Asked by: Andrew Bowie (Conservative - West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what recent discussions he has had with (a) his Scottish Government counterpart and (b) social media companies on tackling online (i) abuse and (ii) extremist content in Scotland.
Answered by Matt Warman
DCMS regularly engages with social media companies and the Scottish Government on a range of issues relating to online harms, including as part of the recent consultation on the Online Harms White Paper. The consultation closed on 1 July and the Government intends to publish its response before the end of the year.
Asked by: Andrew Bowie (Conservative - West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, when he next plans to meet with his Scottish Government counterpart to discuss increasing the availability of superfast broadband in the north east of Scotland.
Answered by Matt Warman
The Secretary of State met her Scottish counterpart, Paul Wheelhouse MSP, in August 2019 shortly after her appointment.
Officials from Building Digital UK meet regularly with Scottish officials on behalf of the Department to discuss broadband rollout in Scotland, including rollout in the north east of Scotland. The most recent Director level meeting was held in Glasgow on 20 August 2019.
Asked by: Andrew Bowie (Conservative - West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether he plans to pilot the National Citizens Service in Scotland.
Answered by Tracey Crouch
Youth policy is a devolved matter and the decision to pilot NCS is a decision for the Scottish Government. It is this Government’s ambition that every young person is able to benefit from NCS regardless of where they live in the United Kingdom.
Asked by: Andrew Bowie (Conservative - West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions she has had with the Scottish Government about the full fibre broadband pilot scheme in Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire.
Answered by Matt Hancock
We have kept the Scottish Government informed about all aspects of the Local Full Fibre Networks programme, including the test project in Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire, including at Ministerial level.
For delivery of the project, which launched on 15 November 2017, we are working with the local authorities directly.
Asked by: Andrew Bowie (Conservative - West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine)
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 to roll out the full fibre broadband pilot scheme in Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire.
Answered by Matt Hancock
We have kept the Scottish Government informed about all aspects of the Local Full Fibre Networks programme, including the test project in Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire, including at Ministerial level.
For delivery of the project, which launched on 15 November 2017, we are working with the local authorities directly.
Asked by: Andrew Bowie (Conservative - West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate her Department has made of the value of tourism generated in Aberdeenshire by the Royal Family.
Answered by John Glen
According to the VisitScotland Visitor Survey 2015-16, 16% of tourists surveyed, domestic and international, visited the Aberdeenshire area and 13% stayed overnight in the area. In addition, tourism directly employed over 8,000 people in the Aberdeenshire area in 2015 and contributed £166m in GVA to the local economy in 2014. Data is not collected about the Royal Family’s individual impact on a destinations’ statistics.