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Written Question
Government Departments: Copyright
Friday 10th March 2017

Asked by: Jim Dowd (Labour - Lewisham West and Penge)

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what process his Department has for allocating funds for the payment for copyright licenses by the Government; and what funds were allocated for such payments in each of the last five years.

Answered by Simon Kirby

Government departments buy copyright licences according to their needs from their departmental budgets. Funds are not allocated by HM Treasury specifically for licensing and departmental procurement. This type of procurement is a matter for individual departments.

Written Question
Government Departments: Copyright
Wednesday 8th March 2017

Asked by: Jim Dowd (Labour - Lewisham West and Penge)

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what role his Department has in ensuring compliance with copyright licensing conditions across Government.

Answered by Simon Kirby

Government departments are required to comply with the law including the law of copyright. To this end they enter into licensing arrangements and monitor compliance locally. The Accounting Officer within each department is responsible for ensuring legal compliance.

Written Question
Government Departments: Copyright
Wednesday 8th March 2017

Asked by: Jim Dowd (Labour - Lewisham West and Penge)

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what funding his Department provides for the renewal of Government copyright licences.

Answered by Simon Kirby

Government departments buy copyright licences according to their needs from their departmental budgets. This includes any contributions made to shared licensing arrangements across government.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 20 Oct 2015
Tax Credits

"I say to the hon. Members for Plymouth, Moor View (Johnny Mercer) and for South Cambridgeshire (Heidi Allen) that it is never easy to make a speech with which most of those on the same Benches disagree. I have been in that position myself, so I commend them on their …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 26 Mar 2012
Amendment of the Law

"On that subject, will the Minister have a word with the London borough of Bromley—it is allegedly in London, although it is not—which is obstructing the implementation of superfast broadband simply because it is an out-of-London, Tory-controlled borough that does not know any better? Will he exhort it to wake …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 26 Mar 2012
Amendment of the Law

"I am not sure whether my hon. Friend the Member for Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland (Tom Blenkinsop)—to whom the Minister refers—wants to intervene, but if so, I am taking his slot. I do not want to make a partisan point, because although our understanding of the importance of the …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 26 Mar 2012
Amendment of the Law

"My hon. Friend mentions tax simplification. What does he make of the tax simplification for pensioners?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 26 Mar 2012
Amendment of the Law

"I congratulate the hon. Member for Wirral West (Esther McVey) on reading out her speech. I am not sure whether she got it from the Whips or those on the Government Front Bench, but it is patently obvious that it was completely—..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 26 Mar 2012
Amendment of the Law

"No, I will not...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 26 Mar 2012
Amendment of the Law

"No, I will not—[Interruption.] No...."
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