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

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 28 November 2016 to Question 53795, what the (a) name, (b) job title and (c) responsibility is of each of the unpaid advisers currently based in the Digital Economy Unit of her Department.

The only unpaid advisers within the Digital Economy Unit are a) the members of the Council for Digital Inclusion, whose are responsible for creating the right environment for motivating and enabling more people to make the most of the internet:

• Two Directors/Managing Directors from leading UK retail banks
  
  
• One Director at a leading telecoms, broadband & media provider
  
  
• One CEO of an accessibility charity
  
  
• One Commercial Director of a social housing organisation
  
  
• Two senior leaders from leading digital inclusion and skills charities
  
  
• One Senior leader from a local authority

And b) the Future Communications Challenge Group (FCCG), who advise DCMS on how the UK can lead in the development of 5G technology:

• One President of a Learned Society
  
  
• Four Professors of Electronic and Radiocommunications Engineering
  
  
• Staff member at an Innovate UK sponsored Catapult project
  
  
• Two Heads of R&D at telecoms companies
  
  
• One Vice President of an electronics components company
  
  
• One Head of Standards and Industrial Affairs with a communications device manufacturer
  
  
• One Chair of an International Radio body
  
  
• One Representative of a manufacturing trade body
  
  
• One CTO of a communications equipment manufacturer
  
  
• One Head of telecoms at an investment bank
  
  
• One Employee of a communications security company
  
  
• Two independent radiocommunications experts

In abiding by the DPA, to provide the name of each adviser would incur a disproportionate cost.