Asked by: Lyn Brown (Labour - West Ham)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what proactive investigative capacity exists to support enforcement of laws against nuisance calling and associated business practices.
Answered by Nigel Adams
It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.
Asked by: Lyn Brown (Labour - West Ham)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if her Department will take steps to (a) identify countries that are hotspots of illegal nuisance calling to the UK and associated business activity and (b) improve collaboration with regulators and other investigative and enforcement authorities in those countries.
Answered by Nigel Adams
It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.
Asked by: Lyn Brown (Labour - West Ham)
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 New York Times report, entitled How YouTube Radicalised Brazil, published 11 August 2019, if she will make an assessment of whether YouTube’s recommendation algorithm has played a role in increasing (a) radicalisation and (b) misinformation.
Answered by Matt Warman
It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.
Asked by: Lyn Brown (Labour - West Ham)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make an assessment of the effect of YouTube’s recommendation algorithm on trends in the level of (a) radicalisation and (b) misinformation in the UK in the last three years.
Answered by Matt Warman
It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.
Asked by: Lyn Brown (Labour - West Ham)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps his Department is taking to prevent proliferation of videos and documents published by the perpetrator or perpetrators of the terror attack on two Christchurch mosques on 15 March 2019 on (a) print and broadcast media, (b) social media and (c) other internet sites and platforms accessible from the UK.
Answered by Margot James
The Government has been clear that tech companies need to act more quickly to remove terrorist content online and ultimately prevent new content being made available to users in the first place. There can be no safe spaces for terrorists to promote and share their extreme views. We are working closely with industry, including through the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism, to encourage them to increase the use of technology to automate the detection and removal of content where possible.
The forthcoming Online Harms White Paper will set out a range of legislative and non-legislative measures detailing how we will tackle online harms and setting clear responsibilities for tech companies to keep people safe online.
Decisions on broadcasting regulation are a matter for Ofcom, whose Broadcasting Code sets strong standards for material broadcast on television and radio around harmful and offensive material, incitement of crime, disorder, and hatred or abuse. The press is subject to independent self-regulation, primarily through IPSO and Impress. These regulators issue their own codes of conduct which provide guidelines on a range of areas including discrimination, accuracy and the reporting of crime.
Asked by: Lyn Brown (Labour - West Ham)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what information his Department holds on the equalities and non-discrimination policies of the Lawn Tennis Association.
Answered by Tracey Crouch
The department does not hold information on the equalities and non-discrimination policies of the Lawn Tennis Association. These are publicly available on the LTA’s website.
Asked by: Lyn Brown (Labour - West Ham)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what information his Department holds on the participation of people with (a) different socioeconomic backgrounds and (b) the protected characteristics listed in section 4 of the Equality Act 2010 in the sport of lawn tennis.
Answered by Tracey Crouch
Sport England’s “Active Lives” survey provides data on participation levels in sport and physical activity.
According to the latest figures available (published October 2017) approximately 865,000 or 1.9% of adults aged 16+ participated in tennis twice in the last 28 days. The tables below provide a breakdown by protected characteristic and socio-economic status.
Data broken down by socio-economic group (where available)
Demographic | Share | Number (rounded to nearest 5,000) | |
Gender | Male | 58.8% | 510,000 |
Female | 41.2% | 355,000 | |
Disability | Long term limiting disability | 5.0% | 45,000 |
No long term limiting disability | 95.0% | 820,000 | |
Age | 16-34 | 39.3% | 340,000 |
35-54 | 31.9% | 275,000 | |
55-74 | 23.9% | 210,000 | |
75+ | 4.8% | 40,000 | |
Ethnicity | White-British | 81.0% | 700,000 |
White-Other | 7.2% | 60,000 | |
Asian | 7.3% | 60,000 | |
Black | 1.2% | 10,000 | |
Chinese | * | - | |
Mixed | 1.8% | 15,000 | |
Other ethnic group | * | - | |
Data broken down by socio-economic group
This data relates to adults aged 16-74 only rather than all adults aged 16+.
NS SEC 1-2 | 325,000 |
NS SEC 3-5 | 180,000 |
NS SEC 6-8 | 95,000 |
NS SEC 9 | 115,000 |
Notes
All Active Lives data is from the Active Lives release in October 2017 with the data from May 2016 - May 2017.
*It is not possible to provide data for participation rates amongst those who have a Chinese or other ethnic background, or for religion and sexuality as there is insufficient data to provide a result.
Socio economic status key:
Asked by: Lyn Brown (Labour - West Ham)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what recent discussions he has had with representatives of the Lawn Tennis Association on the accessibility of lawn tennis to people with (a) different socioeconomic backgrounds and (b) the protected characteristics listed in section 4 of the Equality Act 2010.
Answered by Tracey Crouch
Everyone, regardless of their age, background and level of ability, should feel able to get involved in sport and physical activity. The government and Sport England strategies, Sporting Future’ and ‘Towards an Active Nation’, place a clear emphasis on targeting those who are hardest to reach and less likely to be active, including those from lower socio-economic groups and those with protected characteristics.
I have regular discussions with national governing bodies of sport, including the Lawn Tennis Association (LTA), on a range of issues including diversity.
Asked by: Lyn Brown (Labour - West Ham)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what information his Department holds on the proportion of the price of an entry to the (a) Lotto, (b) Lotto Hotpicks, (c) Thunderball, (d) Euromillions, (e) Online Instant Wins, (f) UK Millionaire Maker and (g) Millionaire Raffle National Lottery games which goes to charity.
Answered by Tracey Crouch
Rates of return to good causes from the National Lottery vary by game and sales channel, with an additional 5% returned from online purchases as retailer commission is not paid. The percentage returns to good causes in 2016/17 from draw-based games were:
Game | Percentage to good causes |
Lotto | 31% |
Lotto Hotpicks | 29% |
Thunderball | 26% |
EuroMillions | 29% |
(Source: Gambling Commission)
The UK Millionaire Maker and the Millionaire Raffle are elements of the EuroMillions and Lotto games respectively, and their contributions to good causes are included in the above figures.
Scratchcards return between 4% - 17% and interactive instant-win games return between 10% - 22% depending on the structure of the game. The Department does not hold information on returns for individual games.
Asked by: Lyn Brown (Labour - West Ham)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what information his Department holds on the proportion of the price of (a) Monopoly Millionaire 2018, (b) Pay Out, (c) Santa’s Millions 2017, (d) Stocking Filler, (e) Triple Lucky 7s, (f) £1 Million Monopoly, (g) £1 Million Purple, (h) £100 Cash Spectacular Yellow, (i) £100,000 Monopoly, (j) £100,000 Red, (k) £4 Million Blue, (l) £250 Million Cash Spectacular, (m) 20X Cash Red, (n) Bingo Blue, (o) Cashword Pink and (p) £250,000 Exclusive National Lottery scratch-cards which goes to charity.
Answered by Tracey Crouch
Rates of return to good causes from the National Lottery vary by game and sales channel, with an additional 5% returned from online purchases as retailer commission is not paid. The percentage returns to good causes in 2016/17 from draw-based games were:
Game | Percentage to good causes |
Lotto | 31% |
Lotto Hotpicks | 29% |
Thunderball | 26% |
EuroMillions | 29% |
(Source: Gambling Commission)
The UK Millionaire Maker and the Millionaire Raffle are elements of the EuroMillions and Lotto games respectively, and their contributions to good causes are included in the above figures.
Scratchcards return between 4% - 17% and interactive instant-win games return between 10% - 22% depending on the structure of the game. The Department does not hold information on returns for individual games.