Asked by: Emma Lewell (Labour - South Shields)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, when the criterion for the Tampon Tax Fund that the value of the grant requested in each financial year must not represent more than 50 per cent of the applicant organisation’s annual income was introduced.
Answered by Mims Davies - Shadow Minister (Women)
The criterion that the amount of grant funding a grant recipient receives per financial year should not exceed 50% of that financial year’s annual income was first included in the Guidance to Applicants to the 2017/18 Tampon Tax Fund, which was launched on 1st December 2016.
Asked by: Emma Lewell (Labour - South Shields)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, for what reasons the minimum bid to apply for funding from the Tampon Tax Fund was increased to £1 million.
Answered by Mims Davies - Shadow Minister (Women)
The minimum bid to the Tampon Tax Fund was set at £1 million in December 2017, with the launch of the 2018-2019 round of funding to achieve a more cohesive and strategic approach to addressing the issues facing vulnerable and excluded women across the UK.
To ensure that smaller organisations were not disadvantaged by this change we also encouraged applications from organisations whose projects included making onward grants. In March 2018, we awarded over £5 million to organisations making onward grants and as a result 498 grants have been made to small and medium sized charities.
Asked by: Emma Lewell (Labour - South Shields)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how many applications for funding were made to the Tampon Tax Fund in each year since 2015.
Answered by Mims Davies - Shadow Minister (Women)
The Chancellor of the Exchequer announced the Tampon Tax Fund in the Autumn Statement 2015, granting funding to four organisations: Eve Appeal, SafeLives and Women’s Aid, and The Haven, and inviting applications for further grant funding.
The number of applications made to the Tampon Tax Fund in each year are as follows:
Asked by: Emma Lewell (Labour - South Shields)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 24 April 2018 to Question 136014, on Youth Social Action Review, on what date the Minister of Sport and Civil Society plans to meet with the Chair of the Independent review of full-time social action.
Answered by Tracey Crouch
My meeting with the Chair of the Full-time Social Action Review to discuss the Review’s report is scheduled for May.
Asked by: Emma Lewell (Labour - South Shields)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 22 March 2018 to Question 132681, on Youth Social Action Review, whether the Minister of Sport and Civil Society has met with the Chair of the Independent review of full-time social action since that report's publication.
Answered by Tracey Crouch
I will be meeting with the Chair of the Review to discuss the Report’s recommendations shortly. The Government response to the review’s report will be published in due course.
Asked by: Emma Lewell (Labour - South Shields)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what plans the Minister of Sport and Civil Society has to meet with the Chair of the Independent review of full-time social action following that report's publication.
Answered by Tracey Crouch
Government is carefully considering the recommendations made by the Review of Full Time Social Action. I will be meeting with the Chair of the Review to discuss the report as part of this process. The Government response to the review’s report will be published in due course.
Asked by: Emma Lewell (Labour - South Shields)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the independent review of full-time social action, published in January 2018, what assessment he has made of the effect of extending the youth full-time social action programme to disadvantaged pupils on their attainment levels in (a) primary and (b) secondary schools.
Answered by Tracey Crouch
Government recognises the benefits that young people derive from participation in social action. The 2016 National Youth Social Action Survey showed that young people who had participated in social action in the past 12 months had stronger personal networks and higher life satisfaction than those who have never done any social action. Independent evaluations of the National Citizen Service also show that the programme prepares participants for life and work by furnishing them with softer skills such as leadership, teamwork and increased resilience.
The Government response to the Full Time Social Action Review’s report will be published in due course.
Asked by: Emma Lewell (Labour - South Shields)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what proportion of (a) disabled and (b) all other staff in his Department reported experiencing bullying or harassment at work in the most recent Civil Service People Survey.
Answered by Helen Grant - Shadow Solicitor General
According to the 2014 staff survey, 9% of staff in Department for Culture Media and Sport (which includes the Government Equalities Office) reported experiencing bullying or harassment at work. Due to the small numbers of staff involved, the data is not split between disabled or non-disabled staff for data protection purposes.
Asked by: Emma Lewell (Labour - South Shields)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what proportion of (a) disabled and (b) all other staff in his Department responded that they were treated fairly at work in the most recent Civil Service People Survey.
Answered by Helen Grant - Shadow Solicitor General
In the 2014 People Survey, 66% of respondents from the DCMS (including Government Equalities Office) declaring a long-standing physical or mental health condition, illness, impairment or disability responded that they were treated fairly at work.
80% of DCMS respondents declaring that they did not have a long-standing physical or mental health condition, illness, impairment or disability responded that they were treated fairly at work.
There is a range of support in place for employees with disabilities. There is information on the Intranet to help support individuals and advice for managers in how they can support individuals with disabilities. This information includes advice on mental wellbeing, links to useful external websites such as Time To Change and Mind, and access to the NHS stress test. The Department's Employer Assistance Programme offers further advice and links to resources that can support managers and employees.
There is also an active employee run mental health employee support group. This group is a forum where DCMS staff can discuss their experiences in mental health and offer mutual support in a confidential environment.
The Department recently ran an Inclusion week which included sessions on; support for managers and individuals with disabilities, including mental health issues, and support for carers and sessions to deal with the modern workplace such as improving work life balance and mindfulness.
Asked by: Emma Lewell (Labour - South Shields)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what proportion of (a) disabled and (b) all other staff employed by his Department received each level of performance rating in their end of year performance assessment for 2013-14.
Answered by Helen Grant - Shadow Solicitor General
The table sets out the percentage of employees, within each performance category, who have declared a disability, and the percentage of all other staff in each performance category for the 2013-14 reporting year for assessments received to date. The percentage of all other staff includes staff who have either explicitly declared that they do not have a disability, have chosen the ‘prefer not to say' option, or have not responded to the question at all.
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| Excellent | Good | Must Improve |
Percentage of employees who have declared a disability in each performance rating | 1% | 4% | 0% |
Percentage of all other staff employed in each performance rating | 35% | 58% | 2% |
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) takes seriously its obligations to collect diversity data as required by the Equality Act 2010. All staff have been asked to provide personal diversity data to be held anonymously, and we continue to encourage increased declaration by staff. As such these figures will not be fully representative of workforce diversity.