Asked by: Anna McMorrin (Labour - Cardiff North)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how much Official Development Assistance his Department (a) was allocated in (i) 2019-20 and (ii) 2020-21 and (b) will be allocated in 2021-22.
Answered by John Whittingdale
HM Treasury has published departmental allocations of Official Development Assistance (ODA) for 2019-20, here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-aid-tackling-global-challenges-in-the-national-interest/official-development-assistance-oda-allocation-by-department.
In this table, DCMS is included in the “Other Departments” group. In 2019-20, DCMS’s ODA allocation was £11m.
Outturn information of 2019 calendar year ODA spend is available in the Statistics of International Development publication: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-on-international-development.
The Government has committed to publishing departmental allocations of ODA for 2020/21 in due course.
Outturn information of 2020 calendar year ODA spend will be published later this year, as normal, in the Statistics of International Development publication: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-on-international-development.
The Foreign Secretary recently published departmental ODA allocations for 2021-22, including DCMS’s allocation, in a Written Ministerial Statement available online here: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-statements/detail/2021-01-26/hcws735.
DCMS also manages ODA funding provided by the Prosperity Fund. This is reported separately by the Prosperity Fund.
Asked by: Anna McMorrin (Labour - Cardiff North)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, when she plans to publish her Department’s response to the consultation on Digital Identity that closed on 19 September 2019.
Answered by Nigel Adams
The Department’s response to the Digital Identity call for evidence will be published in Spring 2020.
Asked by: Anna McMorrin (Labour - Cardiff North)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what plans her Department has to promote teaching young people how to critically analyse what they view on the internet and in the media to help them identify fake news.
Answered by Matt Hancock
As part of our Internet Safety Strategy and through our work with the Department for Education, we are ensuring that children have the knowledge they need to critically assess information. This will help children and young people identify intentionally misleading information on the Internet and in the media.
Asked by: Anna McMorrin (Labour - Cardiff North)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what plans her Department has to promote teaching young people how to critically analyse what they view on the internet and in the media to help them identify fake news.
Answered by Matt Hancock
As part of our Internet Safety Strategy and through our work with the Department for Education, we are ensuring that children have the knowledge they need to critically assess information. This will help children and young people identify intentionally misleading information on the Internet and in the media.