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Written Question
Computers: Sales
Thursday 25th November 2021

Asked by: John Healey (Labour - Wentworth and Dearne)

Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the impact of graphics processing unit scalping on UK (a) competition policy and (b) businesses.

Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)

Under UK competition law, responsibility for investigating anticompetitive practices falls to the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), the UK’s competition authority. The government has ensured that the CMA has significant powers and expertise to investigate anti-competitive practices, and as an independent authority, the CMA has discretion to investigate competition cases which, according to its prioritisation principles, it considers most appropriate. The CMA may also carry out detailed examinations of why particular markets may not be working well and take remedial action to address features of markets which restrict competition.

GPUs are used for a number of applications and supply has been impacted by an ongoing global shortage. The current shortage is due to a confluence of unexpected events, including unprecedented pandemic-driven shifts in demand within a global market. HMG recognises the severity of the current chip shortage, the widespread international ramifications and the difficulties it has created for a number of UK firms and individuals. HMG are engaging affected UK sectors and key international partners to identify any available domestic or international mitigations.


Written Question
Big Society Capital
Wednesday 10th January 2018

Asked by: John Healey (Labour - Wentworth and Dearne)

Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether any of the £135 million announced by her Department on 4 January 2018 as pledged to Big Society Capital to fund stable and long-term accommodation for vulnerable groups has previously been allocated or announced.

Answered by Tracey Crouch

The release of a new tranche of £330m from dormant accounts to be distributed across the UK, announced on 4 January, includes an allocation of £135m to Big Society Capital. £300m of dormant account funding has previously been transferred to Big Society Capital. The allocation from the new tranche of dormant accounts will meet the intention announced by the Prime Minister in 2012 to provide £400m to Big Society Capital, and provides an additional £35m.

Previous announcements on the government’s funding commitment to Big Society Capital were not specific to housing, and Big Society Capital’s intention to use this funding to provide stable and long-term accommodation homes for vulnerable people, as well as to support local charities and social enterprises, has not previously been announced.


Written Question
Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme
Wednesday 17th December 2014

Asked by: John Healey (Labour - Wentworth and Dearne)

Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what the total annual sum of payments made under the Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme has been in each year since that scheme's inception.

Answered by Lord Vaizey of Didcot

Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme - Total Annual Payments


Financial Year

Annual Totals

£000s

2001-02

1,659

2002-03

8,453

2003-04

8,877

2004 -05

10,113

2005-06

15,066

2006-07

14,226

2007-08

14,957

2008-09

16,347

2009-10

14,930

2010-11

23,307

2011-12

7,034

2012-13

13,202

2013-14

18,581




Written Question
Performance Appraisal
Tuesday 14th October 2014

Asked by: John Healey (Labour - Wentworth and Dearne)

Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many officials in his Department who received the (a) exceeded, (b) met and (c) must improve performance mark under the Civil Service Employment Policy Performance Management System (i) had a disability, (ii) worked full-time and (iii) worked part-time in 2013-14.

Answered by Helen Grant

The table sets out the number of employees, within each performance category, who have declared a disability. The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) takes seriously its obligations to collect diversity data as required by the Equality Act 2010. All staff have been asked to provide personal diversity data to be held anonymously, and we continue to encourage increased declaration by staff. As such these figures will not be fully representative of workforce diversity

i) Disability

DCMS

EYR Rating

Disability

Exceptional

Good

Must Improve

Not disclosed

31

64

5

No

52

76

Prefer not to say

*

Yes

*

8

*The disclosure of numbers where they amount to fewer than five could enable identification of individuals to whom this information relates. This would amount to a release of their personal data in breach of the Data Protection Act

ii)&iii) Full –time/part –time

The following table sets out the number of employees, within each performance category, who work full time or part time.

DCMS

EYR Rating

Part time full time

Exceptional

Good

Must Improve

Full Time

79

138

*

Part Time

8

10

*

*The disclosure of numbers where they amount to fewer than five could enable identification of individuals to whom this information relates. This would amount to a release of their personal data in breach of the Data Protection Act


Written Question
Performance Appraisal
Tuesday 14th October 2014

Asked by: John Healey (Labour - Wentworth and Dearne)

Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many officials in his Department completed the Civil Service Employment Policy Performance Management System in 2013-14; how many and what proportion of those officials received the (a) exceeded, (b) met and (c) must improve performance mark; and how many and what proportion (i) did and (ii) did not qualify for a bonus under that process.

Answered by Helen Grant

The table sets out the number of employees who completed the Civil Service Employment Policy Performance Management System in 2013-14; and the proportion of those officials who received the (a) exceeded, (b) met and (c) must improve performance mark. and how many and what proportion who (i) did and (ii) did not qualify for a bonus.

DCMS

EYR Rating

Exceptional

Good

Must Improve

Grand Total

Total

87

148

5

240

Percentage

36%

62%

2%

100%

Bonus

Eligible

Not eligible

Grand Total

36%

64%

100%


Written Question
Performance Appraisal
Tuesday 14th October 2014

Asked by: John Healey (Labour - Wentworth and Dearne)

Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many officials in his Department of each (a) gender, (b) ethnicity and (c) age received the Civil Service Employment Policy Performance Management System's (i) exceeded, (ii) met and (iii) must improve performance mark in 2013-14.

Answered by Helen Grant

The table sets out the number of employees within each performance category for the 2013-14 reporting year for assessments received to date by gender, ethnicity and age.

a) Gender

DCMS

EYR Rating

Gender

Exceptional

Good

Must Improve

Female

45

62

*

Male

42

86

*

Grand Total

87

148

*The disclosure of numbers where they amount to fewer than five could enable identification of individuals to whom this information relates. This would amount to a release of their personal data in breach of the Data Protection Act

b) Ethnicity

The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) takes seriously its obligations to collect diversity data as required by the Equality Act 2010. All staff have been asked to provide personal diversity data to be held anonymously, and we continue to encourage increased declaration by staff. As such these figures will not be fully representative of workforce diversity

DCMS

EYR Rating

Ethnicity

Exceptional

Good

Must Improve

Not disclosed

35

64

5

Any Other Ethnic Background

*

Asian - Indian

*

Asian - Pakistani

*

*

Black - African

*

Black - Caribbean

*

Black - Other

*

Mixed - Black Caribbean & White

*

Mixed - Other

*

*

Prefer not to say

*

*

White

48

69

*The disclosure of numbers where they amount to fewer than five could enable identification of individuals to whom this information relates. This would amount to a release of their personal data in breach of the Data Protection Act

c) Age

DCMS

EYR Rating

Age

Exceptional

Good

Must Improve

16-24

*

5

25-29

16

12

30-34

14

21

35-39

11

30

*

40-44

10

16

*

45-49

17

20

*

50-54

10

23

55-59

*

13

*

60-64

*

7

65+

*

*The disclosure of numbers where they amount to fewer than five could enable identification of individuals to whom this information relates. This would amount to a release of their personal data in breach of the Data Protection Act