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Written Question
Internet: Hate Crime
Thursday 1st March 2018

Asked by: Lord Mann (Labour - Life peer)

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions he has held with stakeholders on establishing a commissioner to (a) tackle and (b) provide guidance on tackling (i) online hate activity and (ii) cyber bullying.

Answered by Margot James

Ministers and officials have regular meetings and discussions with stakeholders on a range of issues, including online hate and abuse. Details of ministerial meetings are published quarterly on the Gov.uk website.

Written Question
Social Media: Codes of Practice
Tuesday 27th February 2018

Asked by: Lord Mann (Labour - Life peer)

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how he plans to encourage uptake and monitor compliance of the code of practice provided for by s103 of the Digital Economy Act 2017 by social media companies.

Answered by Margot James

Implementation of the social media code of practice, as required under the Digital Economy Act (2017), will be the first step of this process. The consultation on this, and measures proposed in the Internet Safety Strategy, closed on 7 December.

In her speech on 6 February, the Prime Minister confirmed that the Government would be bringing forward the social media code of practice as proposed in the green paper. The code of practice will set out guidance about what social media providers should do in relation to bullying conduct on their platforms. We will be setting out next steps to achieve the code of practice in our Government response which will be published in the spring.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 20 Feb 2018
Arts Council England Funding: Coalfield Communities

"Thank you, Mr Speaker, for generously granting this debate. I rise to congratulate Arts Council England on its incredible deftness and artistic creativity in presenting to the world a list of the coalfield communities that it funds that is so expansive as to defy most critical logic. In attempting to …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 20 Feb 2018
Arts Council England Funding: Coalfield Communities

"I will give way to my hon. Friend...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 20 Feb 2018
Arts Council England Funding: Coalfield Communities

"My hon. Friend makes a good point. I merely say that when it comes to the English coalfields, we are talking about zero, zero, zero, zero, year after year. So the young people are reliant on the schools, which do their best, but we all know that schools funding has …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 20 Feb 2018
Arts Council England Funding: Coalfield Communities

"It would bring a huge benefit. We are talking about small amounts of money to give us a chance with the few projects we ever put forward, which get knocked back repeatedly, as the evidence demonstrates. That requires a change of mindset in the arts world and in Arts Council …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 20 Feb 2018
Arts Council England Funding: Coalfield Communities

"I fear that the Minister is not quite getting it. Yes, touring people come through the wealthy villages in my constituency—I live in one—and good people like me pay good money to see these productions. But that is not in the former mining communities. In most of the former mining …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 20 Feb 2018
Arts Council England Funding: Coalfield Communities

"Will the Minister give way?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 20 Feb 2018
Arts Council England Funding: Coalfield Communities

"That rather sums up the problem across every coalfield community. Of course, there is the Harley Gallery. Prince Charles has been there on several occasions, which is not surprising given that he is directly related to the family who own the estate. It is a great investment. People come to …..."
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Written Question
Mayflower: East Midlands
Monday 15th January 2018

Asked by: Lord Mann (Labour - Life peer)

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 money committed to the East Midlands by his Department for the 2020 Mayflower Pilgrims 400th anniversary has been allocated to date.

Answered by Michael Ellis

VisitBritain has allocated £500,000 of funding to the Mayflower 400 team to assist in the delivery of the Mayflower commemorations. The national Mayflower Trail is a part of this project and includes Scrooby and Austerfield as Nottinghamshire sites of interest.