Asked by: Amanda Milling (Conservative - Cannock Chase)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much funding has been made available from the public purse to support the development of small and community BMX clubs in the UK each year since 2010.
Answered by Tracey Crouch
Since 2010 the Big Lottery Fund has invested £802,392 of National Lottery money in 22 different BMX clubs and projects across the UK. Since 2010, Sport England has invested £1,657,741 of National Lottery money in 28 different BMX clubs and projects across England. Sport Wales, Sport Scotland and Sport Northern Ireland are responsible for investing in cycling in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland respectively.
British Cycling is the National Governing Body (NGB) responsible for supporting and growing grassroots cycling in Britain. It receives public investment from Sport England, which includes funding to support the growth of BMX across Britain.
Asked by: Amanda Milling (Conservative - Cannock Chase)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much funding the Arts Council has given to (a) independent museums and art galleries, (b) regimental museums, (c) local authority-run museums and (d) local authority-run art galleries in each year since 2010.
Answered by Matt Hancock
Neither DCMS nor Arts Council England hold this information. While Arts Council England fund these types of museum and galleries they do not break down their funding awards in these categories.
Asked by: Amanda Milling (Conservative - Cannock Chase)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much funding the Arts Council has given to national museums and art galleries in each year since 2010.
Answered by Matt Hancock
The table below shows the amount Arts Council England have awarded to national museums and art galleries, as well as the DCMS-sponsored Horniman Museum and Geffrye Museum, each year, from 2010.
Year | Amount (£) |
2010/11 | £232,500 |
2011/12 | £780,531 |
2012/13 | £8,630,203 |
2013/14 | £9,098,855 |
2014/15 | £2,776,648 |
2015/16 | £1,623,260 |
2016/17 | £4,229,745 |
Asked by: Amanda Milling (Conservative - Cannock Chase)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will take steps to map the provision of data centres in England and Wales.
Answered by Matt Hancock
There are several organisations, such as Colo-X, who make freely available, up-to-date maps of commercial colocation data centres in the UK. These maps can be found at: http://www.colo-x.com/data-centre-database-map/
Asked by: Amanda Milling (Conservative - Cannock Chase)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate the Government has made of the economic value of tourism.
Answered by Tracey Crouch
Tourism provides more than £62bn of GVA to the UK economy and one in ten jobs are in the tourism industries. The Government Tourism Action Plan which aims to increase international visits outside of London, will ensure the economic benefit of tourism is felt across the country.
Asked by: Amanda Milling (Conservative - Cannock Chase)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what proportion of English tourism funding is allocated to the Midlands.
Answered by Tracey Crouch
Government funding for tourism, which is dispersed through VisitBritain and VisitEngland, is not allocated regionally but instead focuses on promoting the country as a whole and thematically. It is not possible to ascertain the precise figures for funding given to the different regions across England.
Other streams of non-central Government funding, including funding from local authorities and businesses, also supports tourism at a local level.
Asked by: Amanda Milling (Conservative - Cannock Chase)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what proportion of tourism funding has been allocated to the Midlands in each year since 2010.
Answered by Tracey Crouch
Government funding for tourism, which is dispersed through VisitBritain and VisitEngland, is not allocated regionally but instead focuses on promoting the country as a whole and thematically. It is not possible to ascertain the precise figures for funding given to the different regions across England.
Other streams of non-central Government funding, including funding from local authorities and businesses, also supports tourism at a local level.
Asked by: Amanda Milling (Conservative - Cannock Chase)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what proportion of English tourism funding has been allocated to (a) London and the South East and (b) other English regions in each year since 2010.
Answered by Tracey Crouch
Government funding for tourism, which is dispersed through VisitBritain and VisitEngland, is not allocated regionally but instead focuses on promoting the country as a whole and thematically. It is not possible to ascertain the precise figures for funding given to the different regions across England.
Other streams of non-central Government funding, including funding from local authorities and businesses, also supports tourism at a local level.
Asked by: Amanda Milling (Conservative - Cannock Chase)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what plans the Government has to support the increase of data centre capacity in the UK.
Answered by Matt Hancock
The UK’s data centre industry is a highly successful sector that will play an important role in our ambition to grow the digital sector’s contribution to the UK economy to £200 billion by 2025.
In 2016 we appointed the UK’s first National Technology Advisor to work with the Digital Economy Unit, part of the Department for Culture, Media & Sport, to strengthen links with technology sector, including the data centre industry. This role includes working with companies such as IBM to make the UK their expansion country of choice. In November 2016, IBM announced that it will be opening four new cloud data centres in the UK.
The government is also working with data centre operators to ensure a secure future energy supply, which will support the continued growth of the UK data centre industry.
Asked by: Amanda Milling (Conservative - Cannock Chase)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what the data centre capacity is in the UK.
Answered by Matt Hancock
Figures from techUK and the UK Council of Data Centre Operators estimate that there are around 500 data centres in the UK[1]. Capacity for these data centres can be measured by ‘power provisioning’, which is the maximum amount of power that the data centre operator has contracted from the supplier and is therefore able to draw upon.
This power is contracted based on the maximum amount that the data centre site could need when it is fully occupied and working at full capacity, with provision built in for a small margin of additional power.
Power provision is instantaneous and it is estimated that the combined UK data centre estate is able to draw upon between 1,500 and 1,700 MW (Most Power Consumed) at any given time, based on analysis provided to the Department for Culture Media & Sport by techUK.