Asked by: David Jones (Conservative - Clwyd West)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, when she plans to meet the acting Chair of the S4C Authority.
Answered by Nigel Adams
Ministers regularly meet with a range of people on a range of issues.
Officials have engaged closely with S4C, including the acting Chair of the S4C Authority, on a range of relevant matters.
Asked by: David Jones (Conservative - Clwyd West)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, when she last met the Chair of the S4C Authority.
Answered by Nigel Adams
Ministers regularly meet with a range of people on a range of issues.
Officials have engaged closely with S4C, including the acting Chair of the S4C Authority, on a range of relevant matters.
Asked by: David Jones (Conservative - Clwyd West)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what provisions he has made to ensure that in the event of no agreement being reached under Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union no data that originates outside the UK will be transmitted to the EU without a data adequacy arrangement.
Answered by Margot James
As part of the UK’s future relationship with the EU, we want to achieve a deal on data protection that provides stability and confidence for EU and UK business, public bodies and individuals, to maintain and develop the UK’s strong trading, economic and security links with the EU. That is why the government recently set out in our White Paper (available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-future-relationship-between-the-united-kingdom-and-the-european-union) that we are ready to begin preliminary discussions on an adequacy assessment, so that a data protection agreement, allowing for the continued protection and exchange of personal data, is in place as soon as possible. Following the UK’s exit from the EU, the government will control the flow of data from the UK to other countries, while the EU will control the flow of data from the EU.
Whilst we are confident that achieving an agreement on adequacy is in the interests of both the UK and the EU, a responsible government should prepare for all potential outcomes. As such, we will continue to engage with organisations that transfer personal data across borders to help them understand how they would need to operate under a range of outcomes on data protection.
Asked by: David Jones (Conservative - Clwyd West)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what provisions he has made to ensure that in the event of no agreement being reached under Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union no data that originates outside the UK will be transmitted to the EU without a data adequacy arrangement.
Answered by Margot James
As part of the UK’s future relationship with the EU, we want to achieve a deal on data protection that provides stability and confidence for EU and UK business, public bodies and individuals, to maintain and develop the UK’s strong trading, economic and security links with the EU. That is why the government recently set out in our White Paper (available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-future-relationship-between-the-united-kingdom-and-the-european-union) that we are ready to begin preliminary discussions on an adequacy assessment, so that a data protection agreement, allowing for the continued protection and exchange of personal data, is in place as soon as possible. Following the UK’s exit from the EU, the government will control the flow of data from the UK to other countries, while the EU will control the flow of data from the EU.
Whilst we are confident that achieving an agreement on adequacy is in the interests of both the UK and the EU, a responsible government should prepare for all potential outcomes. As such, we will continue to engage with organisations that transfer personal data across borders to help them understand how they would need to operate under a range of outcomes on data protection.
Asked by: David Jones (Conservative - Clwyd West)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what representations he has made to the organisers of the Eurovision Song Contest on their refusal to allow the display of the Red Dragon flag at the 2016 contest.
Answered by Lord Vaizey of Didcot
I understand that the governing body of the Eurovision Song Contest has reversed its ban on the display of the Red Dragon flag. We welcome this example of European co-operation, and wish Joe Woolford and Jake Shakeshaft the best of luck on 14 May.
Asked by: David Jones (Conservative - Clwyd West)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of work to increase broadband line speeds (a) from below 2 mbps to 10 mbps and (b) above 10 mbps to date.
Answered by Lord Vaizey of Didcot
Government, Local Authority and European Union funding combined has invested over £1.7billion to extend superfast coverage (download speeds of 24Mbps and above) to 95% premises in the UK by the end of 2017. This investment will also see universal coverage of basic broadband (2Mbps). There is no spend specifically to provide download speeds of 10Mbps.
BDUK has spent a total of £254.33m to the end of December 2014 on rolling out Superfast Broadband. This includes £127.76m in annual budget transfers to the Devolved Administrations, which may not all have been spent on delivery to date.
Asked by: David Jones (Conservative - Clwyd West)
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 contribution of creative industries to the economy.
Answered by Lord Vaizey of Didcot
The Creative Industries Economic Estimates were published on 13 January 2015. They show that the sector has grown with the GVA in 2013 as £76.9bn, an 9.9% increase. The sector accounted for 1.71 million jobs in 2013 and the value of services exported was £17.3 billion in 2012Asked by: David Jones (Conservative - Clwyd West)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether he plans to meet the (a) chairman and (b) chief executive of Sianel 4 Cymru before 31 March 2015.
Answered by Lord Vaizey of Didcot
There are no current plans for the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport to meet with the chairman and chief executive of Sianel 4 Cymru before 31 March 2015. However, he previously met the Chairman and the Chief Executive, as well as other S4C representatives, during a visit to S4C’s Headquarters in Llanishen, Cardiff on 17th July this year. The previous Secretary of State, Maria Miller, also met with both Huw Jones and Ian Jones on 13th November 2013. In these meetings future funding was discussed.
All such meetings are detailed in the Department’s regularly published transparency returns: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications?keywords=dcms+ministerial+meetings&publication_filter_option=transparency-data&topics%5B%5D=all&departments%5B%5D=department-for-culture-media-sport&official_document_status=all&world_locations%5B%5D=all&from_date=&to_date=&commit=Refresh+results
Officials from DCMS are in regular contact with S4C equivalents on a range of issues. S4C, as with all publicly funded bodies, has its Exchequer funding set out to the end of the current SR period. This means that in 2015/16 S4C will continue to receive £6.787m of funding from DCMS. In addition to this, the current operating agreement between the BBC and S4C sets out further licence fee funding for 2016-17 (£74.5m).
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Asked by: David Jones (Conservative - Clwyd West)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what recent discussions he has had with Sianel 4 Cymru on future funding for that organisation.
Answered by Lord Vaizey of Didcot
There are no current plans for the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport to meet with the chairman and chief executive of Sianel 4 Cymru before 31 March 2015. However, he previously met the Chairman and the Chief Executive, as well as other S4C representatives, during a visit to S4C’s Headquarters in Llanishen, Cardiff on 17th July this year. The previous Secretary of State, Maria Miller, also met with both Huw Jones and Ian Jones on 13th November 2013. In these meetings future funding was discussed.
All such meetings are detailed in the Department’s regularly published transparency returns: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications?keywords=dcms+ministerial+meetings&publication_filter_option=transparency-data&topics%5B%5D=all&departments%5B%5D=department-for-culture-media-sport&official_document_status=all&world_locations%5B%5D=all&from_date=&to_date=&commit=Refresh+results
Officials from DCMS are in regular contact with S4C equivalents on a range of issues. S4C, as with all publicly funded bodies, has its Exchequer funding set out to the end of the current SR period. This means that in 2015/16 S4C will continue to receive £6.787m of funding from DCMS. In addition to this, the current operating agreement between the BBC and S4C sets out further licence fee funding for 2016-17 (£74.5m).
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Asked by: David Jones (Conservative - Clwyd West)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when he or his predecessor last met the (a) Chairman and (b) Chief Executive of Sianel 4 Cymru.
Answered by Lord Vaizey of Didcot
There are no current plans for the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport to meet with the chairman and chief executive of Sianel 4 Cymru before 31 March 2015. However, he previously met the Chairman and the Chief Executive, as well as other S4C representatives, during a visit to S4C’s Headquarters in Llanishen, Cardiff on 17th July this year. The previous Secretary of State, Maria Miller, also met with both Huw Jones and Ian Jones on 13th November 2013. In these meetings future funding was discussed.
All such meetings are detailed in the Department’s regularly published transparency returns: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications?keywords=dcms+ministerial+meetings&publication_filter_option=transparency-data&topics%5B%5D=all&departments%5B%5D=department-for-culture-media-sport&official_document_status=all&world_locations%5B%5D=all&from_date=&to_date=&commit=Refresh+results
Officials from DCMS are in regular contact with S4C equivalents on a range of issues. S4C, as with all publicly funded bodies, has its Exchequer funding set out to the end of the current SR period. This means that in 2015/16 S4C will continue to receive £6.787m of funding from DCMS. In addition to this, the current operating agreement between the BBC and S4C sets out further licence fee funding for 2016-17 (£74.5m).
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