Written Question
Wednesday 28th February 2024
Asked by:
Pat McFadden (Labour - Wolverhampton South East)
Question
to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much funding her Department and the predecessor Department (a) budgeted for and (b) spent on software updates to legacy computer systems in each of the last three financial years.
Answered by Julia Lopez
- Shadow Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport has no legacy infrastructure and or Computer systems, all services have been transformed as part of the initial transformation programme undertaken in 2021. We therefore do not hold data within the scope of this request.
Written Question
Tuesday 5th December 2023
Asked by:
Pat McFadden (Labour - Wolverhampton South East)
Question
to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, which non-departmental public bodies sponsored by her Department are using legacy IT system which are no longer receiving updates from their original software developers.
Answered by John Whittingdale
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport has no legacy infrastructure, all services have been transformed as part of the initial transformation programme undertaken in 2021. We therefore do not hold this data. DCMS does not hold information on systems used by non-departmental public bodies sponsored by the Department.
Written Question
Wednesday 13th July 2022
Asked by:
Pat McFadden (Labour - Wolverhampton South East)
Question
to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if they will take steps to pay all (a) employees, (b) contractors and (c) agency workers who work in their Department and relevant agencies and public bodies no less than the (i) UK Real Living Wage outside of Greater London and (ii) London Living Wage inside of Greater London, as determined by the Living Wage Foundation.
Answered by Matt Warman
This Government is committed to paying people a decent living wage, which is being addressed through the statutory National Living Wage. In April 2022, the National Living Wage increased to £9.50 per hour. By 2024, the government has committed that the National Living Wage will reach 66% of median UK earnings.
Public Bodies sponsored by DCMS, are their own employer and make their own decisions on pay, within the parameters of the Civil Service pay remit guidance.
Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 08 Mar 2021
Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation
"It is a pleasure to wrap up this debate for the Opposition. Whatever is happening elsewhere on our television screens, I want to begin by thanking all the hon. and right hon. Members for contributing to this debate, whether they did so physically or virtually. We have had a very …..."Pat McFadden - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 08 May 2019
TV Licences for Over-75s
"The right hon. Gentleman is implying that the BBC was happy with all this at the time, but in the press statement announcing the consultation, the BBC said:
“The BBC could copy the scheme… but we think it would fundamentally change the BBC because of the scale of service cuts …..."Pat McFadden - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 08 May 2019
TV Licences for Over-75s
"It is a pleasure to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Crewe and Nantwich (Laura Smith), and I want to begin where she left off. I agree with her that free TV licences were introduced as a welfare policy. That is very much how it was seen at the …..."Pat McFadden - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 08 May 2019
TV Licences for Over-75s
"I am not going to give way, if that is okay, because there is a lot of pressure on time and others want to speak.
The first impact of the policy will be on the BBC itself. The second impact will be on pensioners, and it will be a dual …..."Pat McFadden - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 08 May 2019
TV Licences for Over-75s
"On giving a welfare policy to the BBC, a lot of footballing metaphors have been used in the past 24 hours, after Liverpool’s glorious result against Barcelona last night, but does my hon. Friend agree that in policy terms this is the equivalent of a hospital pass?..."Pat McFadden - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 25 Apr 2019
UK Telecoms: Huawei
"This leak is not only embarrassing, but, I am afraid, symptomatic of a wider breakdown of discipline and collective responsibility in the Government. This decision should be taking into account both our national security needs and our technological requirements for the future. Those should be the only two things under …..."Pat McFadden - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 21 Dec 2017
Russian Interference in UK Politics
"I agree with the right hon. Gentleman, and I ask him to emphasise the point about the resources that are needed to investigate. There is a danger that we are sidetracked into the social media side of this, when, ultimately, the more important thing is the money. Does he believe …..."Pat McFadden - View Speech
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