Asked by: Amanda Milling (Conservative - Cannock Chase)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, when she plans to publish the proposals from the Gambling Commission for the reform of the Society Lottery sector.
Answered by Tracey Crouch
The Government’s response to the CMS Select Committee’s report on society lotteries advised that it intended to explore all the recommendations further, with advice from the Gambling Commission. We are carefully considering the issues raised by the Select Committee and continue to take advice from the Gambling Commission as we consider policy options.
We expect that the Gambling Commission will publish their advice in due course, when Government has made an announcement on its conclusions.
The Gambling Commission are currently consulting on on increasing provisions around transparency for society lotteries. The consultation closes on 30 September 2017 and can be found here:
http://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/news-action-and-statistics/Consultations/Open-consultations/Have-your-say-on-changes-to-society-lottery-codes-of-practice.aspx
Asked by: Amanda Milling (Conservative - Cannock Chase)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what plans her Department has to bring forward proposals for regulatory reform of the Society Lottery sector.
Answered by Tracey Crouch
The Government’s response to the CMS Select Committee’s report on society lotteries advised that it intended to explore all the recommendations further, with advice from the Gambling Commission. We are carefully considering the issues raised by the Select Committee and continue to take advice from the Gambling Commission as we consider policy options.
We expect that the Gambling Commission will publish their advice in due course, when Government has made an announcement on its conclusions.
The Gambling Commission are currently consulting on on increasing provisions around transparency for society lotteries. The consultation closes on 30 September 2017 and can be found here:
http://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/news-action-and-statistics/Consultations/Open-consultations/Have-your-say-on-changes-to-society-lottery-codes-of-practice.aspx
Asked by: Amanda Milling (Conservative - Cannock Chase)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much funding has been made available from the public purse to support the development of small and community BMX clubs in the UK each year since 2010.
Answered by Tracey Crouch
Since 2010 the Big Lottery Fund has invested £802,392 of National Lottery money in 22 different BMX clubs and projects across the UK. Since 2010, Sport England has invested £1,657,741 of National Lottery money in 28 different BMX clubs and projects across England. Sport Wales, Sport Scotland and Sport Northern Ireland are responsible for investing in cycling in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland respectively.
British Cycling is the National Governing Body (NGB) responsible for supporting and growing grassroots cycling in Britain. It receives public investment from Sport England, which includes funding to support the growth of BMX across Britain.
Asked by: Amanda Milling (Conservative - Cannock Chase)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much funding the Arts Council has given to (a) independent museums and art galleries, (b) regimental museums, (c) local authority-run museums and (d) local authority-run art galleries in each year since 2010.
Answered by Matt Hancock
Neither DCMS nor Arts Council England hold this information. While Arts Council England fund these types of museum and galleries they do not break down their funding awards in these categories.
Asked by: Amanda Milling (Conservative - Cannock Chase)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much funding the Arts Council has given to national museums and art galleries in each year since 2010.
Answered by Matt Hancock
The table below shows the amount Arts Council England have awarded to national museums and art galleries, as well as the DCMS-sponsored Horniman Museum and Geffrye Museum, each year, from 2010.
Year | Amount (£) |
2010/11 | £232,500 |
2011/12 | £780,531 |
2012/13 | £8,630,203 |
2013/14 | £9,098,855 |
2014/15 | £2,776,648 |
2015/16 | £1,623,260 |
2016/17 | £4,229,745 |
Asked by: Amanda Milling (Conservative - Cannock Chase)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will take steps to map the provision of data centres in England and Wales.
Answered by Matt Hancock
There are several organisations, such as Colo-X, who make freely available, up-to-date maps of commercial colocation data centres in the UK. These maps can be found at: http://www.colo-x.com/data-centre-database-map/
Asked by: Amanda Milling (Conservative - Cannock Chase)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate the Government has made of the economic value of tourism.
Answered by Tracey Crouch
Tourism provides more than £62bn of GVA to the UK economy and one in ten jobs are in the tourism industries. The Government Tourism Action Plan which aims to increase international visits outside of London, will ensure the economic benefit of tourism is felt across the country.
Asked by: Amanda Milling (Conservative - Cannock Chase)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what proportion of English tourism funding is allocated to the Midlands.
Answered by Tracey Crouch
Government funding for tourism, which is dispersed through VisitBritain and VisitEngland, is not allocated regionally but instead focuses on promoting the country as a whole and thematically. It is not possible to ascertain the precise figures for funding given to the different regions across England.
Other streams of non-central Government funding, including funding from local authorities and businesses, also supports tourism at a local level.
Asked by: Amanda Milling (Conservative - Cannock Chase)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what proportion of tourism funding has been allocated to the Midlands in each year since 2010.
Answered by Tracey Crouch
Government funding for tourism, which is dispersed through VisitBritain and VisitEngland, is not allocated regionally but instead focuses on promoting the country as a whole and thematically. It is not possible to ascertain the precise figures for funding given to the different regions across England.
Other streams of non-central Government funding, including funding from local authorities and businesses, also supports tourism at a local level.
Asked by: Amanda Milling (Conservative - Cannock Chase)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what proportion of English tourism funding has been allocated to (a) London and the South East and (b) other English regions in each year since 2010.
Answered by Tracey Crouch
Government funding for tourism, which is dispersed through VisitBritain and VisitEngland, is not allocated regionally but instead focuses on promoting the country as a whole and thematically. It is not possible to ascertain the precise figures for funding given to the different regions across England.
Other streams of non-central Government funding, including funding from local authorities and businesses, also supports tourism at a local level.