Asked by: Lisa Nandy (Labour - Wigan)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 7 November 2014 to Question 212813, for what purpose the Big Society Network used the office space provided by his Department.
Answered by Helen Grant - Shadow Solicitor General
DCMS provided some vacant office space at 179A Tottenham Court Road to the Big Society Network from 28/7/2010 to 26/11/2010, while the Department was seeking a commercial sub-tenant. As the space was unused but waiting to be let no additional costs were incurred to the public purse. The Department also loaned the BSN 5 PCs and a printer and made available access to the wifi connection. Again no additional costs were incurrred to the public purse and BSN did not have access to DCMS systems. The office space was used by BSN for office use.
Asked by: Lisa Nandy (Labour - Wigan)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what office space his Department provided to the Society Network Foundation between 2010 and 2014.
Answered by Helen Grant - Shadow Solicitor General
DCMS provided office space at 179A Tottenham Court Road to the Big Society Network from 28/7/2010 to 26/11/2010.
Asked by: Lisa Nandy (Labour - Wigan)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what office space his Department provided to the Big Society Network between 2010 and 2014.
Answered by Helen Grant - Shadow Solicitor General
DCMS provided office space at 179A Tottenham Court Road to the Big Society Network from 28/7/2010 to 26/11/2010.
Asked by: Lisa Nandy (Labour - Wigan)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many civil servants or special advisers his Department seconded to the (a) Society Network Foundation and (b) Big Society Network between 2010 and 2014.
Answered by Helen Grant - Shadow Solicitor General
No civil servants or special advisers in DCMS have been seconded to the Society Network Foundation or Big Society Network between 2010 and 2014.
Asked by: Lisa Nandy (Labour - Wigan)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much his Department awarded in (a) grants and (b) contracts to the Society Network Foundation between 2010 and 2014.
Answered by Helen Grant - Shadow Solicitor General
The Department for Culture, Media & Sport did not provide any financial or non-financial support to the Society Network Foundation between 2010 and 2014, nor has it been awarded any contracts.
Asked by: Lisa Nandy (Labour - Wigan)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will estimate the total value of (a) financial and (b) non-financial support provided by his Department to the Society Network Foundation between 2010 and 2014.
Answered by Helen Grant - Shadow Solicitor General
The Department for Culture, Media & Sport did not provide any financial or non-financial support to the Society Network Foundation between 2010 and 2014, nor has it been awarded any contracts.