Written Question
Thursday 18th June 2020
Asked by:
Ed Davey (Liberal Democrat - Kingston and Surbiton)
Question
to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what guidance his Department has issued to (a) universities and (b) colleges on the display of statues of former slave trade owners; and if he will make a statement.
Answered by Nigel Huddleston
- Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
No such guidance has been issued.
Historic England, as the Government’s adviser on the historic environment have set out their position on contested heritage. This highlights how removing difficult and contentious parts of the historic environment can risk harming our understanding of our collective past. Historic England recommends the use of clear, long-lasting and innovative reinterpretation to reflect historical objects’ changed context and contemporary understanding of them.
They and other heritage funding bodies invest significantly in improving public access to historical objects, providing contemporary interpretation of them and supporting diverse heritage projects around the country.
Written Question
Wednesday 17th June 2020
Asked by:
Ed Davey (Liberal Democrat - Kingston and Surbiton)
Question
to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how many staff in his Department had caring responsibilities in each of the last five years.
Answered by Caroline Dinenage
Each year DCMS participates in the Civil Service-wide People Survey, which includes the question ‘‘Do you look after or give help or support to any family members, friends, neighbours or others who have a long-term physical or mental illness or disability, or problems related to old age?”
The number of people responding positively to this question in each of the last 5 years is in the table below alongside the total respondents and the response rate.
The total respondents is the number of people in DCMS who completed the People Survey each year. The response rate is the total number of respondents in DCMS as a percentage of the DCMS workforce.
This information is not a workforce statistic, so only representative of those who completed the survey each year but is the best information available.
Year | Positive responses | Total respondents | Response rate |
2015 | 80 | 509 | 96% |
2016 | 84 | 652 | 98% |
2017 | 109 | 788 | 98% |
2018 | Not available | 1,037 | 91% |
2019 | 170 | 1,161 | 97% |
The number of positive responses in 2018 is not available as the granular data was not analysed by the Central Analysis Team who produced the information for the other years.
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