Asked by: John Healey (Labour - Wentworth and Dearne)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the impact of graphics processing unit scalping on UK (a) competition policy and (b) businesses.
Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)
Under UK competition law, responsibility for investigating anticompetitive practices falls to the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), the UK’s competition authority. The government has ensured that the CMA has significant powers and expertise to investigate anti-competitive practices, and as an independent authority, the CMA has discretion to investigate competition cases which, according to its prioritisation principles, it considers most appropriate. The CMA may also carry out detailed examinations of why particular markets may not be working well and take remedial action to address features of markets which restrict competition.
GPUs are used for a number of applications and supply has been impacted by an ongoing global shortage. The current shortage is due to a confluence of unexpected events, including unprecedented pandemic-driven shifts in demand within a global market. HMG recognises the severity of the current chip shortage, the widespread international ramifications and the difficulties it has created for a number of UK firms and individuals. HMG are engaging affected UK sectors and key international partners to identify any available domestic or international mitigations.
Asked by: John Healey (Labour - Wentworth and Dearne)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether any of the £135 million announced by her Department on 4 January 2018 as pledged to Big Society Capital to fund stable and long-term accommodation for vulnerable groups has previously been allocated or announced.
Answered by Tracey Crouch
The release of a new tranche of £330m from dormant accounts to be distributed across the UK, announced on 4 January, includes an allocation of £135m to Big Society Capital. £300m of dormant account funding has previously been transferred to Big Society Capital. The allocation from the new tranche of dormant accounts will meet the intention announced by the Prime Minister in 2012 to provide £400m to Big Society Capital, and provides an additional £35m.
Previous announcements on the government’s funding commitment to Big Society Capital were not specific to housing, and Big Society Capital’s intention to use this funding to provide stable and long-term accommodation homes for vulnerable people, as well as to support local charities and social enterprises, has not previously been announced.
Asked by: John Healey (Labour - Wentworth and Dearne)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what the total annual sum of payments made under the Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme has been in each year since that scheme's inception.
Answered by Lord Vaizey of Didcot
Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme - Total Annual Payments
Financial Year | Annual Totals |
| £000s |
2001-02 | 1,659 |
2002-03 | 8,453 |
2003-04 | 8,877 |
2004 -05 | 10,113 |
2005-06 | 15,066 |
2006-07 | 14,226 |
2007-08 | 14,957 |
2008-09 | 16,347 |
2009-10 | 14,930 |
2010-11 | 23,307 |
2011-12 | 7,034 |
2012-13 | 13,202 |
2013-14 | 18,581 |
Asked by: John Healey (Labour - Wentworth and Dearne)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many officials in his Department who received the (a) exceeded, (b) met and (c) must improve performance mark under the Civil Service Employment Policy Performance Management System (i) had a disability, (ii) worked full-time and (iii) worked part-time in 2013-14.
Answered by Helen Grant
The table sets out the number of employees, within each performance category, who have declared a disability. 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
i) Disability
DCMS | EYR Rating | ||
Disability | Exceptional | Good | Must Improve |
Not disclosed | 31 | 64 | 5 |
No | 52 | 76 | |
Prefer not to say | * | ||
Yes | * | 8 |
*The disclosure of numbers where they amount to fewer than five could enable identification of individuals to whom this information relates. This would amount to a release of their personal data in breach of the Data Protection Act
ii)&iii) Full –time/part –time
The following table sets out the number of employees, within each performance category, who work full time or part time.
DCMS | EYR Rating | ||
Part time full time | Exceptional | Good | Must Improve |
Full Time | 79 | 138 | * |
Part Time | 8 | 10 | * |
*The disclosure of numbers where they amount to fewer than five could enable identification of individuals to whom this information relates. This would amount to a release of their personal data in breach of the Data Protection Act
Asked by: John Healey (Labour - Wentworth and Dearne)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many officials in his Department completed the Civil Service Employment Policy Performance Management System in 2013-14; how many and what proportion of those officials received the (a) exceeded, (b) met and (c) must improve performance mark; and how many and what proportion (i) did and (ii) did not qualify for a bonus under that process.
Answered by Helen Grant
The table sets out the number of employees who completed the Civil Service Employment Policy Performance Management System in 2013-14; and the proportion of those officials who received the (a) exceeded, (b) met and (c) must improve performance mark. and how many and what proportion who (i) did and (ii) did not qualify for a bonus.
DCMS | EYR Rating | |||
Exceptional | Good | Must Improve | Grand Total | |
Total | 87 | 148 | 5 | 240 |
Percentage | 36% | 62% | 2% | 100% |
Bonus | Eligible | Not eligible | Grand Total |
36% | 64% | 100% |
Asked by: John Healey (Labour - Wentworth and Dearne)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many officials in his Department of each (a) gender, (b) ethnicity and (c) age received the Civil Service Employment Policy Performance Management System's (i) exceeded, (ii) met and (iii) must improve performance mark in 2013-14.
Answered by Helen Grant
The table sets out the number of employees within each performance category for the 2013-14 reporting year for assessments received to date by gender, ethnicity and age.
a) Gender
DCMS | EYR Rating | ||
Gender | Exceptional | Good | Must Improve |
Female | 45 | 62 | * |
Male | 42 | 86 | * |
Grand Total | 87 | 148 |
*The disclosure of numbers where they amount to fewer than five could enable identification of individuals to whom this information relates. This would amount to a release of their personal data in breach of the Data Protection Act
b) Ethnicity
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
DCMS | EYR Rating | ||
Ethnicity | Exceptional | Good | Must Improve |
Not disclosed | 35 | 64 | 5 |
Any Other Ethnic Background | * | ||
Asian - Indian | * | ||
Asian - Pakistani | * | * | |
Black - African | * | ||
Black - Caribbean | * | ||
Black - Other | * | ||
Mixed - Black Caribbean & White | * | ||
Mixed - Other | * | * | |
Prefer not to say | * | * | |
White | 48 | 69 |
*The disclosure of numbers where they amount to fewer than five could enable identification of individuals to whom this information relates. This would amount to a release of their personal data in breach of the Data Protection Act
c) Age
DCMS | EYR Rating | ||
Age | Exceptional | Good | Must Improve |
16-24 | * | 5 | |
25-29 | 16 | 12 | |
30-34 | 14 | 21 | |
35-39 | 11 | 30 | * |
40-44 | 10 | 16 | * |
45-49 | 17 | 20 | * |
50-54 | 10 | 23 | |
55-59 | * | 13 | * |
60-64 | * | 7 | |
65+ | * | ||
*The disclosure of numbers where they amount to fewer than five could enable identification of individuals to whom this information relates. This would amount to a release of their personal data in breach of the Data Protection Act