Asked by: Jim Sheridan (Labour - Paisley and Renfrewshire North)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, on what occasions Ministers from his Department have met (a) representatives of society lotteries and (b) representatives of Camelot or the National Lottery since December 2012.
Answered by Helen Grant - Shadow Solicitor General
Details of Ministerial meetings are published quarterly on the gov.uk website and are available at:
Asked by: Jim Sheridan (Labour - Paisley and Renfrewshire North)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment he has made of the effect of fines imposed by the Information Commissioner's Office on reducing nuisance calls and texts.
Answered by Lord Vaizey of Didcot
No such assessment has been made, but we are aware that after ICO issued a large monetary penalty in November 2012 for spam text messages, the monitoring service Cloudmark reported a 10% drop in unsolicited spam SMS text messages. We remain keen to ensure robust enforcement of the regulations, so that companies breaking the rules are caught and penalised.
OurNuisance Calls Action Plan that was published on 30th March 2014, details the range of legislative and non-legislative measures being taken forward to tackle nuisance calls and texts and the plan can be viewed at: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/nuisance-calls-action-plan-unveiled
Asked by: Jim Sheridan (Labour - Paisley and Renfrewshire North)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the contribution by the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries on 25 February 2014, Official Report, column 95WH, when the consultation on modernising the Electronic Programme Guide regime will be launched.
Answered by Lord Vaizey of Didcot
Pursuant to my contribution on 25 February 2014, Official Report, column 95WH, DCMS will make an announcement on the publication date of the consultation in due course.
Asked by: Jim Sheridan (Labour - Paisley and Renfrewshire North)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will make it a condition of the award of a licence for a lottery that financial details of people playing that lottery should not be sold to third parties.
Answered by Helen Grant - Shadow Solicitor General
Any person or organisation handling personal information about individuals (including financial details) has a number of legal obligations to protect that information under the Data Protection Act 1998. These obligations are amplified in the current National Lottery licence (Section 22 on data protection), which runs until 2023. In addition, Camelot states in its privacy policy (http://www.national-lottery.co.uk/player/p/privacypolicy.ftl): ‘The Company will not sell your personal information to third parties.' As far as other Lotteries are concerned, the requirements of the Data Protection Act 1998 apply as usual, but there are no specific licence conditions - and there are no plans to introduce any.