Asked by: Lucy Powell (Labour (Co-op) - Manchester Central)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the answer of 18 October 2022 to Question 59875 on Future of Women's Football Review: Civil Servants, how many civil servants from the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport have been allocated to the Secretariat for the Women's Football Review.
Answered by Stuart Andrew - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Culture, Media and Sport)
The Chair of the Independent Review of the Future of Women's Football is being supported by a Secretariat of officials from the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and with some support from the Football Association and additional resources as appropriate.
While team level workforce data is not published, departmental level headcounts can be reviewed as part of national statistics on Civil Service employment numbers. These are published each quarter by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) as part of their Public Sector Employment statistical release. The latest figures were published 13 September 2022 and showed the position as at 30 June 2022. The next figures will be published 13 December for the end of September position.
More timely workforce information is also published by departments in the interests of transparency on GOV.UK each month. This monthly workforce management information (MWMI) includes additional breakdowns on department and agency employment numbers e.g. showing contingent labour, grade breakdowns and associated costs.
Asked by: Lucy Powell (Labour (Co-op) - Manchester Central)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, for what reason the announcement of the Arts Council England investment programme for 2023 to 2026 was delayed.
Answered by Stuart Andrew - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Culture, Media and Sport)
After careful consideration of the potential impact, my Department agreed with ACE to delay the announcement of its 2023-26 investment programme. I can now confirm the new date for the announcement is Friday 4 November and that this has been agreed with ACE.
I recognise that this delay caused some uncertainty for organisations in the short term but I am confident that this will be minimal as the investment programme begins on 1 April 2023.
Asked by: Lucy Powell (Labour (Co-op) - Manchester Central)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what proportion of the funding for Project Gigabit has been spent as of 25 October 2022.
Answered by Julia Lopez - Minister of State (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology)
Project Gigabit was launched in March 2021 and its spend for the financial year 2021-22 will be reported through DCMS’s Annual Report and Accounts, which will be published in due course.
In April 2022, Building Digital UK (BDUK) became an Executive Agency of DCMS, and will publish its own Annual Report and Accounts, including details of Project Gigabit spend, from next year.
Asked by: Lucy Powell (Labour (Co-op) - Manchester Central)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 19 October 2022 to Question 63206 on Project Gigabit: Voucher Schemes, what the value of vouchers issued as part of Project Gigabit has been in each (a) region and (b) nation of the UK; and what proportion of those vouchers were distributed to (i) homes and (ii) businesses in each of the last five years.
Answered by Julia Lopez - Minister of State (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology)
The following table shows the value of vouchers issued as part of Project Gigabit in each (a) region and (b) nation of the UK; and what proportion of those vouchers were distributed to (i) homes and (ii) businesses in each of the last five years.
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England | North East | of which business | £0 | £335,000 | £1,456,000 | £1,184,000 | £1,310,000 | £4,285,000 |
of which residential | £0 | £0 | £237,000 | £935,000 | £2,811,000 | £3,983,000 | ||
| of which business | £0 | £2,095,000 | £3,890,000 | £2,637,000 | £3,715,000 | £12,337,000 | |
of which residential | £0 | £39,000 | £524,000 | £1,495,000 | £6,142,000 | £8,200,000 | ||
Yorkshire and The Humber | of which business | £73,000 | £2,117,000 | £2,540,000 | £1,215,000 | £686,000 | £6,631,000 | |
of which residential | £0 | £31,000 | £164,000 | £363,000 | £1,205,000 | £1,762,000 | ||
East Midlands | of which business | £0 | £776,000 | £1,946,000 | £898,000 | £1,131,000 | £4,751,000 | |
of which residential | £0 | £4,000 | £38,000 | £310,000 | £2,038,000 | £2,389,000 | ||
West Midlands | of which business | £0 | £1,051,000 | £2,070,000 | £1,888,000 | £2,150,000 | £7,160,000 | |
of which residential | £0 | £1,000 | £109,000 | £980,000 | £4,380,000 | £5,468,000 | ||
East of England | of which business | £0 | £870,000 | £1,822,000 | £1,479,000 | £1,566,000 | £5,738,000 | |
of which residential | £0 | £0 | £98,000 | £1,402,000 | £6,345,000 | £7,845,000 | ||
London | of which business | £0 | £2,543,000 | £4,346,000 | £1,968,000 | £154,000 | £9,011,000 | |
of which residential | £0 | £11,000 | £170,000 | £167,000 | £87,000 | £434,000 | ||
South East | of which business | £0 | £2,421,000 | £4,896,000 | £2,947,000 | £4,572,000 | £14,836,000 | |
of which residential | £0 | £66,000 | £255,000 | £3,394,000 | £19,430,000 | £23,145,000 | ||
South West | of which business | £31,000 | £1,632,000 | £2,644,000 | £1,862,000 | £1,796,000 | £7,965,000 | |
of which residential | £0 | £325,000 | £991,000 | £3,351,000 | £5,245,000 | £9,912,000 | ||
Northern Ireland | of which business | £0 | £1,226,000 | £2,538,000 | £2,646,000 | £442,000 | £6,853,000 | |
of which residential | £0 | £1,000 | £139,000 | £2,856,000 | £3,434,000 | £6,431,000 | ||
Scotland | of which business | £12,000 | £621,000 | £1,496,000 | £1,169,000 | £380,000 | £3,678,000 | |
of which residential | £0 | £0 | £25,000 | £929,000 | £1,377,000 | £2,330,000 | ||
Wales | of which business | £0 | £165,000 | £1,000,000 | £1,428,000 | £2,369,000 | £4,960,000 | |
of which residential | £0 | £0 | £106,000 | £1,163,000 | £3,837,000 | £5,105,000 | ||
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2. Includes Vouchers Connected and Vouchers Issued that are yet to be connected. Vouchers issued can subsequently be cancelled, meaning the figures above are the maximum number of vouchers that could be connected in each country/region. |
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Asked by: Lucy Powell (Labour (Co-op) - Manchester Central)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what the annual spend is for (a) Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games, (b) Natural History Museum at Harwell, (c) 4th National Lottery Licence Competition, (d) Local Full Fibre Networks, (e) Shared Rural Network, (f) UNBOXED: Creativity in the UK, (g) Blythe House Programme and (h) Project Gigabit in each of the financial years from 2022-23 until the end year of each project, providing resource and capital spending.
Answered by Julia Lopez - Minister of State (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology)
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Birmingham Commonwealth Games | 396.4 |
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4th National Lottery Licence Competition | 22.7 | 22.8 | 10.1 | - | 0.0 | - | Does not include expected costs following legal challenge. Funding not scored at the Spending Review as costs relating to the 4th Licence are funded from the National Lottery Distribution Fund. |
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Shared Rural Network | 3.7 | 6.1 | 8.4 | 18.3 | 56.3 | 87.1 | Total funding announced for the programme is £1bn, made up of £500m Government funding matched by the private sector. |
UNBOXED: Creativity in the UK | 58.0 |
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All figures relate to funding profiles, actual expenditure may vary and will be reported through the Department’s Annual Report and Accounts. Funding and expenditure profiles beyond 24-25 will be subject to the next Spending Review. The figures included are as agreed at Spending Review 2021.
Asked by: Lucy Powell (Labour (Co-op) - Manchester Central)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what the running costs of Building Digital UK are; and how many (a) permanent staff and (b) contractors work for Building Digital UK.
Answered by Julia Lopez - Minister of State (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology)
As of October 2022, Building Digital UK employed 256 people, including 12 contractors.
The running costs for Building Digital UK for the 2022-2023 Financial Year (April - March) are forecast to be £39.3 million.
Asked by: Lucy Powell (Labour (Co-op) - Manchester Central)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how much and what proportion of the funding for Project Gigabit has been allocated in (a) England, (b) Wales, (c) Scotland and (d) Northern Ireland.
Answered by Julia Lopez - Minister of State (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology)
Project Gigabit funding for the planned procurements across each nation will be determined following thorough market reviews and using a modelled estimate of the costs involved in providing gigabit coverage.
Asked by: Lucy Powell (Labour (Co-op) - Manchester Central)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how many properties have been connected to gigabit broadband as a direct result of Project Gigabit funding.
Answered by Julia Lopez - Minister of State (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology)
We are making excellent progress with Project Gigabit. By the end of March 2022, we had delivered gigabit-capable broadband to 741,000 premises, ahead of our target of 720,000 premises. Combined with commercial gigabit delivery, we remain on track to hit our target of 85 per cent gigabit coverage by 2025.
We recently signed our first Project Gigabit contracts in North Dorset and Teesdale, and in total we have launched procurements to connect up to 520,000 premises to date.
Asked by: Lucy Powell (Labour (Co-op) - Manchester Central)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how many public sector hubs have been set up as part of Project Gigabit; if she will publish a list of those hubs; and what estimate she has made of the number of addressable premises that have been connected as a result of each of those hubs.
Answered by Julia Lopez - Minister of State (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology)
Since 2019, we have connected 6,600 public sector buildings and assets through our Local Full Fibre Network, Rural Gigabit Connectivity, and GigaHubs programmes. Our delivery figures are updated in Building Digital UK's quarterly Project Gigabit progress updates and will be confirmed in its 2023 Performance Report. We are considering how and where to publish further hub details.
As part of Project Gigabit, the government has made up to £110 million available to connect up to 7,000 rural public buildings such as schools, GP surgeries and libraries. Each hub is expected to result in at least one premises passed by a gigabit-capable connection - this is a conservative assumption as hubs are intended to stimulate local build from suppliers.
In June 2022, we announced a joint £82 million investment with the Department for Education (DfE) to connect up to 3,000 primary schools with gigabit broadband over the next three years.
Asked by: Lucy Powell (Labour (Co-op) - Manchester Central)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how many vouchers her Department has issued as part of Project Gigabit in each (a) region and (b) nation of the UK; and what proportion of those vouchers were distributed to (i) homes and (ii) businesses.
Answered by Julia Lopez - Minister of State (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology)
The following table shows the number of premises that were connected to broadband under the Gigabit Broadband Voucher Scheme between 2017/18 and 2021/22, by (a) region and (b) nation of the UK and by (i) homes and (ii) businesses:
Year | 2017/18 | 2018/19 | 2019/20 | 2020/21 | 2021/22 | TOTAL | ||
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England | North East | of which business | 0 | 120 | 540 | 330 | 290 | 1280 |
of which residential | 0 | 0 | 170 | 520 | 1680 | 2370 | ||
North West | of which business | 0 | 810 | 1530 | 890 | 920 | 4150 | |
of which residential | 0 | 80 | 790 | 1100 | 3600 | 5560 | ||
Yorkshire and The Humber | of which business | 30 | 1000 | 1270 | 470 | 260 | 3020 | |
of which residential | 0 | 60 | 300 | 320 | 910 | 1580 | ||
East Midlands | of which business | 0 | 280 | 730 | 340 | 340 | 1680 | |
of which residential | 0 | 10 | 50 | 320 | 1420 | 1800 | ||
West Midlands | of which business | 0 | 390 | 790 | 640 | 470 | 2290 | |
of which residential | 0 | 0 | 110 | 730 | 1920 | 2750 | ||
East of England | of which business | 0 | 310 | 700 | 540 | 490 | 2040 | |
of which residential | 0 | 0 | 130 | 1150 | 4540 | 5820 | ||
London | of which business | 0 | 900 | 1780 | 800 | 60 | 3540 | |
of which residential | 0 | 20 | 340 | 280 | 80 | 730 | ||
South East | of which business | 0 | 860 | 1810 | 1060 | 1280 | 5010 | |
of which residential | 0 | 130 | 420 | 2330 | 9070 | 11940 | ||
South West | of which business | 10 | 570 | 980 | 630 | 540 | 2730 | |
of which residential | 0 | 650 | 1320 | 2670 | 3580 | 8210 | ||
Northern Ireland | of which business | 0 | 430 | 950 | 900 | 140 | 2420 | |
of which residential | 0 | 0 | 170 | 1940 | 2370 | 4480 | ||
Scotland | of which business | 0 | 230 | 580 | 420 | 100 | 1330 | |
of which residential | 0 | 0 | 40 | 490 | 680 | 1210 | ||
Wales | of which business | 0 | 60 | 270 | 320 | 510 | 1170 | |
of which residential | 0 | 0 | 100 | 630 | 2030 | 2750 | ||
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Notes:
1. Rounded to the nearest 10
2. Includes Vouchers Connected and Vouchers Issued that are yet to be connected. Vouchers issued can subsequently be cancelled, meaning the figures above are the maximum number of vouchers that could be connected in each country/region
3. Encompasses 3 different schemes: Gigabit Voucher Scheme (GBVS), Rural Gigabit Connectivity (RGC) and UKGV (UK Gigabit Voucher). Each scheme had a different set of eligibility criteria
4. Business vouchers include sole traders, of which there were 31 vouchers issued and/or connected