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Written Question
Television: Visual Impairment
Tuesday 12th July 2022

Asked by: Baroness Crawley (Labour - Life peer)

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

To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to require television broadcasters improve accessibility for visually impaired people.

Answered by Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay - Shadow Minister (Culture, Media and Sport)

Her Majesty’s Government recognises that as part of a digitally inclusive society, television content should be accessible for all UK audiences, including people with visual impairments. As the independent regulator, Ofcom is responsible for holding broadcasters to account for the delivery of television access services, which includes the provision of audio-description services. Statutory targets are set by Ofcom which include five and ten year targets for licensed television services. Ofcom’s Code on Television Access Services sets out these obligations and provides guidance and best practice for broadcasters.

Written Question
Voluntary Work: Coronavirus
Monday 1st June 2020

Asked by: Baroness Crawley (Labour - Life peer)

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

To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure that volunteers who are providing support for isolated people can continue to provide that support throughout the recovery phase of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Answered by Baroness Barran - Shadow Minister (Education)

There has been an overwhelming response from the public with over 3 million people stepping up to volunteer to help those most in need.

Volunteers across the country are playing a vital role in the response to COVID-19, including supporting vulnerable people in the community who are isolating, and complementing the delivery of public services. There are over 589,000 approved NHS Volunteer Responders available in England to help with food delivery, transporting medicines and friendly phone calls, a staggering response to the call to action to support the NHS. The programme supports a flexible model of volunteering, with volunteers able to decide when they are on and off duty, to fit task based volunteering around other commitments and work.

The Government welcomes this support and is working closely with the Voluntary and Community Sector Emergencies Partnership to match the country’s strong base of willing volunteers with priority needs. This includes specific work examining how changing restrictions during the recovery phase may impact on volunteers and volunteering.

The Government is also working closely with the voluntary sector to ensure that volunteer mobilisation schemes are consistently rewarding, effective and safe for all those involved.

Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 25 Feb 2020
Birmingham Commonwealth Games Bill [HL]

"My Lords, as noble Lords have said, Birmingham 2022 will make us all proud. It will be a huge fillip for the city and for investing in it, alongside all the wonderful things that the Games themselves will bring. Briefly, I support my noble friend Lord Hunt of Kings Heath …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 03 Feb 2020
Birmingham Commonwealth Games Bill [HL]

"My Lords, it is always a delight to follow the noble Lord, Lord Moynihan, with all the experience he brings to these matters.

I am relieved that my noble friend Lord Snape has been brave enough to open a discourse on that Rubik’s Cube that is the layout and signage …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 03 Feb 2020
Birmingham Commonwealth Games Bill [HL]

"The noble Lord only came in to hear that.

Going back to the Bill, the Games will see a brand new aquatic centre, a redeveloped athletics stadium and 1,400 new homes. Some 71 Commonwealth nations and territories will take part, with 6,500 athletes and officials expected to attend. The global …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 19 Feb 2019
Brexit: Tourism

"My Lords, do the Government know exactly how many workers have been lost to the hospitality and tourism industry in the last couple of years, even before Brexit happens? What are the Government doing to assist those companies that feel they might close down?..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 06 Feb 2019
Broadcasting (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019

"My Lords, I have a very short question for the Minister. What would his advice be to UK broadcasters when it comes to working with those countries that are not party to the ECTT? I know that many broadcasters are concerned that these new regulations will not cover the areas …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 05 Nov 2018
Armistice Day: Centenary

"My Lords, my noble friend Lady Andrews has said that the poets got it right, and didn’t they just:

“In Flanders fields the poppies blow

Between the crosses, row on row

That mark our place”.

Later in John McCrae’s poem he writes:

“If ye break faith with us who die

…..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 04 Jun 2018
First World War: Empire and Commonwealth Troops

"My Lords, as a young child, I lived on Plymouth Hoe and played with my brothers around the magnificent war memorial that stands there. I had no idea then of the significance of the foreign names that threaded through the British sailors’ names. Indeed, today we are grateful to the …..."
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