Asked by: Diana Johnson (Labour - Kingston upon Hull North and Cottingham)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how many former hon. Members hold (a) paid and (b) unpaid roles within his Department as of 17 July 2018.
Answered by Margot James
We do not hold a central record of all employees, either paid or unpaid, who have previously been Members of Parliament.
Asked by: Diana Johnson (Labour - Kingston upon Hull North and Cottingham)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to page 153 of the Industrial Strategy, published in November 2017, what the timetable is for the installation of trackside infrastructure along the Trans-Pennine Route between Manchester, Leeds and York and for what reasons the plans not extend to Hull.
Answered by Margot James
The timetable for the deployment of this infrastructure is in the early stages of development, and we will announce further details in due course.
The Trans Pennine Initiative will deliver infrastructure that enables the testing and delivery of rail passenger connectivity on an existing rail route and the viability of using the rail corridor to deploy high capacity, cost effective fibre. A longer route would cost more and, crucially, would take longer to build. These trials are a step on the way to improving rail passenger communications on all mainline routes by 2025.
Asked by: Diana Johnson (Labour - Kingston upon Hull North and Cottingham)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to page 156 of the Industrial Strategy, published in November 2017, which towns and cities which will benefit from the roll-out of full fibre in 2017-18.
Answered by Margot James
Page 156 of the industrial strategy refers to a market response case study on a partnership between Vodafone and CityFibre. As this is a market response rather than a Government initiative we do not hold the details of their commercial strategy regarding the roll-out of full fibre.
Asked by: Diana Johnson (Labour - Kingston upon Hull North and Cottingham)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to page 234 of the Industrial Strategy, published in November 2017, to which cities will the £2 million in place-based cultural development be allocated.
Answered by Michael Ellis
The Cultural Development Fund will use £2 million funding for 2018/19 to test the model for place-based cultural development and support towns and cities to develop culture and creative industries led growth strategies. No decisions have yet been made on which regions will benefit from funding.