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Written questions

Chris Bryant

663 written questions tabled, most recent first.

6 Feb 2015 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the Office for National Statistics' report, Measuring national well-being - An Analysis of Social Capital in the UK; and what r

6 Feb 2015 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Culture: Mental Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps his Department has taken to tackle the problem of loneliness by encouraging people to participate in culture and sports.

6 Feb 2015 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether the Government plans to accede to the Hague Commission on Protection of Cultural Property in Time of War before 7 May 2015.

6 Feb 2015 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Mobile Phones

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to his Department's press release of 18 December 2014, entitled Government secures landmark deal for UK mobile phone users, if he will publish the text of the Government's agreemen

6 Feb 2015 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Telecommunications

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to his Department's impact assessment of the reform of the Electronic Communications Code, published on 16 January 2015, for what reason the Government did not publish that assessm

5 Feb 2015 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Broadband: Rural Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether he plans to issue a response to the National Audit Office update of 28 January 2015 on rural broadband.

5 Feb 2015 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Broadband

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to his Department's webpage entitled Broadband Delivery UK, by what specific dates he plans to provide basic broadband (2 Mbs) for all in 2016, provide superfast broadband (24 Mbs)

5 Feb 2015 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Broadband: Rural Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions his Department has had with the National Audit Office on implementing the recommendations of the Public Accounts Committee and the National Audit Office on rural broadband.

5 Feb 2015 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Broadband: Rural Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether the Black Country and South Yorkshire Project Areas have been signed to non-disclosure agreements regarding BT's costs on Phase II of the rural broadband project.

5 Feb 2015 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Broadband: Rural Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the Fiftieth Report of Session 2013-14 from the Committee of Public Accounts, the rural broadband programme, HC 834, what steps he has taken to ensure that BT's bid prices for P

5 Feb 2015 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Broadband: Rural Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment he has made of the effect of the first two phases of the rural broadband project on BT's position on the wholesale access market.

5 Feb 2015 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Broadband: Rural Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the Fiftieth Report of Session 2013-14 from the Committee of Public Accounts, the rural broadband programme, HC 834, what work his Department has done with local authorities to

5 Feb 2015 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Public Appointments

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what role he has in appointing people to the Trustee and Executive Boards of the (a) BBC Trust and (b) Imperial War Museum; what appointments to those Boards are outstanding; and what representat

5 Feb 2015 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Public Appointments

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, for which organisations he has a role in deciding appointments to Trustee and Executive boards; which such organisations currently do not have full boards; which appointments to such boards are o

5 Feb 2015 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Public Service Broadcasting

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what plans his Department has to set a value for retransmission of public service broadcast channels on pay TV platforms in the UK.

3 Feb 2015 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Mobile Phones

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment he has made of the economic and social benefits arising from increasing the number of mobile network operators in areas where fewer than three operators provide services.

3 Feb 2015 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Mobile Phones

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to his Department's announcement, Government secures landmark deal for UK mobile phone users, published on 18 December 2014, what estimate he has made of changes in annual licence

3 Feb 2015 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Mobile Phones

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what contribution to the public purse is budgeted to be received from annual licence fees paid by mobile network operators in each of the next three financial years.

3 Feb 2015 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Mobile Phones

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what definition of market failure he used in assessing the deal with the mobile network operators and the necessity of accepting a reduction in the planned increase in annual licence fees.

3 Feb 2015 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Telecommunications

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, from which organisations he has received representations on reform of the Electronic Communications Code in 2015; and if he will publish those representations.

3 Feb 2015 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Telecommunications

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many full-time equivalent staff in his Department have been engaged in drafting amendments to the Electronic Communications Code.

3 Feb 2015 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Telecommunications

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether overtime payments relating to work carried out between 19 December 2014 and 2 January 2015 were made to officials advising on, or drafting revisions of, the Electronic Communications Code

3 Feb 2015 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Nuisance Calls and Texts Task Force

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what proportion of the members of the nuisance calls taskforce were black and minority ethnic; and whether any members of that task force had previously been employed by Vodafone, O2, Three or EE

3 Feb 2015 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Public Libraries: WiFi

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate he has made of when free WiFi will be provided in all public libraries; how many and what proportion of libraries currently have free WiFi; and what information he holds on the aver

3 Feb 2015 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

ICT: Greater London

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment he has made of the consequences for his policies of the report London Futures: Agiletown, published by Deloitte in November 2014.

3 Feb 2015 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Broadband: Urban Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what recent discussions he has had with which interlocutors in the European Commission on subsidising urban broadband; whether he has sought legal advice; and what estimate he has made of the cos

3 Feb 2015 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Telford

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much and what proportion of the cost of his visit to Telford on 12 December 2014 was paid out of public funds.

3 Feb 2015 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

ICT: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what recent estimate he has made of the number of people employed in the IT workforce (a) now and (b) in 2022.

3 Feb 2015 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Small Businesses: Broadband

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment he has made of upload speeds needed by small and medium-sized enterprises in (a) the creative and digital and (b) other sectors.

3 Feb 2015 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Public Expenditure

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate he has made of the level of his Department's budget from 2015-16 to 2019-20.

Source: official written-questions record.