Asked by: Louise Haigh (Labour - Sheffield, Heeley)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many people have taken part in the Cyber Retraining Academy course.
Answered by Matt Hancock
The HMG Cyber Retraining Academy was a pilot initiative to retrain adults for a career in cyber security. 55 people enrolled.
The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport is now reviewing the outcomes of the pilot. This will help determine how government investment can be best used to retrain adults to become cyber security professionals and provide an immediate boost to the cyber security workforce in the UK.
Asked by: Louise Haigh (Labour - Sheffield, Heeley)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much she has spent on each advertising platform by the Go Superfast advertising campaign.
Answered by Matt Hancock
A breakdown of media spend by advertising platform for the Go Superfast campaign is as below:
Television £2,398,000
Video on Demand £284,000
Out of Home (posters) £2,000,000
Press (national and regional) £828,000
Radio £300,000
Digital £928,000
In addition, the Department spent £987,620.34 on production costs.
Asked by: Louise Haigh (Labour - Sheffield, Heeley)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much the Government spent on advertising for its Go Superfast campaign by (a) the smallest available geographic area, (b) city and (c) region.
Answered by Matt Hancock
It is not possible to get a regional split for all media spend as the campaign was bought on a national basis.
Asked by: Louise Haigh (Labour - Sheffield, Heeley)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much her Department spent on the Go Superfast advertising campaign in (a) 2014 and (b) 2015.
Answered by Matt Hancock
The Department spent a) £4,287,620.34 on the Go Superfast advertising campaign in 2014 and b) £3,438,000 in 2015. The campaign increased public awareness of, and interest in, superfast broadband in order to drive take up across the UK.
Asked by: Louise Haigh (Labour - Sheffield, Heeley)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, for what reasons she is not a member of the European Union Exit and Trade Committee.
Answered by Matt Hancock
The list of Cabinet Committees and Implementation Taskforces, and their membership, is published here; https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-cabinet-committees-system-and-list-of-cabinet-committees. Other Ministers attend the European Union Exit and Trade Committee where the agenda item concerns their portfolio.
Asked by: Louise Haigh (Labour - Sheffield, Heeley)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of which sections of the Data Protection Act 1998 will be repealed in order to ensure consistency with the General Data Protection Regulations.
Answered by Matt Hancock
The Government is still assessing the best legislative approach to incorporating the GDPR into UK law. We will make an announcement in due course.
Asked by: Louise Haigh (Labour - Sheffield, Heeley)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate she has made of the number of accounting entities in the UK that exchange data with other such entities in other EU countries.
Answered by Matt Hancock
Large amounts of data are exchanged between the UK and other EU countries. However, it is currently not possible to measure by entity the exact volume or the origin/destination of the data.
Asked by: Louise Haigh (Labour - Sheffield, Heeley)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether the Government has reached a decision on whether to support the European Commission in the case of La quadrature du Net and Others v Commission T-738/16.
Answered by Matt Hancock
The UK Government has formally intervened in the legal challenge to the EU-US Privacy Shield Agreement lodged at the General Court of the Court of Justice of the European Union in the case of La Quadrature du Net and others v Commission (Case T-738/16).
The UK Government will support the Commission in favour of the EU-US Privacy Shield Decision, against the legal challenge.
Asked by: Louise Haigh (Labour - Sheffield, Heeley)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what proportion of civil servants in her Department are (a) under 30 and (b) over 50 years of age.
Answered by Matt Hancock
a) 24% of civil servants are aged under 30
b) 19% of civil servants are aged over 50, that is aged at least 51.
The figures above include permanent and fixed term employees as well as loans/secondments in to the department and employees on paid maternity leave. The data was sampled on 1st February 2017.
Asked by: Louise Haigh (Labour - Sheffield, Heeley)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, which projects within her Department have been awarded an amber rating by the Infrastructure Projects Authority at the time of the most recent award.
Answered by Lord Watson of Wyre Forest
The Infrastructure and Projects Authority gave the 700 MHz Spectrum Clearance programme an Amber Delivery confidence rating in June 2016. This reflected the fact that the programmme was in the start up phase and that the completion date for the programme had not been confirmed. The programme has now move into the delivery stage. We expect it to be completed by mid 2020 subject to a review in the Autumn. We have invited IPA will review the programme again later this year.