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Written Question
Inland Waterways: World Heritage Sites
Thursday 21st March 2024

Asked by: Michael Fabricant (Conservative - Lichfield)

Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether her Department provides guidance to navigation authorities on attaining World Heritage Status for canal systems.

Answered by Julia Lopez - Shadow Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology

The Department for Culture, Media and Sport is responsible for nominating sites across the United Kingdom, the Overseas Territories, and the Crown Dependencies to UNESCO for World Heritage Status. The Department last updated the Tentative List of prospective World Heritage nominations in 2022/23.

Following the conclusion of this exercise, guidance was published on GOV.UK, which sets out the process for sites seeking World Heritage Status and advises those interested to contact the heritage agency responsible for heritage in their part of the UK (or the relevant Government authority if overseas) in the first instance.

Written Question
Public Sector: Publicity
Thursday 9th February 2023

Asked by: Michael Fabricant (Conservative - Lichfield)

Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if she will take steps to make it easier for public notices to be published in non print publications; and if she will make a statement.

Answered by Julia Lopez - Shadow Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology

Policy responsibility for each specific type of public notice lies with a range of different government departments. The Government is mindful of the potential effect that any changes to the existing publicity requirements for public notices might have on transparency and local democracy, as well as the potential effect on the sustainability of the local news sector as a whole. We recognise the continued importance of print local newspapers to the communities they serve and that there will continue to be a need to reach out to people who cannot digitally access information.

At the same time, to help address the desire for more digitalisation and greater audience reach in the publication of public notices, the local newspaper sector has been working with Google to develop an online Public Notice Portal. The Portal is intended to take advantage of print publishers’ growing digital audiences, providing a centralised resource for all types of public notice. The Government is monitoring the Portal’s development, and the effect that it has on the transparency of public notices.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 01 Dec 2022
Oral Answers to Questions

"6. Whether he has held recent discussions with the chair of the Association of English Cathedrals on the maintenance costs of historic cathedrals. ..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 01 Dec 2022
Oral Answers to Questions

"I am grateful to my hon. Friend, particularly for his kind words about me, which were very decent of him. He will know that the chair of the Association of English Cathedrals was the Dean of Lichfield cathedral, Adrian Dorber. Sadly for the community in Lichfield, he is going to …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 07 Jul 2022
Oral Answers to Questions

"The hon. Member for York Central (Rachael Maskell) is absolutely right to identify the issue that she has in York and in other parts of the country, but will my hon. Friend also bear in mind that these lets generate income for the area too, and many restaurants and other …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 07 Jul 2022
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"T5. My right hon. Friend has already said that the penetration of high speed broadband has gone up in just three years from 6% to 69%, particularly in rural areas. However, is she aware that in parts of Westminster and Birmingham, for example, it is very, very slow? What can …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 14 Jun 2022
Channel 4 Privatisation

"Does the hon. Lady not recall that Channel 4 was dragged kicking and screaming into moving its headquarters outside London? Has she not visited Leeds and has she visited London? Does she seriously think that Leeds can be called the headquarters of Channel 4 when most of the senior management …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 14 Jun 2022
Channel 4 Privatisation

"Further to the last question, it is not just Channel 4; for example, it was Netflix that made “Game of Thrones” in Belfast, throwing in millions of pounds—far more than Channel 4, although I do not underestimate Channel 4’s importance.

My questions are these. First, will my right hon. Friend …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 14 Jun 2022
Channel 4 Privatisation

"On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. I may have inadvertently misled the House. I said that it was Netflix that produced “Game of Thrones”, but it was not. It was HBO and Sky Atlantic that invested a quarter of a billion pounds in Northern Ireland, considerably more than …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 26 May 2022
Oral Answers to Questions

"Like the hon. Member for Edinburgh West (Christine Jardine), I have worked in the broadcast industry. Subject to certain conditions, I support the sale of Channel 4. Will my right hon. Friend confirm that any sell-off will be subject to requirements to make minimum British content, news content and the …..."
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