Asked by: Chuka Umunna (Liberal Democrat - Streatham)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many citizens of non-UK EU countries work in her Department, its agencies and non-departmental public bodies.
Answered by Matt Hancock
All Government Departments are bound by legal requirements concerning the right to work in the UK and, in addition, the Civil Service Nationality Rules.
Asked by: Chuka Umunna (Liberal Democrat - Streatham)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what policy evaluations have been carried out by external organisations for his Department and its agencies in each financial year since 2010-11; whether the output of those evaluations was published; which organisation carried out each such evaluation; and what the value of each contract to provide that evaluation was.
Answered by Lord Vaizey of Didcot
Since 2010-11 the Department has commissioned the following policy evaluations from external organisations.
Title | Published | Organisation | Value |
Meta-evaluation of the impacts and legacy of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games | Yes | Grant Thornton | £1,400,000 |
The UK's National Broadband Scheme - an independent evaluation report | Yes | Oxera | £117,000 |
The Department does not hold information on evaluations commissioned by its arm’s length bodies centrally.
Asked by: Chuka Umunna (Liberal Democrat - Streatham)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what outputs have been delivered under the TechNorth programme since its announcement on 23 October 2014; how many officials are working on delivery of that scheme; what key performance indicators have been set for that programme; and how much public funding has been allocated under that programme to date.
Answered by Lord Vaizey of Didcot
Tech North, part of the Tech City UK network, was created to catalyse the development of a thriving ecosystem for digital businesses in the North of England, advocate for the region's digital entrepreneurs in the North of England, and optimise the environment for digital businesses in the largest seven cities of the north east, west and Yorkshire.
The Tech North programme is delivered by Tech City UK. Tech City UK is in the process of setting up Tech North and has recruited eight members of the planned ten person delivery team since the announcement on 23rd October 2014. They are developing a delivery plan in close co-operation with the northern digital community. No officials are involved with the delivery of the scheme directly.
The key performance indicators will be agreed in due course. Tech City UK will look to measure the impact of the programme on the digital economy across a range of economic indicators including measurements against investment, employment and the number of start-ups and scale-ups.
Asked by: Chuka Umunna (Liberal Democrat - Streatham)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the Answer of 10 March 2015 to Question 226447, if he will provide an update on delivery under the Future Fifty programme in line with each of the performance indicators established by the Government and Tech City UK to date.
Answered by Lord Vaizey of Didcot
Tech City UK’s performance against the agreed Key Performance Indicators for the Future Fifty programme to date is as follows:
Key performance indicator | 2014-15 | Q1 2015-16 |
Number of firms provided with intensive one-to-one support from the Future Fifty team | 62 | 54 |
Number of Future Fifty events delivered | 12 | 5 |
Number of individuals from Future Fifty firms participating in events delivered as part of the programme | 291 | 159 |
Net promoter score of companies who respond positively versus negatively about the impact of the programme | 88% | n/a |
Volume of positive media coverage in target media, and key message delivery | 90% of media coverage positive; all coverage contributes towards TCUK’s organisational objectives | 87.5% of media coverage positive; all coverage contributes towards TCUK’s organisational objective |
Asked by: Chuka Umunna (Liberal Democrat - Streatham)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what amount his Department and its agencies spent on research and development in each year since 2010-11; and what proportion such spending was of total departmental spending.
Answered by Helen Grant - Shadow Solicitor General
Information on the total amount of expenditure by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport on both research and development and the total departmental spending on services is publically available on gov.uk as part of the Country and Regional Analysis statistical release. This information covers 2009-10 through to 2013-14 and can be found at the following web link:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/country-and-regional-analysis-2014
This data can be accessed by using either the ‘interactive tables’ or the ‘database’.
The CRA is compiled from departmental spending data submitted to HM Treasury on services, split by sub-functions. This data that each department provides, uses internationally-agreed definitions called the Classifications of the Functions of Government (UN COFOG). These functions include and separately identify expenditure on various Research and Development activities.
Asked by: Chuka Umunna (Liberal Democrat - Streatham)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the Answer of 16 December 2013, Official Report, column 430W, on broadband, in which enterprise zones superfast broadband is currently (a) available throughout and (b) partially available.
Answered by Lord Vaizey of Didcot
Superfast broadband is available throughout the following Enterprise Zones:
Harlow Essex
Anglia
Lancashire
Hereford
Kent
Daresbury
Alconbury
Solent
MIRA Leicestershire
Cornwall
Mersey/Liverpool Waters
North East
Superfast broadband is partially available in the following Enterprise Zones:
Humber
Oxford
Nottingham
Sheffield
Northampton
Tees Valley
In the following Enterprise Zones, which all have partial coverage of superfast broadband, SMEs on some or all sites are also eligible to apply to the BDUK Broadband Connection Voucher Scheme to improve their broadband connectivity:
London
Leeds
Manchester
Birmingham
Black Country
Asked by: Chuka Umunna (Liberal Democrat - Streatham)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what proportion of suppliers to his Department and its agencies and non-departmental public bodies paid subcontractors within 30 days in the last period for which figures are available.
Answered by Helen Grant - Shadow Solicitor General
The Department does not hold this information.
Asked by: Chuka Umunna (Liberal Democrat - Streatham)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what requirements his Department and its agencies and non-departmental public bodies place on suppliers in respect of their payment terms to subcontractors as part of their standard terms and conditions.
Answered by Helen Grant - Shadow Solicitor General
Our contracts include a requirement for the contractor to pay subcontractors within 30 days of receipt of a valid invoice.