Asked by: David Jones (Conservative - Clwyd West)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of work to increase broadband line speeds (a) from below 2 mbps to 10 mbps and (b) above 10 mbps to date.
Answered by Lord Vaizey of Didcot
Government, Local Authority and European Union funding combined has invested over £1.7billion to extend superfast coverage (download speeds of 24Mbps and above) to 95% premises in the UK by the end of 2017. This investment will also see universal coverage of basic broadband (2Mbps). There is no spend specifically to provide download speeds of 10Mbps.
BDUK has spent a total of £254.33m to the end of December 2014 on rolling out Superfast Broadband. This includes £127.76m in annual budget transfers to the Devolved Administrations, which may not all have been spent on delivery to date.
Asked by: David Jones (Conservative - Clwyd West)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment he has made of the contribution of creative industries to the economy.
Answered by Lord Vaizey of Didcot
The Creative Industries Economic Estimates were published on 13 January 2015. They show that the sector has grown with the GVA in 2013 as £76.9bn, an 9.9% increase. The sector accounted for 1.71 million jobs in 2013 and the value of services exported was £17.3 billion in 2012Asked by: David Jones (Conservative - Clwyd West)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether he plans to meet the (a) chairman and (b) chief executive of Sianel 4 Cymru before 31 March 2015.
Answered by Lord Vaizey of Didcot
There are no current plans for the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport to meet with the chairman and chief executive of Sianel 4 Cymru before 31 March 2015. However, he previously met the Chairman and the Chief Executive, as well as other S4C representatives, during a visit to S4C’s Headquarters in Llanishen, Cardiff on 17th July this year. The previous Secretary of State, Maria Miller, also met with both Huw Jones and Ian Jones on 13th November 2013. In these meetings future funding was discussed.
All such meetings are detailed in the Department’s regularly published transparency returns: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications?keywords=dcms+ministerial+meetings&publication_filter_option=transparency-data&topics%5B%5D=all&departments%5B%5D=department-for-culture-media-sport&official_document_status=all&world_locations%5B%5D=all&from_date=&to_date=&commit=Refresh+results
Officials from DCMS are in regular contact with S4C equivalents on a range of issues. S4C, as with all publicly funded bodies, has its Exchequer funding set out to the end of the current SR period. This means that in 2015/16 S4C will continue to receive £6.787m of funding from DCMS. In addition to this, the current operating agreement between the BBC and S4C sets out further licence fee funding for 2016-17 (£74.5m).
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Asked by: David Jones (Conservative - Clwyd West)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what recent discussions he has had with Sianel 4 Cymru on future funding for that organisation.
Answered by Lord Vaizey of Didcot
There are no current plans for the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport to meet with the chairman and chief executive of Sianel 4 Cymru before 31 March 2015. However, he previously met the Chairman and the Chief Executive, as well as other S4C representatives, during a visit to S4C’s Headquarters in Llanishen, Cardiff on 17th July this year. The previous Secretary of State, Maria Miller, also met with both Huw Jones and Ian Jones on 13th November 2013. In these meetings future funding was discussed.
All such meetings are detailed in the Department’s regularly published transparency returns: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications?keywords=dcms+ministerial+meetings&publication_filter_option=transparency-data&topics%5B%5D=all&departments%5B%5D=department-for-culture-media-sport&official_document_status=all&world_locations%5B%5D=all&from_date=&to_date=&commit=Refresh+results
Officials from DCMS are in regular contact with S4C equivalents on a range of issues. S4C, as with all publicly funded bodies, has its Exchequer funding set out to the end of the current SR period. This means that in 2015/16 S4C will continue to receive £6.787m of funding from DCMS. In addition to this, the current operating agreement between the BBC and S4C sets out further licence fee funding for 2016-17 (£74.5m).
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Asked by: David Jones (Conservative - Clwyd West)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when he or his predecessor last met the (a) Chairman and (b) Chief Executive of Sianel 4 Cymru.
Answered by Lord Vaizey of Didcot
There are no current plans for the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport to meet with the chairman and chief executive of Sianel 4 Cymru before 31 March 2015. However, he previously met the Chairman and the Chief Executive, as well as other S4C representatives, during a visit to S4C’s Headquarters in Llanishen, Cardiff on 17th July this year. The previous Secretary of State, Maria Miller, also met with both Huw Jones and Ian Jones on 13th November 2013. In these meetings future funding was discussed.
All such meetings are detailed in the Department’s regularly published transparency returns: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications?keywords=dcms+ministerial+meetings&publication_filter_option=transparency-data&topics%5B%5D=all&departments%5B%5D=department-for-culture-media-sport&official_document_status=all&world_locations%5B%5D=all&from_date=&to_date=&commit=Refresh+results
Officials from DCMS are in regular contact with S4C equivalents on a range of issues. S4C, as with all publicly funded bodies, has its Exchequer funding set out to the end of the current SR period. This means that in 2015/16 S4C will continue to receive £6.787m of funding from DCMS. In addition to this, the current operating agreement between the BBC and S4C sets out further licence fee funding for 2016-17 (£74.5m).
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