Asked by: Angela Eagle (Labour - Wallasey)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how many libraries have closed in (a) Merseyside and (b) Wirral in each of the last 10 years.
Answered by Michael Ellis
The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport monitors proposed changes to library service provision throughout England, but does not hold complete figures on the number of public libraries closed in each local authority in each of the last 10 years.
Asked by: Angela Eagle (Labour - Wallasey)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what support his Department provides for deaf athletes.
Answered by Tracey Crouch
Sport England is investing over £360,000 in UK Deaf sport between 2017 and 2020 - this is to help them work with sport and physical activity organisations to increase awareness of deaf people’s needs, share good practice, conduct research and develop the workforce.
UK Deaf Sport are also working closely with deaf people to inspire them to take part in sport and activity, as well as training a number to be qualified sports leaders to their peers and non-deaf people.
Asked by: Angela Eagle (Labour - Wallasey)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate he has made of the amount spent by his Department on promoting regional tourism in each year since 2010.
Answered by Michael Ellis
VisitBritain and VisitEngland do not hold a breakdown of spending at local level and DCMS do not hold information of spending at local authority level - this is held by the Ministry for Housing, Central and Local Government.
Asked by: Angela Eagle (Labour - Wallasey)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how much central government funding was provided to the Information Commissioners Office in each of the last three years; what what central government funding is planned to be provided to that Office in each of the next three years.
Answered by Margot James
The ICO is predominantly funded through charges levied on data controllers (the notification fee, to be replaced with the data protection charge when the Data Protection (Charges and Information) Regulations 2018 come into force on 25th May 2018). The Government provides Grant in Aid funding to the ICO in respect of 4 distinct regulatory obligations: Freedom of Information; eIDAS, the Investigatory Powers Act and Networks and Information Systems (NIS) (for 2018/19 onwards). The funding for the previous 3 years and the projected funding for the next 2 years are summarised below:
2015/16 (actual | 2016/17 (actual) | 2017/18 (actual)* | 2018/19 (forecast)* | 2019/20 (forecast)* | 2020/21 (forecast)* |
See ICO’s annual accounts: https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/our-information/annual-reports/ | See ICO’s annual accounts: https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/our-information/annual-reports/ | £3,795k** The ICO are due to lay their accounts before Parliament on 3rd July 2018 | £4,250k** | £4,250k | As this is outside of the current Spending Review period, it is not possible to supply forecasted funding figures. |
* These figures do not include the Investigatory Powers Act funding which is provided directly by the Home Office.
**An advance of £1.4m Programme GiA funding was provided in 2017/18, and is offset by a reduction of £1.4m in 2018/19. This has not been reflected in the figures above.