Asked by: Ashley Fox (Conservative - Bridgwater)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether there are any requirements for civil servants to book a desk in advance in order to attend the office in person in each of (a) their Department's office workplaces and (b) the arm’s length bodies of their Department.
Answered by Stephanie Peacock - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Culture, Media and Sport)
DCMS staff are encouraged to book a desk to guarantee a work setting whilst working at our London HQ. Other non bookable work settings are also available for staff to use. Desk booking is not currently implemented at any other DCMS office location.
Desk booking services for arm’s length bodies within DCMS are not centrally held and would come at disproportionate cost to the department in producing this information.
Asked by: Ashley Fox (Conservative - Bridgwater)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to support the tourism sector.
Answered by Chris Bryant - Minister of State (Department for Culture, Media and Sport)
The Visitor Economy is a key sector in all of our constituencies.
DCMS continues to deliver a generational change in how we develop visitor destinations in England through the Local Visitor Economy Partnership Programme.
VisitBritain’s upcoming ‘Starring GREAT Britain’ campaign will invite the world to come to visit the UK’s iconic film and TV locations.
I am chairing the inaugural meeting of the Government’s new Visitor Economy Advisory Council next week, which will play a pivotal role in co-creating and delivering a growth strategy which I hope to publish later this year.
Asked by: Ashley Fox (Conservative - Bridgwater)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many civil servants are assigned to work in each of her Department's offices; and how many desks are available in each office.
Answered by Stephanie Peacock - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Culture, Media and Sport)
Location | Staff number | Desks available |
100 Parliament Street (100 PS) | 813 | 380 |
Manchester - Bloc, 17 Marble Street | 209 | 104* |
Belfast - Erskine House | 8 | 5 |
Cardiff - Tŷ William Morgan House | 7 | 8 |
Edinburgh - Queen Elizabeth House | 6 | 3 |
Darlington - Feethams House | 12 | 6 |
Birmingham - Hub | 3 | 2 |
Bristol - Hub | 6 | 17 |
Glasgow - Hub | 3 | 3 |
Leeds - Hub | 7 | 4 |
Liverpool - Hub | 4 | 3 |
Nottingham - Hub | 2 | 1 |
Sheffield - Hub | 1 | 4 |
Asked by: Ashley Fox (Conservative - Bridgwater)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many and what proportion of desks were occupied in each of her Department's offices in the most recent four weeks for which figures are available; and how many staff attended each office in person in the same period.
Answered by Stephanie Peacock - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Culture, Media and Sport)
Our most recently available figures are for the month of August. Our London HQ saw an average of 81% desk utilisation and 171 staff attending the office per day. In our secondary Manchester HQ desk utilisation was 74% for that same month. This gives an overall average of 78% usage across our primary headquarters.
Asked by: Ashley Fox (Conservative - Bridgwater)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much was spent on (a) new furniture and fittings and (b) other refurbishment of Ministerial offices in her Department since the dissolution of the last Parliament; and on what items this was spent.
Answered by Stephanie Peacock - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Culture, Media and Sport)
I can confirm that the Department for Culture, Media and Sport has not spent any money on new furniture and fittings or other refurbishment of Ministerial offices in her Department since the dissolution of the last Parliament.