Asked by: Mark Hendrick (Labour (Co-op) - Preston)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, which periodicals and newspapers his Department subscribes to; how many of each such periodical his Department acquires; and what the cost of subscribing to such periodicals was in 2014.
Answered by Lord Vaizey of Didcot
The Department purchases the following newspapers each week:
The Sun M-F x 3 |
Financial Times M-F x 3 |
Times M-F X 3 |
Daily Telegraph M-F X 4 |
Independent M-F X 3 |
Guardian M-F X 3 |
Daily Mail M-F X 3 |
Daily Express M-F X 3 |
Daily Mirror M-F X 3 |
Racing Post M-F X1 Racing Post Saturday X 1 Racing Post Sunday X 1 Guardian Saturday X 1 |
Financial Times Saturday X 1 |
Independent-Saturday X 1 |
Daily Mail Saturday X 1 |
Daily Express Saturday X 1 |
Sun Saturday X 1 |
Times Saturday X 1 |
Daily Mirror Sat X 1 |
Daily Telegraph Saturday X 1 Sunday Times X 1 Sunday Telegraph X 1 Independent on Sunday X 1 |
Observer X 1 Mail On Sunday X 1 |
Sunday Express X 1 |
Sunday Mirror X 1 |
The Sun On Sunday X 1 |
Spectator X 3 |
New Statesman X 1 Arts Review X 1 |
The total amount spent on newspapers for Financial Year 2014-15 was £9659.16
Asked by: Mark Hendrick (Labour (Co-op) - Preston)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what iftar events Ministers in his Department attended in an official capacity during Ramadan in 2015.
Answered by Lord Vaizey of Didcot
Neither myself, the Secretary of State or the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Sport, Tourism and Heritage have attended any Iftar events in an official capacity during Ramadan in 2015.
Asked by: Mark Hendrick (Labour (Co-op) - Preston)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, which women's (a) rugby, (b) cricket and (c) football matches (i) he and (ii) Ministers of his Department have attended in an official capacity since taking office.
Answered by Lord Vaizey of Didcot
Since the new Government has been formed, both I, the Minister of State for Culture and the Digital Economy, and the Secretary of State have yet to attend any women’s rugby, cricket and football matches in an official capacity. The Minister for Sport and Tourism has attended the Kent Girls and Ladies League Final and she is scheduled to attend the Ladies Ashes in August.
Asked by: Mark Hendrick (Labour (Co-op) - Preston)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what plans (a) he and (b) Ministers in his Department have to visit (i) the Guild Wheel, (ii) Preston North End Football Club, (iii) the Harris Museum and Art Gallery and (iv) other sites in Preston in an official capacity in the next year.
Answered by Lord Vaizey of Didcot
A regional visit plan has not been finalised. However, at this time there are no current plans for myself, the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Sport, Tourism and Heritage or the Secretary of State to visit Preston.
Asked by: Mark Hendrick (Labour (Co-op) - Preston)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what plans his Department has to commemorate the tercentenary of the Battle of Preston in 1715.
Answered by Lord Vaizey of Didcot
The DCMS does not have any plans to commemorate the tercentenary of the Battle of Preston.
However, Government does recognise the importance of events like the Battle of Preston, and through the Heritage Lottery Fund, have made £10m available for projects marking some of the UK’s most important anniversaries and commemorative events.
Details on how to apply to this contestable fund can be found here - http://www.hlf.org.uk/about-us/news-features/funding-anniversaries
Asked by: Mark Hendrick (Labour (Co-op) - Preston)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, which tourist and cultural attractions (a) he and (b) Ministers in his Department (i) have visited and (ii) plan to visit in (A) Preston constituency, (B) Lancashire, (C) North West England and (D) London in 2014.
Answered by Helen Grant
This information could only be provided at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Mark Hendrick (Labour (Co-op) - Preston)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how often Lancashire has specifically been featured in his Department's overseas promotion of tourism in the UK in the last four years.
Answered by Helen Grant
Lancashire features strongly in VisitBritain’s marketing activity on their consumer website. Lancashire is also featured in a number of the GREAT Britain Campaign pillar guides for journalists including the Golf Coast via Sport is GREAT, the Ribble Valley Food Trail via Food is GREAT and Carnforth, as the location of the film Brief Encounters, under Culture is GREAT. Blackpool features prominently via VisitBritain’s video portal and on their consumer website. This promotional activity is paying dividends with 253,000 inbound visits to the region in 2013 spending £143 million in the county. This compares to 239,000 and £105 million in 2012.
Asked by: Mark Hendrick (Labour (Co-op) - Preston)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will discuss with the BBC Trust measures to increase coverage of life, history and culture in Lancashire across the BBC national television and radio network.
Answered by Lord Vaizey of Didcot
The Secretary of State has regular discussions with the BBC Trust but has no plans to discuss this issue. Under the terms of the BBC’s Charter and Agreement, the BBC is required to “promote awareness of different cultures and alternative viewpoints, through content that reflects the lives of different people and different communities within the UK”. The BBC is however operationally and editorially independent of Government and there is no provision for the Government to intervene in the corporation’s day-to-day operations.
Asked by: Mark Hendrick (Labour (Co-op) - Preston)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what facilities there are in buildings owned by his Department for employees of each religious faith to pray.
Answered by Helen Grant
The Department does not own any buildings.
Asked by: Mark Hendrick (Labour (Co-op) - Preston)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what Government funding is given to the UK film industry; what contribution the UK film industry makes to the UK economy; and what steps the Government is taking to attract overseas film production and investment to the UK.
Answered by Lord Vaizey of Didcot
In 2012-13 the Government provided around £80m in grant in aid and lottery funding to the British Film Institute (BFI) to support film in the UK, and paid out £205million in Film Tax Relief. The UK film industry makes a significant contribution to the UK economy, directly generating 43,900 jobs and contributing £1.6billion to national GDP (Oxford Economics Report 2012). The UK has one of the world's most generous film tax reliefs which attracted over £1billion in inward investment in 2013. Recent changes to the Film Tax Relief announced at Budget 2014 will also encourage further film production to the UK.