Asked by: Alex Norris (Labour (Co-op) - Nottingham North and Kimberley)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, when (a) he and (b) Ministers in his Department last met with representatives of a Premier League football club to discuss safe standing.
Answered by Tracey Crouch
An announcement will be made shortly.
Asked by: Alex Norris (Labour (Co-op) - Nottingham North and Kimberley)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, when (a) he and (b) Ministers in his Department last met with representatives of a Championship football club to discuss safe standing; and what issues were discussed at that meeting.
Answered by Tracey Crouch
An announcement will be made shortly.
Asked by: Alex Norris (Labour (Co-op) - Nottingham North and Kimberley)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, when (a) he and (b) Ministers in his Department, last met with representatives of an English Football League club to discuss safe standing; and what issues were discussed at that meeting.
Answered by Tracey Crouch
An announcement will be made shortly.
Asked by: Alex Norris (Labour (Co-op) - Nottingham North and Kimberley)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what representations (a) he and (b) Ministers in his Department have received from (i) football clubs and (ii) local safety authorities on safe standing.
Answered by Tracey Crouch
Representations have been received from the following football clubs about the possible introduction of certain types of accommodation which could facilitate standing at parts of their respective grounds: Bristol City, Peterborough United, Grimsby Town, Shrewsbury Town and West Bromwich Albion. Representations about the all-seater policy have also been received from Southampton City Council. The Sports Grounds Safety Authority is the regulatory body responsible for overseeing and advising on safety at sports grounds. The SGSA discusses a wide range of issues with local safety authorities in the course of normal business.Asked by: Alex Norris (Labour (Co-op) - Nottingham North and Kimberley)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what the timetable is for the Government's review of the policy on banning all standing areas in the Premier League and Championship.
Answered by Tracey Crouch
An announcement will be made shortly.
Asked by: Alex Norris (Labour (Co-op) - Nottingham North and Kimberley)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what plans he has to monitor the effectiveness of the provisions of the Financial Guidance and Claims Act 2018 on the number of cold calls and text messages received for personal injury claims.
Answered by Margot James
We have included in the Financial Guidance and Claims Act 2018 provision to ban cold calls relating to claims management services except where the receiver has consented to such calls being made to them.
This measure will be implemented through the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulation (the framework underpinning electronic communications) and regulated by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), who provide monthly statistics on its website (www.ico.org.uk) on the number of reported nuisance calls. DCMS will continue to work closely with the ICO to monitor the number of cold calls and text messages received for personal injury claims, in light of the new measure.
We have also recently published a consultation on providing the ICO with the powers it needs to hold company directors directly responsible for direct marketing breaches. If preferred, this measure would fine rogue directors up to £500,000, raising this national nuisance at boardroom level.
Asked by: Alex Norris (Labour (Co-op) - Nottingham North and Kimberley)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment his Department has made of the effect on local communities of the ending of the Parks for People conservation grant scheme.
Answered by Michael Ellis
The Parks for People programme was a joint scheme between the Heritage Lottery Fund and Big Lottery Fund, and therefore such decisions are made independently of Government.