Asked by: Jim Dowd (Labour - Lewisham West and Penge)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will convene a joint meeting with organisations representing writers to discuss issues related to that profession.
Answered by Matt Hancock
Details of Ministerial meetings with external stakeholders are available via the Department’s transparency returns, which can be found at:
https://www.gov.uk/search?q=DCMS+ministerial+meetings.
Asked by: Jim Dowd (Labour - Lewisham West and Penge)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will meet the Writers' Guild to discuss issues related to writers.
Answered by Matt Hancock
Details of Ministerial meetings with external stakeholders are available via the Department’s transparency returns, which can be found at:
https://www.gov.uk/search?q=DCMS+ministerial+meetings.
Asked by: Jim Dowd (Labour - Lewisham West and Penge)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will meet the Society of Authors to discuss issues related to authors.
Answered by Matt Hancock
Details of Ministerial meetings with external stakeholders are available via the Department’s transparency returns, which can be found at:
https://www.gov.uk/search?q=DCMS+ministerial+meetings.
Asked by: Jim Dowd (Labour - Lewisham West and Penge)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will meet with the Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society to discuss issues related to writers.
Answered by Matt Hancock
Details of Ministerial meetings with external stakeholders are available via the Department’s transparency returns, which can be found at:
https://www.gov.uk/search?q=DCMS+ministerial+meetings.
Asked by: Jim Dowd (Labour - Lewisham West and Penge)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what meetings she has had with (a) individual writers and (b) representatives of writers since her appointment.
Answered by Matt Hancock
Details of Ministerial meetings with external stakeholders are available via the Department’s transparency returns, which can be found at:
https://www.gov.uk/search?q=DCMS+ministerial+meetings.
Asked by: Jim Dowd (Labour - Lewisham West and Penge)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, which organisations and individuals from the creative industries she has met since her appointment.
Answered by Matt Hancock
Details of Ministerial meetings with external stakeholders are available via the Department’s transparency returns, which can be found at:
https://www.gov.uk/search?q=DCMS+ministerial+meetings.
Asked by: Jim Dowd (Labour - Lewisham West and Penge)
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 ensure that government departments adhere to licensing requirements related to the scanning and photocopying of documents where secondary royalties may be due to the author or creator of such documents.
Answered by Matt Hancock
The Cabinet Office currently coordinates the purchase of a cross-Government licence on behalf of Departments, however each department is responsible for its own licensing adherence.
Asked by: Jim Dowd (Labour - Lewisham West and Penge)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether her Department is responsible for ensuring that government departments adhere to licensing requirements related to the scanning and photocopying of documents where secondary royalties may be due to the author or creator of such documents.
Answered by Matt Hancock
The Cabinet Office currently coordinates the purchase of a cross-Government licence on behalf of Departments, however each department is responsible for its own licensing adherence.
Asked by: Jim Dowd (Labour - Lewisham West and Penge)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what plans he has put in place to commemorate the 600th anniversary of the Battles of Harfleur and Agincourt.
Answered by Helen Grant - Shadow Solicitor General
The previous Secretary of State, the Rt. Hon Maria Miller MP announced in October last year a commitment of £10million of funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund for projects marking some of the UK's most important anniversaries and commemorative events including Agincourt 600. This will ensure that those moments which form a central part of our national history are commemorated and understood by people today.