Asked by: Rachel Reeves (Labour - Leeds West and Pudsey)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how many (a) women and (b) men his Department has appointed to each of his Department's non-Departmental Public Bodies in each of the last five years.
Answered by Margot James
The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport is responsible for the appointment of the Chairs and Trustees to the boards of 42 Arm’s Length Bodies. In the past 5 years, the department made 307 new appointments, of which 161 (52%) were male and 135 (44%) were female. Gender information for 11 (4%) new appointments was not declared by appointed candidates.
Year | Total number of new appointments. | Total number of male appointments. | Total number of female appointments. | Total number of undeclared appointments. |
2013 - 2014 | 50 (100%) | 28 (56%) | 21 (42%) | 1 (2%) |
2014 - 2015 | 46 (100%) | 22 (48%) | 22 (48%) | 2 (4%) |
2015 - 2016 | 72 (100%) | 41 (57%) | 25 (35%) | 6 (8%) |
2016 - 2017 | 58 (100%) | 29 (50%) | 29 (50%) | 0 (0%) |
2017- 2018 | 66 (100%) | 33 (50%) | 31 (47%) | 2 (3%) |
2018 - 4 June 2018 | 15 (100%) | 8 (53%) | 7 (47%) | 0 (0%) |
Asked by: Rachel Reeves (Labour - Leeds West and Pudsey)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what Government funding has been awarded to (a) Welcome to Yorkshire, (b) the campaign to bring the Turner Prize to Hull in 2017 and (c) the creation of a new cycle gateway to the Yorkshire Dales National Park since the publication of the Long-Term Economic Plan for Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire in February 2015.
Answered by David Evennett
Over the last two financial years, Welcome to Yorkshire has received a total of £1,619,100 of Government funding to promote tourism and the success of cycling in Yorkshire, building on the Grand Depart.
This Government is providing £1.5million funding for the Ferens gallery in Hull so it can host the 2017 Turner prize.
And in 2014, the Canal River Trust won £450,000 from the Cycling Ambition in National Park programme for a range of cycling schemes, including the transformation of a 4km stretch of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal centred on the market town of Skipton, which is also a key gateway to the Yorkshire Dales.
On 24 May Government announced funding for both the Sustainable Travel Transition Year Fund 2016/17, and the North East Lincolnshire and Lincolnshire, with projects earmarked across the region but not in the specific Yorkshire Dales area.