Asked by: Lord Stoddart of Swindon (Independent Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether, in supporting the EU Joint Action Plan against Disinformation, they have confidence that no member state, including the UK, sanctions or tolerates the spreading of disinformation.
Answered by Lord Ashton of Hyde
The Government welcomes the Commission’s ‘Joint Action Plan against Disinformation’ as an important step in efforts to counter this threat. All countries must take action to protect their societies against disinformation. By agreeing on the Action Plan, the EU has signalled that disinformation activity from any source will not be tolerated. The UK will do what is necessary to protect ourselves and work with our allies to do likewise.
Asked by: Lord Stoddart of Swindon (Independent Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government, in each of the last five years, how many (1) tourists, and (2) non-tourists, from the UK visited the EU, and how many (1) tourists, and (2) non-tourists, from countries in the EU visited the UK.
Answered by Baroness Mobarik
In May 2016, ONS released data detailing the movements of tourists between the UK and the EU in their 2015 Travel Trends report, we have highlighted the requested information below. This Department does not hold information for non-tourists.
Number of Visits to the UK from the EU (millions) | Number of Visits to the EU from the UK (millions) |
2011 - 20.3 | 2011 - 40.5 |
2012 - 20.6 | 2012 - 40.8 |
2013 - 21.6 | 2013 - 42.0 |
2014 - 23.0 | 2014 - 43.8 |
2015 - 24.2 | 2015 - 48.1 |
Asked by: Lord Stoddart of Swindon (Independent Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Neville-Rolfe on 1 February (HL5390), whether the consent of both Houses of Parliament will be required before the granting of the BBC Royal Charter.
Answered by Baroness Neville-Rolfe - Shadow Minister (Treasury)
The BBC's Royal Charter is granted by the Privy Council and all appropriate steps will be taken in advance of this, including debates in both Houses of Parliament. The format of these debates has not been decided.
Asked by: Lord Stoddart of Swindon (Independent Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether, in the light of press reports that recruits to the armed forces are to be questioned about their sexual orientation, other public organisations require such information to be revealed by job applicants.
Answered by Baroness Garden of Frognal
Monitoring the diversity of job applicants is a matter for each public body, though many public bodies do this in order to improve their equality and diversity monitoring more generally.
Public authorities may often collect such information to demonstrate they are complying with the public sector equality duty in the Equality Act 2010.
Job applicants should always have a choice about whether to reply.