Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Coronavirus Alert Sample


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Calendar
Wednesday 22nd May 2024 9:30 a.m.
Culture, Media and Sport Committee - Oral evidence
Subject: The work of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport
At 10:00am: Oral evidence
Rt Hon Lucy Frazer KC MP - Secretary of State at Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Susannah Storey - Permanent Secretary at Department for Culture, Media and Sport
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Tuesday 21st May 2024 9:30 a.m.
Culture, Media and Sport Committee - Oral evidence
Subject: British film and high-end television
At 10:00am: Oral evidence
Georgia Brown - Chair at Screen Sectors Skills Task Force
Dr Jon Wardle - Director at National Film and Television School
Sara Whybrew - Director of Skills and Workforce Development at British Film Institute
At 10:50am: Oral evidence
Laura Mansfield - Chief Executive at ScreenSkills
Myriam Raja - Writer and Director
Dominique Unsworth MBE - Chief Executive at Resource Productions
At 11:40am: Oral evidence
Philippa Childs - Deputy general secretary and Head at Bectu
Marcus Ryder - Chief Executive at The Film and TV Charity
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Parliamentary Debates
High Streets (Designation, Review and Improvement Plan) Bill
28 speeches (8,998 words)
2nd reading
Friday 17th May 2024 - Lords Chamber
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities
Mentions:
1: Lord Whitby (Con - Life peer) Plan, which aimed to shape and revitalise Birmingham city centre, putting the city’s sustainability, culture - Link to Speech
2: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) the NHS, the police and others, will soon be in the development phase and we have developed a whole culture - Link to Speech

Football Governance Bill (Third sitting)
57 speeches (11,453 words)
Committee stage: 3rd sitting
Thursday 16th May 2024 - Public Bill Committees

Mentions:
1: Stephanie Peacock (Lab - Barnsley East) There were specific mentions—I know officials at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport are still - Link to Speech
2: Rachel Hopkins (Lab - Luton South) Sanjay Bhandari: I think it is because the culture of football is such that people do not feel comfortable - Link to Speech
3: Rachel Hopkins (Lab - Luton South) Q You have talked about culture, and there is a role for transparency in that. - Link to Speech

Football Governance Bill (Fourth sitting)
104 speeches (17,350 words)
Committee stage: 4th sitting
Thursday 16th May 2024 - Public Bill Committees
Department for Business and Trade
Mentions:
1: Stephanie Peacock (Lab - Barnsley East) It has been over a decade since the 2011 Culture, Media and Sport Committee’s report that made recommendations - Link to Speech
2: Stephanie Peacock (Lab - Barnsley East) Member for Gosport (Dame Caroline Dinenage) on Second Reading; she confirmed that the Culture, Media - Link to Speech
3: Stuart Andrew (Con - Pudsey) To that end, we are building the regulator in shadow form within the Department for Culture, Media and - Link to Speech
4: Stuart Andrew (Con - Pudsey) It has been raised in Culture, Media and Sport questions with me on a number of occasions, and I have - Link to Speech

Inequalities in Dementia Services
34 speeches (9,968 words)
Thursday 16th May 2024 - Westminster Hall
Department for Business and Trade
Mentions:
1: Maria Caulfield (Con - Lewes) Sometimes we need to look at the culture around dementia across the system.I want to highlight some of - Link to Speech

Smarter Regulation Programme
1 speech (1,087 words)
Thursday 16th May 2024 - Written Statements
Department for Business and Trade
Mentions:
1: Kemi Badenoch (Con - Saffron Walden) There is, however, strong evidence which suggests that our regulatory culture hinders our ability to - Link to Speech

Mental Health and Long-term Conditions
13 speeches (7,969 words)
Thursday 16th May 2024 - Westminster Hall
Department for Business and Trade
Mentions:
1: Peter Dowd (Lab - Bootle) extremely concerned about the recent proposals from the DWP following the Prime Minister’s ‘sicknote culture - Link to Speech
2: Maria Caulfield (Con - Lewes) It is about changing that culture so that people with mental illness and long-term conditions get the - Link to Speech

People with Disabilities: Access to Services
39 speeches (20,618 words)
Thursday 16th May 2024 - Lords Chamber
Department for Work and Pensions
Mentions:
1: Baroness Hughes of Stretford (Lab - Life peer) with Sir Michael that the rise in ill health and disability is real and not the result of a “sick note culture - Link to Speech

Business of the House
97 speeches (10,912 words)
Thursday 16th May 2024 - Commons Chamber
Leader of the House
Mentions:
1: Michael Ellis (Con - Northampton North) antisemites whose loathing for Jewish people is so extreme that they are now trying to boycott Jewish culture - Link to Speech
2: Christine Jardine (LD - Edinburgh West) But we should not forget that misogyny can also be part of everyday culture in workplaces in this country - Link to Speech

Community Sports: Impact on Young People
35 speeches (19,957 words)
Thursday 16th May 2024 - Lords Chamber
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
Mentions:
1: Lord Wood of Anfield (Lab - Life peer) only in their live form, as now, but on digital catch-up.Lastly, there is a host of issues around the culture - Link to Speech
2: Baroness Grey-Thompson (XB - Life peer) a prosperous, resilient, healthier and more equal Wales; a Wales of cohesive communities; a vibrant culture - Link to Speech
3: Lord Hampton (XB - Excepted Hereditary) Once you got them together, it did not matter what culture they were from. - Link to Speech
4: Lord Londesborough (XB - Excepted Hereditary) It was described by our Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport as “unapologetically ambitious - Link to Speech

Relationships, Sex and Health Education: Statutory Guidance
27 speeches (5,358 words)
Thursday 16th May 2024 - Lords Chamber
Department for Education
Mentions:
1: Earl Russell (LD - Excepted Hereditary) Government are choosing to water down the safeguarding of our children on the altar of yet another pointless culture - Link to Speech

Biodiversity Loss
49 speeches (14,433 words)
Wednesday 15th May 2024 - Westminster Hall
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Mentions:
1: Caroline Lucas (Green - Brighton, Pavilion) up the transition to net zero, rather than delaying action in a desperate attempt to stoke a climate culture - Link to Speech

China
36 speeches (13,655 words)
Wednesday 15th May 2024 - Westminster Hall
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
Mentions:
1: Bob Seely (Con - Isle of Wight) assertive defence of our interests, as well as understanding how decades of subversive conflict across culture - Link to Speech
2: Catherine West (Lab - Hornsey and Wood Green) brutal repression and horrific human rights abuses, including wholesale attempts to eliminate their culture - Link to Speech
3: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) Those include severe constraints on media freedom and freedom of religion or belief, repression of culture - Link to Speech

Under-10-Metre Fishing Fleet: South-West
25 speeches (9,577 words)
Wednesday 15th May 2024 - Westminster Hall
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Mentions:
1: Steve Double (Con - St Austell and Newquay) The fleet are also a key part of our local culture, shaping our local communities, not just through the - Link to Speech

Oral Answers to Questions
118 speeches (9,465 words)
Wednesday 15th May 2024 - Commons Chamber
Cabinet Office
Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) funding available to enable community events whereby each member of a community can demonstrate their culture - Link to Speech
2: Kemi Badenoch (Con - Saffron Walden) I recently had a roundtable with the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, and she and I agreed - Link to Speech

Criminal Justice Bill
131 speeches (46,794 words)
Report stage (day 1)
Wednesday 15th May 2024 - Commons Chamber
Home Office
Mentions:
1: None we can hold senior executives criminally liable for deliberately turning a blind eye or creating a culture - Link to Speech
2: Kim Johnson (Lab - Liverpool, Riverside) similar cases, the prosecution called police officers to give their opinion, as experts, on alleged gang culture - Link to Speech



Select Committee Documents
Friday 17th May 2024
Report - Twenty-First Report of Session 2023–24 - 8 Statutory Instruments Reported

Statutory Instruments (Joint Committee)

Found: 2024/254 11 Magistrates’ Courts (Amendment) Rules 2024 Appendix 2: Memorandum from the Department of Culture

Friday 17th May 2024
Special Report - Fourth Special Report - Health barriers for girls and women in sport: Government and Sport England responses to the Committee’s Third Report

Women and Equalities Committee

Found: special, and alternative provision settings to embed PE and school sport into the school ethos and culture

Friday 17th May 2024
Report - Second Report - Teacher recruitment, training and retention

Education Committee

Found: of teaching was created and the contract to provide this was awarded to a consortium of MATs School culture

Friday 17th May 2024
Special Report - Third Special Report - The FCDO’s approach to sexual and reproductive health: Government Response to the Committee’s First Report

International Development Committee

Found: safeguarding risks, and we work closely with partners to ensure organisations have a strong safeguarding culture

Thursday 16th May 2024
Written Evidence - Reset
DAT0006 - UK-EU data adequacy

UK-EU data adequacy - European Affairs Committee

Found: Implementing Decision of 28 June 2021 (the “ Adequacy Decision”). 2 Data: a new direction, launched by the Department

Thursday 16th May 2024
Written Evidence - Hurford Salvi Carr
HBS0004 - Improving the home buying and selling process

Improving the home buying and selling process - Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Committee

Found: The culture in residential transactions in the UK is that buyers are not represented by an agent during

Thursday 16th May 2024
Written Evidence - Fidler & Pepper Lawyers
HBS0023 - Improving the home buying and selling process

Improving the home buying and selling process - Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Committee

Found: streamlining the process has had a negative impact on consumer experience as they expect a 24/7 culture

Thursday 16th May 2024
Written Evidence - Legal Marketing Services Limited
HBS0064 - Improving the home buying and selling process

Improving the home buying and selling process - Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Committee

Found: transaction currently do not share a vision of the process and this can lead to conflicts and a blame culture

Thursday 16th May 2024
Written Evidence - The Conveyancing Association
HBS0046 - Improving the home buying and selling process

Improving the home buying and selling process - Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Committee

Found: issues, which if resolved, would improve the process would be a change in structures of titles, the culture

Thursday 16th May 2024
Written Evidence - The Property Ombudsman
HBS0068 - Improving the home buying and selling process

Improving the home buying and selling process - Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Committee

Found: asking for upfront bonds tied to the successful completion of the sale, especially where the current culture

Wednesday 15th May 2024
Written Evidence - New Look
SFS0005 - Sustainability of the fashion sector: follow up

Environmental Audit Committee

Found: It comprises of four key pillars: Responsible Business, Responsible & Circular Product, Inclusive Culture

Wednesday 15th May 2024
Written Evidence - Cranfield University
CCS0025 - Climate change and security

Climate change and security - Environmental Audit Committee

Found: for this this research was to develop a methodology that could be used to measure organisational culture

Wednesday 15th May 2024
Written Evidence - The Royal Society of Biology
CCS0010 - Climate change and security

Climate change and security - Environmental Audit Committee

Found: resilient crops); fit for purpose funding frameworks for research and development should support a culture

Wednesday 15th May 2024
Written Evidence - Conflict and Environment Observatory
CCS0019 - Climate change and security

Climate change and security - Environmental Audit Committee

Found: to climate-related emergencies and cooperation, including the difference in organisational culture

Wednesday 15th May 2024
Written Evidence - King's College London, King's College London, King's College London, Imperial College London, and Reporting Project on Mexico’s Environmental Defenders
CCS0027 - Climate change and security

Climate change and security - Environmental Audit Committee

Found: away from short-termist, protectionist and mini- maxing approaches to strategy, and towards a culture

Wednesday 15th May 2024
Written Evidence - Staffordshire University, and University of Wolverhampton
CCS0026 - Climate change and security

Climate change and security - Environmental Audit Committee

Found: that discourage female victims from reporting, including religion, shame, stigma, and a patriarchal culture

Wednesday 15th May 2024
Written Evidence - CAFOD
CCS0028 - Climate change and security

Climate change and security - Environmental Audit Committee

Found: faith-based groups and others working on human rights and other issues regardless of religion or culture

Wednesday 15th May 2024
Written Evidence - Save Windermere
WQI0025 - Water quality and water infrastructure: follow-up

Environmental Audit Committee

Found: Matt Staniek asserts that the EA's handling of the request indicates a culture of secrecy within

Wednesday 15th May 2024
Written Evidence - Water UK
WQI0038 - Water quality and water infrastructure: follow-up

Environmental Audit Committee

Found: I have annexed some more specific thoughts on how Ofwat can shift its culture towards better enabling

Wednesday 15th May 2024
Written Evidence - Dr Christine Grant, Dr Carlo Tramontano, Dr Maria Charalampous, Dr Emma Russell; Dr Deborah Leveroy
DYE0061 - Disability employment

Disability employment - Work and Pensions Committee

Found: people) including working time, work environment, self-efficacy and for organisations developing a culture

Wednesday 15th May 2024
Written Evidence - Suffolk Energy Action Solutions (SEAS)
GRI0138 - A flexible grid for the future

A flexible Grid for the future - Energy Security and Net Zero Committee

Found: A developer-led “free for all” culture is no longer appropriate for the scaling-up of this energy

Wednesday 15th May 2024
Report - Thirty-Second Report - Delivering value from government investment in major projects

Public Accounts Committee

Found: of evaluation and modelling, we stated: “Without the right incentives, improvements to oversight and culture

Tuesday 14th May 2024
Written Evidence - Stewart Purvis CBE, and Chris Banatvala
FON0072 - The future of news: impartiality, trust and technology

The future of news: impartiality, trust and technology - Communications and Digital Committee

Found: Voice of the Listener and Viewer conference in London and then answered questions from the BBC’s Culture

Tuesday 14th May 2024
Oral Evidence - Angel Trains Ltd

Transport Committee

Found: that this will pave the way for a Network Rail 2.0, whereas what everyone is hoping for is a new culture

Tuesday 14th May 2024
Written Evidence - Focus on Labour Exploitation (FLEX)
MSA0088 - Modern Slavery Act 2015

Modern Slavery Act 2015 - Modern Slavery Act 2015 Committee

Found: This has helped to make secure reporting part of their culture, and ensures that officers are

Tuesday 14th May 2024
Written Evidence - Sophie Hayes Foundation
MSA0061 - Modern Slavery Act 2015

Modern Slavery Act 2015 - Modern Slavery Act 2015 Committee

Found: deliberate conflation of the distinct group of survivors of slavery and trafficking with broader culture

Tuesday 14th May 2024
Written Evidence - Queen's University Belfast
MSA0050 - Modern Slavery Act 2015

Modern Slavery Act 2015 - Modern Slavery Act 2015 Committee

Found: Andreas Rühmkorf, ‘Steering CSR Through Home State Regulation: A Comparison 15To create a TISC culture

Tuesday 14th May 2024
Written Evidence - Hestia
MSA0042 - Modern Slavery Act 2015

Modern Slavery Act 2015 - Modern Slavery Act 2015 Committee

Found: The practice of asylum seekers being detained at Immigration Reporting Centres has created a culture

Tuesday 14th May 2024
Written Evidence - techUK
MSA0032 - Modern Slavery Act 2015

Modern Slavery Act 2015 - Modern Slavery Act 2015 Committee

Found: The Act has also failed to meet the needs of an increasingly prevalent culture of corporate transparency

Tuesday 14th May 2024
Written Evidence - UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association (UKSIF)
MSA0034 - Modern Slavery Act 2015

Modern Slavery Act 2015 - Modern Slavery Act 2015 Committee

Found: press nor regulations in place requiring reporting by companies, or alternatively where there is a culture

Tuesday 14th May 2024
Written Evidence - Rights Lab at the University of Nottingham
MSA0024 - Modern Slavery Act 2015

Modern Slavery Act 2015 - Modern Slavery Act 2015 Committee

Found: Bring a positive change in organisational culture.

Tuesday 14th May 2024
Written Evidence - Barnardo's
MSA0029 - Modern Slavery Act 2015

Modern Slavery Act 2015 - Modern Slavery Act 2015 Committee

Found: We need a culture shift to a victims’ approach.

Tuesday 14th May 2024
Written Evidence - Larissa (Lara) Kaput
MSA0019 - Modern Slavery Act 2015

Modern Slavery Act 2015 - Modern Slavery Act 2015 Committee

Found: in Depth addresses cultural, spiritual and religious abuse: “A perpetrator may use a person’s culture

Tuesday 14th May 2024
Written Evidence - The Wilberforce Institute, University of Hull
MSA0020 - Modern Slavery Act 2015

Modern Slavery Act 2015 - Modern Slavery Act 2015 Committee

Found: the civil courts and the family courts leading to a denial of victimhood in a prosecution-led culture

Tuesday 14th May 2024
Written Evidence - Nordic Model Now!
MSA0012 - Modern Slavery Act 2015

Modern Slavery Act 2015 - Modern Slavery Act 2015 Committee

Found: circumstances of poverty, racism and inequality, a history of sexual abuse, and growing up in a culture

Tuesday 14th May 2024
Written Evidence - University of Bristol
MSA0004 - Modern Slavery Act 2015

Modern Slavery Act 2015 - Modern Slavery Act 2015 Committee

Found: In other words, there is a slowly growing culture of asking more challenging questions and gathering

Tuesday 14th May 2024
Oral Evidence - Sabhal Mor Ostaig, Bòrd na Gàidhlig, and Professor Rob Dunbar

Minority languages - Culture, Media and Sport Committee

Found: Culture, Media and Sport Committee Oral evidence: Minority languages, HC 178 Tuesday 14 May 2024, Glasgow

Tuesday 14th May 2024
Oral Evidence - C4X Discovery, SynBioVen, and Potter Clarkson

Engineering biology - Science and Technology Committee (Lords)

Found: those two things, although everybody talks about entrepreneurial management: people with the right culture

Tuesday 14th May 2024
Special Report - Fifth Special Report - Sexism in the City: HM Treasury, Prudential Regulation Authority and Financial Conduct Authority Responses to the Committee’s Sixth Report

Treasury Committee

Found: this important area, not least given the many very concerning examples of poor industry practices and culture

Tuesday 14th May 2024
Oral Evidence - Scots Language Centre, Dr Dawn Leslie, and Professor Joanna Kopaczyk

Minority languages - Culture, Media and Sport Committee

Found: Culture, Media and Sport Committee Oral evidence: Minority languages, HC 178 Tuesday 14 May 2024, Glasgow

Tuesday 14th May 2024
Written Evidence - Little Heartbeats
PRT0082 - Preterm Birth

Preterm Birth - Preterm Birth Committee

Found: PPROM does not discriminate against any culture, and healthcare providers must be equipped to address

Tuesday 14th May 2024
Correspondence - Letter from the Chair to Rt Hon Alex Chalk KC MP, Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice, Ministry of Justice, dated 14 May 2024

Communications and Digital Committee

Found: Home Secretary , 21 April 2023 13 Letter from the Lord Chancellor and the Secretary of State for Culture

Tuesday 14th May 2024
Oral Evidence - Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, and Stephen Hickey

The UK’s engagement with the Middle East and North Africa - Foreign Affairs Committee

Found: Iran has a very rich culture.



Written Answers
Sports: Facilities
Asked by: Thangam Debbonaire (Labour - Bristol West)
Friday 17th May 2024

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will take steps to ensure there are no uninsulated overhead electricity cables at domestic sport facilities.

Answered by Stuart Andrew - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Culture, Media and Sport)

The safety, wellbeing and welfare of everyone taking part in sport is absolutely paramount. It is for individual sports clubs to carry out risk assessments and put in place mitigations that will improve player safety.

Sport England, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport arm's length body for grassroots sport, is not a regulator of community sport but does provide guidance to help sports clubs carry out risk assessments, as do national governing bodies of sport.

For each new sports facility built, there is a legal obligation shared between developers, designers and contractors to promote health and safety. This applies throughout the entire project cycle from design and construction through to operation, maintenance and demolition. This obligation is given in the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations - https://www.hse.gov.uk/construction/cdm/2015/index.htm. Any breach of these regulations is a criminal offence.

In addition, Sections 2 and 3 of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 outline ongoing duties to protect workers and members of the public from risk.

The Health and Safety Executive and others, including the Energy Networks Association, have also produced guidance in relation to safety around overhead lines.

Charities: Food Technology
Asked by: Andrew Bridgen (Independent - North West Leicestershire)
Friday 17th May 2024

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will take steps to provide support to (a) Coalville CAN and (b) other charities that provide cooking lessons for children and elderly people.

Answered by Stuart Andrew - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Culture, Media and Sport)

There is a range of funding available for organisations that are working to support and improve their communities. The ‘Find a grant’ service is a search function which helps organisations search for government grants. The filtering system allows you to select grants which are open to applications from non-profits (https://www.gov.uk/guidance/find-government-grants).

The National Lottery Community Fund also hosts a number of funding programmes (https://www.tnlcommunityfund.org.uk/funding).

At a more local level, most areas of the country have Community Foundations that manage at least one local grant fund or can offer guidance (https://www.ukcommunityfoundations.org/)

George Beaumont
Asked by: Andrew Bridgen (Independent - North West Leicestershire)
Friday 17th May 2024

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether she plans to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the death of Sir George Beaumont.

Answered by Julia Lopez - Minister of State (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology)

May 2024 marks the 200th anniversary of the founding of the National Gallery. Sir George Beaumont played a crucial role in the Gallery's creation, both campaigning for its formation and donating his own art to what has become one of our greatest institutions. He died just three years later in 1827. Two hundred years on from when the Gallery was founded for the nation, it continues to bring great paintings and people together.

The Gallery is marking its bicentenary with an exciting year of activities, special displays, online events, exhibitions, and significant loans to other galleries across the UK – with everyone, everywhere welcome. The Arts Minister, Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay, was delighted to have attended the gallery last week to take part in the official start to the celebrations.


Department for Culture, Media and Sport: Food
Asked by: John Hayes (Conservative - South Holland and The Deepings)
Friday 17th May 2024

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what her Department's policy is on the procurement of (a) food and (b) drinks produced in Britain for use in its canteens and restaurants.

Answered by Julia Lopez - Minister of State (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology)

DCMS does not own any canteens or restaurants. The canteen facilities we use are provided by our landlords, and we have no involvement in the provision of food and drink to those facilities. For our London headquarters, this is overseen by the Government Property Agency.

Theatres: Government Assistance
Asked by: Damien Moore (Conservative - Southport)
Friday 17th May 2024

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department has taken to support (a) small and (b) independent theatres.

Answered by Julia Lopez - Minister of State (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology)

His Majesty’s Government is committed to supporting the arts and cultural sector, including theatres. This is primarily through the Arts Council England whose funding for National Portfolio Organisations has increased to £444.6 million per annum, funding a record 985 organisations, including 214 new organisations outside of London.

Arts Council England invests in nearly 200 theatres or theatre companies that produce, commission, and present theatre, in addition to arts centres, festivals and outdoor theatre companies. These range from large theatres in cities - Liverpool Theatres, Manchester Royal Exchange, Sheffield Theatres - to smaller theatres and theatre companies often with a particular specialism, such as theatre for children, theatre with a disability focus, theatre companies that co-create with different communities or theatre companies that are designed to tour. Overall investment in theatre has increased through the current round of the Arts Council’s National Portfolio programme – both in terms of the number of organisations supported, and the volume of funding which is now more than £110 million per annum.

A number of theatres are also regularly supported through the Arts Council’s open access National Lottery Project Grants programme which has a budget of £116.8 million a year. This is a rolling programme and is open to artists and companies across the country.

Department for Culture, Media and Sport: Contracts
Asked by: Emily Thornberry (Labour - Islington South and Finsbury)
Thursday 16th May 2024

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the Minister without Portfolio's article of 12 May 2024 in The Sunday Telegraph, when her Department expects to terminate its contract with Vercida Ltd., procurement reference 103841; and whether a notice period will be required under the provisions of that contract.

Answered by Julia Lopez - Minister of State (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology)

DCMS’s current contract with Vercida is set to expire on 1 October 2024 and continuation of the service will be considered at that point in light of the Cabinet Office guidance.

Football: Voluntary Work
Asked by: Thangam Debbonaire (Labour - Bristol West)
Wednesday 15th May 2024

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make an estimate of the number of volunteers there were in amateur football in (a) 2010, (b) 2019 and (c) 2023.

Answered by Stuart Andrew - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Culture, Media and Sport)

The Government tracks activity levels through Sport England’s Active Lives surveys. Two surveys run annually: Active Lives Adult, and Active Lives Children and Young People. These surveys measure the activity levels of people across England and allows the Government to collect accurate data on what and how much sport and physical activity different groups are participating in. You can find out more about the surveys on Sport England's website.

  • 2009/10

    • Active People survey - 15.2 million people took part in sport and wider physical activity for an average of at least 30 minutes a week.

    • Children and young people - Sport England only started collecting data in 2017.

  • 2018/19

    • Active Lives Adult survey - 28.6 million took part in 150+ minutes of activity a week.

    • Active Lives Children and Young People survey - 3.3 million doing an average of 60+ minutes per day.

  • 2022/23

    • Active Lives Adult survey - 29.5 million took part in 150+ minutes of activity a week.

    • Active Lives Children and Young people survey - 3.5 million doing an average of 60+ minutes per day.

It’s important to note that comparing data on a consistent basis across this time is not possible as the methodologies and metrics employed changed to reflect changes in the Chief Medical Officers’ (CMO) guidance.

Since 2010, the CMO guidelines on physical activity changed from five separate sessions of 30 minutes of at least moderate intensity physical activity in a week to at least 150 minutes of moderate equivalent intensity physical activity a week. In addition to this, Sport England’s remit has extended to include recreational activities and active travel.

Sport England does not record the number of volunteers in amateur football.

Sports
Asked by: Thangam Debbonaire (Labour - Bristol West)
Wednesday 15th May 2024

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make an estimate of the number of people that played grassroots sport in England in (a) 2010, (b) 2019 and (c) 2023.

Answered by Stuart Andrew - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Culture, Media and Sport)

The Government tracks activity levels through Sport England’s Active Lives surveys. Two surveys run annually: Active Lives Adult, and Active Lives Children and Young People. These surveys measure the activity levels of people across England and allows the Government to collect accurate data on what and how much sport and physical activity different groups are participating in. You can find out more about the surveys on Sport England's website.

  • 2009/10

    • Active People survey - 15.2 million people took part in sport and wider physical activity for an average of at least 30 minutes a week.

    • Children and young people - Sport England only started collecting data in 2017.

  • 2018/19

    • Active Lives Adult survey - 28.6 million took part in 150+ minutes of activity a week.

    • Active Lives Children and Young People survey - 3.3 million doing an average of 60+ minutes per day.

  • 2022/23

    • Active Lives Adult survey - 29.5 million took part in 150+ minutes of activity a week.

    • Active Lives Children and Young people survey - 3.5 million doing an average of 60+ minutes per day.

It’s important to note that comparing data on a consistent basis across this time is not possible as the methodologies and metrics employed changed to reflect changes in the Chief Medical Officers’ (CMO) guidance.

Since 2010, the CMO guidelines on physical activity changed from five separate sessions of 30 minutes of at least moderate intensity physical activity in a week to at least 150 minutes of moderate equivalent intensity physical activity a week. In addition to this, Sport England’s remit has extended to include recreational activities and active travel.

Sport England does not record the number of volunteers in amateur football.

Film and Television: Government Assistance
Asked by: Thangam Debbonaire (Labour - Bristol West)
Wednesday 15th May 2024

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to support lower budget film and TV programmes.

Answered by Julia Lopez - Minister of State (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology)

The UK Government has a clear plan to grow the creative industries by a further £50 billion and support another 1 million jobs by 2030. This was set out in June 2023 in the Creative Industries Sector Vision, which was accompanied by £77 million of new funding to support the sector’s growth.

We are taking steps to support producers of all sizes and the production sector more generally. This includes generous tax reliefs across studio space and visual effects, investing in studio infrastructure, and supporting innovation and promoting independent content through the UK Global Screen Fund.

At Spring Budget 2024, the Chancellor also announced the UK Independent Film Tax Credit. Eligible films with production budgets (excluding marketing and distribution) of up to £15 million will be able to opt-in to claim enhanced Audio-Visual Expenditure Credit at a rate of 53% on their qualifying expenditure.

This is in addition to our long standing interventions supporting the independent television production sector, including the independent productions quota and associated Terms of Trade regime, which have been extremely successful in furthering the diversity of the sector and its output.



Parliamentary Research
Gypsies and travellers: educational outcomes - CBP-10016
May. 17 2024

Found: e page on Gypsies and Travellers . 1 Traveller Movement, Gypsy Roma and Traveller History and Culture

Refugees and the UK's international aid response - CBP-10024
May. 15 2024

Found: , food insecurity, vulnerability to sexual and gender -based violence, stereotyping based on their culture



National Audit Office
May. 17 2024
Implementing statutory biodiversity net gain (webpage)

Found: Money and tax People and operations Project and service delivery Risk and resilience Society and culture

May. 16 2024
Local government financial sustainability (webpage)

Found: Money and tax People and operations Project and service delivery Risk and resilience Society and culture

May. 15 2024
HMRC customer service (webpage)

Found: Money and tax People and operations Project and service delivery Risk and resilience Society and culture

May. 14 2024
BBC Commercial Activities (webpage)

Found: Money and tax People and operations Project and service delivery Risk and resilience Society and culture

May. 14 2024
HS2: update following cancellation of Phase 2 (webpage)

Found: Money and tax People and operations Project and service delivery Risk and resilience Society and culture



Department Publications - Statistics
Friday 17th May 2024
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology
Source Page: International Scientific Report on the Safety of Advanced AI
Document: (PDF)

Found: General -purpose AI outputs can be biased with respect to protected characteristics like race, gender, culture

Friday 17th May 2024
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology
Source Page: International Scientific Report on the Safety of Advanced AI
Document: International Scientific Report on the Safety of Advanced AI (webpage)

Found: for instance through biassed decisions with respect to protected characteristics like race, gender, culture

Thursday 16th May 2024
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero
Source Page: Climate Finance Accelerator (CFA): evaluation
Document: (PDF)

Found: In keeping with Egypt’s current ‘start -up culture’, most projects were at an earlier stage than the

Thursday 16th May 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities
Source Page: CIPFA local government finance review: Lambeth Council
Document: (PDF)

Found: assessment of Lambeth Council’s financial governance/management processes, leadership, operational culture

Thursday 16th May 2024
Department for Work and Pensions
Source Page: Experience of claiming and receiving Carer’s Allowance
Document: Work and Pensions Select Committee inquiry (PDF)

Found: The Permanent Secretary acknowledged that the Department needed to do more to develop its culture.

Wednesday 15th May 2024
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology
Source Page: CHERI adoption and diffusion research
Document: (PDF)

Found: Institute of Information Security, DSbD mailing list, in-person security events and the DSIT (then the Department

Wednesday 15th May 2024
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology
Source Page: Research on the cyber security of AI
Document: (PDF)

Found: Understanding AI uptake and sentiment among people and businesses in the UK, June 2023” report , and the Department

Wednesday 15th May 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
Source Page: DCMS Economic Estimates: Monthly GVA (to Mar 2024)
Document: (ODS)

Found: Galleries and Libraries Music, performing and visual arts Arts Film, TV and Music Radio Photography Crafts (Culture

Wednesday 15th May 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
Source Page: DCMS Economic Estimates: Monthly GVA (to Mar 2024)
Document: DCMS Economic Estimates: Monthly GVA (to Mar 2024) (webpage)

Found: From: Department for Culture, Media and Sport Published 15 May 2024 Get emails about this

Wednesday 15th May 2024
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology
Source Page: New Zealand: UK Science and Innovation Network summary
Document: (PDF)

Found: Science and Innovation Ecosystem New Zealand has a high impact science ecosystem and innovation culture

Tuesday 14th May 2024
Home Office
Source Page: Student visa: Views of students and higher education institutions
Document: (ODS)

Found: *32% 0.34 0.35 0.37 0.35 *33% 0.33 ad ade ad c bc a b b Familiarity with British culture



Department Publications - Research
Friday 17th May 2024
HM Treasury
Source Page: Public Spending Statistics release: May 2024
Document: (ODS)

Found: Recreation, culture and religion 7.7 7.8 8.6 9.3 9.7 10 10.8 11.4 11.9 12.4 13.2 13 12.5 12.7 11.6 12.4

Friday 17th May 2024
HM Treasury
Source Page: Public Spending Statistics release: May 2024
Document: (ODS)

Found: Local Government 4834 8572 20907 21262 11772 DLUHC - Housing and Communities 2355 2801 2711 2769 3866 Culture



Department Publications - News and Communications
Thursday 16th May 2024
Cabinet Office
Source Page: Deputy PM leads largest UK business delegation for over a decade
Document: Deputy PM leads largest UK business delegation for over a decade (webpage)

Found: event are the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, Kemi Badenoch, the Secretary of State for Culture

Thursday 16th May 2024
Northern Ireland Office
Source Page: UK government reaches new trade milestone for Northern Ireland businesses
Document: UK government reaches new trade milestone for Northern Ireland businesses (webpage)

Found: advising on shared challenges and opportunities with an East-West dimension, such as trade promotion, culture

Wednesday 15th May 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
Source Page: Arts & Heritage Minister Lord Parkinson's speech to the Arts and Humanities Research Council
Document: Arts & Heritage Minister Lord Parkinson's speech to the Arts and Humanities Research Council (webpage)

Found: Bruno, the way that you have placed art and culture at the very centre of your posting to the Court of

Tuesday 14th May 2024
Cabinet Office
Source Page: Deputy Prime Minister speech at GREAT FUTURES event
Document: Deputy Prime Minister speech at GREAT FUTURES event (webpage)

Found: But for me, as a former Culture Secretary, one of the most exciting areas of collaboration is the cultural

Tuesday 14th May 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
Source Page: Culture Secretary speech at GREAT Futures
Document: Culture Secretary speech at GREAT Futures (webpage)

Found: Culture Secretary speech at GREAT Futures

Tuesday 14th May 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities
Source Page: New levelling up powers to fill empty shops across England
Document: Improving access to greenspace: 2020 review (publishing.service.gov.uk) (PDF)

Found: unintended consequence of improvements to greenspace, leads to change s in the social environment, local culture



Department Publications - Consultations
Thursday 16th May 2024
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero
Source Page: Managing radioactive substances and nuclear decommissioning
Document: (PDF)

Found: consider this to be key to good decision- making, optioneering, and prioritisation. 9.22 A different culture

Thursday 16th May 2024
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero
Source Page: Managing radioactive substances and nuclear decommissioning
Document: (PDF)

Found: consider this to be key to good decision- making, optioneering, and prioritisation. 9.27 A different culture

Thursday 16th May 2024
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero
Source Page: Managing radioactive substances and nuclear decommissioning
Document: (PDF)

Found: The National LLW Programme has driven a change in thinking, behaviours and culture in waste owners and

Thursday 16th May 2024
Department for Transport
Source Page: Lowering the minimum age requirement for train drivers from 20 to 18
Document: (PDF)

Found: This reflects the culture of the industry today, which focuses on learning from experience and sharing



Department Publications - Guidance
Thursday 16th May 2024
HM Treasury
Source Page: Business case guidance for projects and programmes
Document: (PDF)

Found: of the change management strategy is to assess the potential impact of the proposed change on the culture

Thursday 16th May 2024
HM Treasury
Source Page: Business case guidance for projects and programmes
Document: (PDF)

Found: of the change management strategy is to assess the potential impact of the proposed change on the culture



Department Publications - Policy and Engagement
Thursday 16th May 2024
Department for Business and Trade
Source Page: Smarter regulation: one year on
Document: (PDF)

Found: To further support our local communities, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport has today published

Thursday 16th May 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
Source Page: National Heritage Memorial Fund framework document 2024-2027
Document: National Heritage Memorial Fund framework document 2024-2027 (webpage)

Found: From: Department for Culture, Media and Sport and National Heritage Memorial Fund Published 16 May



Department Publications - Policy paper
Wednesday 15th May 2024
Ministry of Justice
Source Page: Whatton Prison: Action Plan
Document: (PDF)

Found: approach to behaviour management which created a risk to the prison’s key strengths and positive culture

Wednesday 15th May 2024
Ministry of Justice
Source Page: Whatton Prison: Action Plan
Document: inspection report for Whatton Prison (PDF)

Found: prison, but leaders need to address some of the punitive treatment of prisoners that has entered the culture



Non-Departmental Publications - News and Communications
May. 17 2024
Competition and Markets Authority
Source Page: CMA to host 2025 International Competition Network Conference
Document: CMA to host 2025 International Competition Network Conference (webpage)
News and Communications

Found: conferences around the globe, so we’re excited to take the baton and welcome other members to Edinburgh, the culture-rich

May. 16 2024
Rail Accident Investigation Branch
Source Page: Report 04/2024: Runaway wagon at Kineton
Document: R042024_240516_Kineton (PDF)
News and Communications

Found: are associated with the underlying management arrangements or organisational issues (such as working culture

May. 15 2024
Youth Justice Board for England and Wales
Source Page: Redefining our role – embracing our new values
Document: Redefining our role – embracing our new values (webpage)
News and Communications

Found: They are the principles that will shape the YJB’s culture, strategy, and outcomes.

May. 14 2024
Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
Source Page: NRS celebrates community growth
Document: NRS celebrates community growth (webpage)
News and Communications

Found: communities establish social enterprises, support new businesses, and add to the area’s heritage and culture



Non-Departmental Publications - Statistics
May. 17 2024
AI Safety Institute
Source Page: International Scientific Report on the Safety of Advanced AI
Document: (PDF)
Statistics

Found: General -purpose AI outputs can be biased with respect to protected characteristics like race, gender, culture

May. 17 2024
AI Safety Institute
Source Page: International Scientific Report on the Safety of Advanced AI
Document: International Scientific Report on the Safety of Advanced AI (webpage)
Statistics

Found: for instance through biassed decisions with respect to protected characteristics like race, gender, culture

May. 16 2024
Department for Communities (Northern Ireland)
Source Page: Creative Industries Economic Estimates 2023
Document: Creative Industries Economic Estimates 2023 (webpage)
Statistics

Found: This bulletin provides findings from the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) Economic Estimates



Non-Departmental Publications - Transparency
May. 17 2024
Government Internal Audit Agency
Source Page: Government Internal Audit Agency Corporate Plan 2024-25
Document: (PDF)
Transparency

Found: ▪ A response to the Mind Workplace Wellbeing survey that further encourages positive behaviours and culture

May. 16 2024
Rail Accident Investigation Branch
Source Page: Report 04/2024: Runaway wagon at Kineton
Document: R042024_240516_Kineton (PDF)
Transparency

Found: are associated with the underlying management arrangements or organisational issues (such as working culture

May. 14 2024
Forestry Commission
Source Page: Board of Commissioners meeting, 13 July 2023
Document: (PDF)
Transparency

Found: We will build upon our People Strategy commitment to creating a positive culture where all may thrive

May. 14 2024
Forestry Commission
Source Page: Board of Commissioners meeting, 8 December 2022, London
Document: (webpage)
Transparency

Found: 2022, enabling us to move beyond meeting our legal obligations to providing a stronger safeguarding culture

May. 14 2024
Forestry Commission
Source Page: Board of Commissioners meeting, 8 December 2022, London
Document: (webpage)
Transparency

Found: England, provide leadership through setting the standards for how Forestry England does its work and the culture



Non-Departmental Publications - Policy paper
May. 16 2024
National Heritage Memorial Fund
Source Page: National Heritage Memorial Fund framework document 2024-2027
Document: National Heritage Memorial Fund framework document 2024-2027 (webpage)
Policy paper

Found: From: Department for Culture, Media and Sport and National Heritage Memorial Fund Published 16 May



Non-Departmental Publications - Policy and Engagement
May. 15 2024
HM Prison and Probation Service
Source Page: Whatton Prison: Action Plan
Document: (PDF)
Policy and Engagement

Found: approach to behaviour management which created a risk to the prison’s key strengths and positive culture

May. 15 2024
HM Prison and Probation Service
Source Page: Whatton Prison: Action Plan
Document: inspection report for Whatton Prison (PDF)
Policy and Engagement

Found: prison, but leaders need to address some of the punitive treatment of prisoners that has entered the culture



Deposited Papers
Friday 17th May 2024

Source Page: I. Call for views on the Code of Practice for software vendors. Incl. annexes. 39p. II. Letter dated 15/05/2024 from Viscount Camrose to Baroness Stowell of Beeston regarding the Government’s Call for Views on the Code of Practice for software vendors. 2p. II. .
Document: Call_for_Views_on_the_Code_of_Practice_for_Software_Vendors.pdf (PDF)

Found: implements and publishes an effective vulnerability disclosure process to support a transparent and open culture

Thursday 16th May 2024
Department for Education
Source Page: I. Draft Relationships Education, Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) and Health education: Statutory guidance for governing bodies, proprietors, head teachers, principals, senior leadership teams, teachers. 44p. II. Review of the Relationships Education, Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) and Health education statutory guidance. Government consultation. 27p. III. Letter dated 16/05/2024 from Gillian Keegan MP to the Deposited papers clerk regarding the above documents for deposit in the House libraries. 1p.
Document: Draft_RSE_and_Health_Education_statutory_guidance.pdf (PDF)

Found: such as everyday sexism, misogyny, homophobia and sex stereotypes, and should take action to build a culture

Thursday 16th May 2024
Cabinet Office
Source Page: I. Civil Service equality, diversity and inclusion expenditure guidance. 5p. II. Guidance on diversity and inclusion and impartiality requirements for Civil Servants. 10p.
Document: Diversity_and_Inclusion_and_Impartiality_Requirements.pdf (PDF)

Found: We want the Civil Service to have a truly diverse workforce and culture of openness and inclusivity.

Thursday 16th May 2024
Cabinet Office
Source Page: I. Civil Service equality, diversity and inclusion expenditure guidance. 5p. II. Guidance on diversity and inclusion and impartiality requirements for Civil Servants. 10p.
Document: Civil_Service_Equality_Diversity_and_Inclusion_Guidance.docx.pdf (PDF)

Found: biggest impact for all our people: recruitment, talent management, learning & development, leadership, culture

Tuesday 14th May 2024

Source Page: I. Best value standards and intervention: A statutory guide for best value authorities: a) Guidance and b) Government response to consultation. (2 docs.) II. Letter dated 08/05/2024 from Max Soule Deputy Director Local Government Stewardship to Liz Watts Chief Executive, South Cambridgeshire District Council regarding Best Value Notice issued to the Council. 3p. III. CIPFA Reviews of debt/investment risk profile for: a) Warrington Borough Council, b) Spelthorne Borough Council (2 docs). IV. Letter dated 08/05/2024 from Max Soule to Andrew Lewis regarding Liverpool City Council - proposed move to a statutory assurance and improvement board. 7p.
Document: official_Spelthorne_CIPFA_report.docx (webpage)

Found: the commercial portfolio and a thorough examination of the Council’s governance and decision-making culture




Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Coronavirus mentioned in Scottish results


Scottish Select Committee Publications
Friday 17th May 2024
Correspondence - Letter from the Director-General Corporate, Scottish Government to the Convener of 17 May 2024
Public administration - Scottish Government Continuous Improvement Programme - Letter of 17 May 2024

Finance and Public Administration Committee

Found: Administration Committee was provided with the final update on the Continuous Improvement Programme for culture

Friday 17th May 2024
Correspondence - Letter from the Director-General Corporate, Scottish Government to the Convener of 17 May 2024
Public administration - Scottish Government Scheme of Delegation - Letter of 17 May 2024

Finance and Public Administration Committee

Found: • Ensures a consistent culture and approach to the application of financial responsibilities.

Wednesday 15th May 2024
Report - This report sets out the Committee's views in relation to Additional Support for Learning and how the Education (Additional Support for Learning) (Scotland) Act 2004 Act is working in practice 20 years on.
Additional Support for Learning inquiry

Education, Children and Young People Committee

Found: out the following four key conditions for delivery— •Values driven leadership; •An open and robust culture

Tuesday 14th May 2024
Correspondence - Correspondence from Claire Cullen, Head of Gaelic and Scots, Scottish Government, 14 May 2024
Response to ECYP Committee on staffing and resources - follow up to evidence session on 1 May 2024

Education, Children and Young People Committee

Found: and Gàidhlig is conaltradh” (fluent) on site at Scotland's National Centre for Gaelic Language and Culture

Friday 10th May 2024
Correspondence - Correspondence from the Convener to Roy Brannen, Director-General Net Zero, Sottish Government, 10 May 2024
The 2022/23 audit of the Water Industry Commission for Scotland: PAC to Scottish Government May 2024

Inquiry: The 2022/23 audit of the Water Industry Commission for Scotland
Committee: Public Audit Committee

Found: A change in culture is required and this cannot be done through revising policies and procedures alone

Friday 10th May 2024
Correspondence - Correspondence from the Convener to David Satti, Interim Chief Executive, Water Industry Commission for Scotland, 10 May 2024
The 202223 audit of the Water Industry Commission PAC to WICS May 2024

Inquiry: The 2022/23 audit of the Water Industry Commission for Scotland
Committee: Public Audit Committee

Found: Culture within the Commission In the section 22 report, the Auditor General for Scotland (AGS) stated

Thursday 9th May 2024
Correspondence - Correspondence from the Convener to Christine McLaughlin, Co-Director of Population Health, Scottish Government, 9 May 2024
The 2022/23 audit of NHS Forth Valley: Follow up to Scottish Government

Public Audit Committee

Found: Performance Escalation Framework in November 2022 due to concerns relating to governance, leadership and culture

Friday 3rd May 2024
Correspondence - Correspondence to the Convener from Roy Brannen, Director-General Net Zero, Scottish Government, 3 May 2024
The 2022/23 audit of the Water Industry Commission for Scotland: Scottish Government response May 2024

Inquiry: The 2022/23 audit of the Water Industry Commission for Scotland
Committee: Public Audit Committee

Found: The issues raised by Audit Scotland are specific to WICS and the culture that prevailed at the time

Wednesday 24th April 2024
Correspondence - Correspondence to the Convener from Maree Todd, Minister for Social Care, Mental Wellbeing and Sport, Scottish Government, 24 April 2024
Adult mental health: Scottish Government response to Committee's Adult mental health report

Inquiry: Adult mental health
Committee: Public Audit Committee

Found: ssionate leadership practices and ensure app ropriately trained and skilled in leadership to promote a culture

Wednesday 24th April 2024
Correspondence - Correspondence to the Convener from Michelle Ashford, Chief Operating Officer, Water Industry Commission for Scotland, 24 April 2024
The 2022/23 audit of the Water Industry Commission for Scotland: Written submission from the Chief Operating Officer, WICS

Inquiry: The 2022/23 audit of the Water Industry Commission for Scotland
Committee: Public Audit Committee

Found: A change in culture is required and this cannot be done through revising policies and procedures alone



Scottish Cross Party Group Publications
Minutes of the meeting held on 27 February 2024 (PDF)
Source Page: Cross-Party Group in the Scottish Parliament on Food
Published: 27th Feb 2024

Found: In addition, the government want to ensure a thriving food culture in Scotland with a prosperous and

Minutes for Meeting held on 14 December 2023 (PDF)
Source Page: Cross-Party Group in the Scottish Parliament on Sport
Published: 14th Dec 2023

Found: Gavin Yates, CPG on Disability Apologies Clare Adamson MSP Fraser Calderwood, Leisure and Culture



Scottish Government Publications
Thursday 9th May 2024
Environment and Forestry Directorate
Source Page: 2022-2027 Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture (ENRA) Research Programme Mid-programme Review Report
Document: Annex A: SRP Project Review Outputs (Excel)

Found: Important as agreed at workshopnone identifiedMRI-A2-1Development and use of advanced in vitro culture

Thursday 9th May 2024
Environment and Forestry Directorate
Source Page: 2022-2027 Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture (ENRA) Research Programme Mid-programme Review Report
Document: 2022-2027 Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture (ENRA) Research Programme: Mid-programme Review Report (PDF)

Found: programme has been identified as Critical, including the development and use of advanced in vitro culture

Thursday 9th May 2024
Agriculture and Rural Economy Directorate
Source Page: The version of Hirta Sheep (Annex lI): EIR release
Document: FOI 202300385606 - Information Released - Annex A (PDF)

Found: Annex A Scottish Government Response to UK Government Digital, Culture From: [Redacted] - Section

Thursday 9th May 2024
Agriculture and Rural Economy Directorate
Source Page: The version of Hirta Sheep (Annex lI): EIR release
Document: The version of Hirta Sheep (Annex lI): EIR release (webpage)

Found: Please find at Annex A the Scottish Government’s email reply to UK Government Digital, Culture, Media

Thursday 9th May 2024

Source Page: Email correspondence between Scottish government ministers or special advisers and Sir Brian Souter: FOI release
Document: FOI 202300385453 - Information Released - Correspondence (PDF)

Found: More generally we talked about the culture of enterprise we need to create within Government so that



Scottish Written Answers
S6W-27190
Asked by: Mochan, Carol (Scottish Labour - South Scotland)
Monday 13th May 2024

Question

To ask the Scottish Government when it will set out a timeline for how any issues regarding understaffing of nurses as a result of the common staffing method will be resolved, as raised by the Royal College of Nursing Scotland.

Answered by Gray, Neil - Cabinet Secretary for NHS Recovery, Health and Social Care

Under the Health and Care (Staffing) (Scotland) Act 2019, Health Boards / Special Health Boards / NHS National Services Scotland must follow the common staffing method, which only applies to certain types of health care, provided in certain locations by certain employees (see annex A), at least once every financial year. It must then decide if any changes are needed as a result, both to the staffing establishment, for example an increase or decrease, and the way in which it provides health care, for example service redesign.

Health Boards / Special Health Boards / NHS National Services Scotland are required to publish and submit an annual report to Scottish Ministers on how they have carried out their duties in the Act, with the first report due by 30 April 2025. Scottish Ministers must then present these reports to Parliament with an accompanying statement detailing how the information will be used in designing policies for staffing of the health service.

However, results from the common staffing method are only one factor in providing information on workforce and service delivery and the Scottish Government continues to implement policies for workforce and service reform.

Overall nursing and midwifery staffing is at a record high, up by 17.8% since September 2006, by 10,100.4 WTE to 66,883.6 WTE. Since September 2006, qualified nurses and midwives have increased by 16.3%, by 6,698.7 WTE to 47,724.9 WTE. Initiatives on international recruitment provided around £18m in funding to Boards to recruit 1,250 international nurses, midwives and allied health professionals, with well over 1,000 already in post across Scotland so far and many more arriving in the coming weeks.

Controls were introduced by Boards from 1 April 2023 in order to gradually reduce the number of shifts being filled by nurse agency workers and from 1 June 2023 Boards were no longer using off-framework nurse agencies unless in exceptional circumstances. Boards have reported significant progress in reducing reliance on agency nursing staff as a result of these changes. Further controls were introduced from 1 April 2024, and Boards are no longer using agency workers to fill Health Care Support Worker (HCSW) / unregistered shifts.

The Nursing and Midwifery Taskforce (NMT) was announced in February 2023 at the request of staff side organisations, including the Royal College of Nursing and Royal College of Midwives to understand the challenges facing nurses and midwives across Scotland. The NMT continues to be a Ministerial priority and will recommend a workplan of actions which will seek to improve workplace culture, practice, flexibility, recruitment and retention, alongside the diversification of education and training pathways to support longer-term workforce sustainability. The NMT is making good progress with the development of its recommended actions and will continue to work until members have agreed a comprehensive action plan. We anticipate the publication of a report later in 2024.

Annex A

Types of health care, locations and employees subject to the common staffing method

Type of health care

Location

Employees

Adult inpatient provision

Hospital wards with 17 occupied beds or more on average

Registered nurses

Clinical nurse specialist provision

Hospitals

Community settings

Registered nurses who work as clinical nurse specialists

Community nursing provision

Community settings

Registered nurses

Community children’s nursing provision

Community settings

Registered nurses

Emergency care provision

Emergency departments in hospitals

Registered nurses

Medical practitioners

Maternity provision

Hospitals

Community settings

Registered midwives

Mental health and learning disability provision

Mental health units in hospitals

Learning disability units in hospitals

Registered nurses

Neonatal provision

Neonatal units in hospitals

Registered midwives

Registered nurses

Paediatric inpatient provision

Paediatric wards in hospitals

Registered nurses

Small ward provision

Hospital wards with 16 occupied beds or fewer on average

Registered nurses



Scottish Parliamentary Research (SPICe)
Post Office (Horizon System) Offences (Scotland) Bill
Friday 17th May 2024
The Post Office (Horizon System) Offences (Scotland) Bill seeks to respond to miscarriages of justice resulting from the use of tainted evidence obtained from the Post Office's Horizon IT system. It includes provisions which would quash relevant convictions.
View source webpage

Found: Commons Library briefings from earlier this year - one on the UK Bill10and the other on the management culture



Scottish Parliamentary Debates
Portfolio Question Time
55 speeches (26,765 words)
Thursday 16th May 2024 - Main Chamber
Mentions:
1: Choudhury, Foysol (Lab - Lothian) A 2022 national partnership for culture report found that 73 per cent of primary school teachers feel - Link to Speech
2: Gilruth, Jenny (SNP - Mid Fife and Glenrothes) Culture, and the role that it represents in the current curricular areas, will be part of that curriculum - Link to Speech

Portfolio Question Time
105 speeches (55,348 words)
Wednesday 15th May 2024 - Main Chamber
Mentions:
1: Ewing, Annabelle (SNP - Cowdenbeath) item of business is portfolio questions, and the first portfolio is constitution, external affairs and culture - Link to Speech
2: Robertson, Angus (SNP - Edinburgh Central) touring and performing throughout Scotland, supporting social inclusion and underlining the role of culture - Link to Speech
3: Boyack, Sarah (Lab - Lothian) In Edinburgh, our world-class culture sector is hanging by a thread. - Link to Speech
4: Robertson, Angus (SNP - Edinburgh Central) events, are still the responsibility of the cabinet secretary for culture—namely, me. - Link to Speech
5: Robertson, Angus (SNP - Edinburgh Central) It is not for culture secretaries to instruct how bits of culture funding that are disbursed through - Link to Speech

Teaching
46 speeches (70,333 words)
Wednesday 15th May 2024 - Main Chamber
Mentions:
1: Webber, Sue (Con - Lothian) We want to see a thriving extracurricular culture in our schools, as that will provide immeasurable benefits - Link to Speech

Police (Ethics, Conduct and Scrutiny) (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
221 speeches (126,539 words)
Wednesday 15th May 2024 - Committee
Mentions:
1: None HMICS tends to be very strategic, so it will look at culture, diversity and other organisational issues - Link to Speech

Circular Economy (Scotland) Bill: Stage 2
343 speeches (218,077 words)
Tuesday 14th May 2024 - Committee
Mentions:
1: Lennon, Monica (Lab - Central Scotland) place legislation that says that there must be access to such products, we create choice and start the culture - Link to Speech

Action to Tackle Climate Change
65 speeches (58,932 words)
Tuesday 14th May 2024 - Main Chamber
Mentions:
1: Golden, Maurice (Con - North East Scotland) Part of the reason for that, I believe, concerns my first point, which is that culture wars have broken - Link to Speech

Pension Age Disability Payment
84 speeches (52,810 words)
Thursday 9th May 2024 - Committee
Mentions:
1: None That self-entrenched stigma comes from the media and the culture that we sometimes have when we are talking - Link to Speech

National Strategy for Economic Transformation
151 speeches (70,163 words)
Thursday 9th May 2024 - Committee
Mentions:
1: None NSET talked about creating an entrepreneurial culture and mindset in the country, across all regions - Link to Speech

Decision on Taking Business in Private
1 speech (445 words)
Thursday 9th May 2024 - Committee
Mentions:
1: Adamson, Clare (SNP - Motherwell and Wishaw) Welcome to the 11th meeting in 2024 of the Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee - Link to Speech

Gender Identity Services for Children and Young People (Cass Review)
48 speeches (66,344 words)
Wednesday 8th May 2024 - Main Chamber
Mentions:
1: Harvie, Patrick (Green - Glasgow) we can, even if we are left alone in Scottish politics, to summon up the courage to oppose the toxic culture - Link to Speech

Business Motions
24 speeches (15,877 words)
Wednesday 8th May 2024 - Main Chamber
Mentions:
1: Johnstone, Alison (NPA - Lothian) 20242.00 pm Parliamentary Bureau Motions2.00 pm Portfolio Questions: Constitution, External Affairs and Culture - Link to Speech
2: Johnstone, Alison (NPA - Lothian) 20242.00 pm Parliamentary Bureau Motions2.00 pm Portfolio Questions: Constitution, External Affairs and Culture - Link to Speech

Disability Employment Gap
96 speeches (106,742 words)
Wednesday 8th May 2024 - Committee
Mentions:
1: None As well as the practical changes, culture change is really important. - Link to Speech
2: None It is about having conversations and having the right attitude and a culture in which they say, “Okay - Link to Speech
3: None There should be a culture in which people feel comfortable declaring and having conversations with their - Link to Speech

Scottish Languages Bill: Stage 1
247 speeches (163,641 words)
Wednesday 8th May 2024 - Committee
Mentions:
1: Thomson, Michelle (SNP - Falkirk East) To overlay your earlier comment about changing culture through creating an environment in which people - Link to Speech
2: None That is putting a bit of meat on the bones with regard to the curriculum for excellence and culture in - Link to Speech
3: None It is time to make curriculum for excellence better for Gaelic culture and for Scots, too. - Link to Speech

Police (Ethics, Conduct and Scrutiny) (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
252 speeches (130,406 words)
Wednesday 8th May 2024 - Committee
Mentions:
1: Mackay, Rona (SNP - Strathkelvin and Bearsden) I want to ask about the culture in Police Scotland. - Link to Speech
2: None The bill is a tool, but it needs to be part of a much bigger piece of work around changing culture. - Link to Speech
3: None The other part is culture. - Link to Speech
4: None All those things help to set the culture in the organisation. - Link to Speech
5: None That is the culture. - Link to Speech

Circular Economy (Scotland) Bill: Stage 2
253 speeches (163,577 words)
Tuesday 7th May 2024 - Committee
Mentions:
1: Lennon, Monica (Lab - Central Scotland) who often are the human rights defenders risking their lives day in, day out, to defend their land, culture - Link to Speech

Food Standards Scotland
91 speeches (71,931 words)
Tuesday 7th May 2024 - Committee
Mentions:
1: Gulhane, Sandesh (Con - Glasgow) I believe that meal replacement shakes are part of a diet culture. - Link to Speech

National Planning Framework 4 (Annual Review)
237 speeches (160,815 words)
Tuesday 7th May 2024 - Committee
Mentions:
1: None qualitative and quantitative stuff around what place outcomes you have, the quality of service and the culture - Link to Speech
2: None with not temporary homes being built but homes that become communities that are part of an established culture - Link to Speech