The below Parliamentary question was asked by Liz Saville Roberts on 2016-10-19.
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, who will be appointed to lead the S4C review.
Matt Hancock
The Government committed to a comprehensive review of S4C in 2017 covering remit, funding and governance. Further details including the Terms of Reference, timetable and process will be announced in due course.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Gregory Campbell on 2016-01-12.
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what change there has been in the number of black and white television licences held in Northern Ireland between 1 January 2012 and 1 January 2015.
Mr Edward Vaizey
According to TV Licensing, between 1 January 2012 and 1 January 2015, the number of black and white licences in Northern Ireland decreased by 404 licences, from 1,140 to 736.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tim Loughton on 2016-02-04.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, by what method his Department assesses the financial returns of the National Citizenship Service; and if he will make a statement.
Mr Rob Wilson
National Citizen Service (NCS) Trust receives an annual grant from Cabinet Office. In line with National Audit Office recommendations, the NCS Trust delivers an Annual Reconciliation Statement setting out how funds have been spent. The Cabinet Office publishes details of NCS funding in its Annual Report and the programme is independently evaluated to assess impact and value for money.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Derek Twigg on 2016-03-02.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many vehicles late licensing penalties have been issued in each year since 2010.
Andrew Jones
The table below shows the number of late licensing penalties that have been issued in each calendar year since 2010:
|
Year |
Number of late licensing penalties issued |
|
2010 |
665,258 |
|
2011 |
514,106 |
|
2012 |
568,224 |
|
2013 |
575,032 |
|
2014 |
478,133 |
|
2015 |
480,790 |
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Dawn Butler on 2016-04-08.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, pursuant to the oral contribution by the Minister for Small Business, Industry and Enterprise on 28 October 2015, Official Report, column 476, if his Department will extend the remit of the Lord Davies review of diversity on boards to include ethnicity.
Anna Soubry
To complement the work on Women on Boards, Sir John Parker has established a business led diversity initiative to end mono-cultural boards in the FTSE 100 boards by 2020.
The Government has also asked Baroness McGregor-Smith to undertake a review examining the issues faced by business in developing BME talent from recruitment through to the executive level. She will be reporting findings by the end of 2016.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Nicholas Soames on 2016-05-03.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what support his Department provides to air cadet units in West Sussex to participate in (a) gliding and (b) other flying activities.
Mr Julian Brazier
We are strongly committed to gliding and flying in the Air Cadet Organisation. Our immediate priority is to get cadets back flying again, after a gap of about two years. That will start again this year, and should be fully delivered by 2018.
The cadets of West Sussex glide with 615 Volunteer Gliding Squadron (VGS) at RAF Kenley and this will continue. This VGS is being expanded as a regional hub, with a project under way to deliver a new operations and accommodation block.
They will also continue to undertake Tutor Air Experience Flights with 6 Air Experience Flight based at RAF Benson.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Nic Dakin on 2016-06-15.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 6 June 2016 to Question 38401, whether she plans to publish her response to the School Teachers’ Review Body report on teachers’ pay from September 2016 and the draft 2016 School Teachers’ Pay and Conditions document for consultation and information before 14 July 2016.
Nick Gibb
We will continue to consider carefully the report from the School Teachers’ Review Body and its recommendations. We will publish the report, together with our response and a draft revised School Teachers’ Pay and Conditions Document, as soon as we have completed our consideration of it.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Helen Goodman on 2016-09-12.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what discussions she has had with her Cabinet colleagues on preventing self-employed adults with violent or sexual convictions providing extracurricular classes or sessions to children where there is no governing body for that sport or activity.
Edward Timpson
Schools are aware of their responsibilities in ensuring that any self-employed individual who is providing extra-curricular classes or sessions on their behalf has been subject to the necessary and appropriate checks, which could include checking individual status with the relevant sports or activity governing body.
If those checks reveal convictions for violence the school will then determine the appropriateness or otherwise of allowing that individual to continue to provide classes or sessions.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Andrew Gwynne on 2016-10-19.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what funding her Department has allocated to the Troubled Families Programme for (a) 2016-17, (b) 2017-18 and (c) 2018-19.
Nick Gibb
The Department for Education has not allocated any funding to the Troubled Families programme for 2016-17, 2017-18 and 2018-19.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Chadlington on 2016-01-18.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government why the Broadcast Committee of Advertising Practice exempts sports betting around televised sporting events from the 9pm television watershed.
Baroness Neville-Rolfe
Televised gambling advertising in the UK is governed by the Advertising Codes which are maintained by the Broadcast Committee for Advertising Practice. This is supplemented by a self-regulatory industry code, the Industry Code for Socially Responsible Gambling. An enhanced version of the industry code will come into effect in February 2016. New measures include a commitment that gambling operators will no longer advertise sign-up offers on television before 9pm.