Live Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Questions House of Commons

Good morning. Welcome to the live

coverage of the House of Commons. In

an hour the Leader of the House of

Commons will announce the business

in the chamber for the first few

weeks of the New Year. Then she'll

take questions. That's not it from

her. She'll make a statement on the

new independence complaints

procedure for the Houses of

Parliament. That comes as MPs are

digesting the news of Damian Green's

sacking. That will be followed by a

minister calling on plan to cut

housing costs.

The first on Russian interference in

UK politics and a general debate

before the Christmas recess. Please

join me for a round up at 11pm.

First we have questions for the

Culture Secretary, Caroline Bradley

and her team of ministers. The first

question is from David Hansen, about

Channel 4's new location. There'll

be talk the National Lotte.

THE SPEAKER: Order! Order, the vice

Chamberlain of the household.

Her Majesty's answer, sir, in reply

to a loyal and something else

addressed to this House.

I have received your humble address

saying I should appoint Mr Lifford

to the independent community, for a

period of five years from effect

11th January, 2018. I will comply

with your request.

THE SPEAKER: Order, order! Questions

to the Secretary of State for

digital culture rks, media and

sport.

Happy Christmas. Question

one.

Mr Speaker, we have been clear

it is a public owned broadcaster

Channel 4 must reflect the country

as a whole. We are still in

discussions with Channel 4 about how

to do this, including through

relocating staff out of London and

we will set out next steps in due

course.

Will the Secretary of State

confirm that there is approximately

£600 million benefit to broadcasting

by moving Channel 4 out of London?

Will she confirm it is unacceptable

that only four of the 120

commissioners of programmes for

Channel 4 currently live outside of

London. It is an economic benefit,

whether it is Salford, which I

prefer, London, Birmingham,

Sheffield or Leeds, it should be

done now. .

I thought it would be a

bid for Wrexham. I am interested to

hear his views on other locations.

There are many different estimates

of the benefit. It is a clear

benefit to the country of Channel 4

relocating out of London. They are a

publically owned broadcaster. We

expect them to deliver public

benefits above and beyond commercial

benefits, that includes relocating

out of London.

While welcoming the reports that

Channel 4 will be employing more

people and investing more money

outside London, does my Right

Honourable friend agree that to send

the message that Channel 4 is an

alternative broadcasting serving

different audiences then its head

quarters should not be in SW1?

My

Right Honourable friend speaks with

great experience and knowledge on

this matter. The House does well to

listen to his wise words.

Would the minister agree that as

Channel 4 is not actually a

programme-making, but only a

commissioner, there limited benefit

in moving staff and it should be

programme making which reflects the

diversity of the country?

This is

one of the arguments which has been

put forward as the way that Channel

4's business model and how it

operates. We have seen from what

happened with the BBC moving to

Salford, albeit, I accept with a

different business model, but that

hub, that creativity, that

clustering of talent really has had

benefit. I think you only have to

look, one only has to look at the

analysis of the amount of

programming that is currently

commissioned outside London to see

that bases outside London could have

real significant benefits for the

independent production companies no

not in SW1.

Number two.

May I start by wishing you and

members of the whole of this House a

happy Christmas. Mr Speaker, we are

working Camelot and the Gambling

Commission to ensure returns to good

courses are as high as possible and

with lottery distributes to supto

have the link between playing the

lottery and good causes.

Merry

Christmas to everyone else. I thank

the minister for her answer.

Charities doing important work

across the country depend on the

money awarded by lottery

distributors. Due to the fall last

year and the expected fall next year

of lottery for good causes

distributors may not be able to meet

their commitments. The Government

has agreed to underwrite any

shortfall for UK Sport. Will the

minister do so for other funding

bodies?

Mr Speaker, we are working

with the Gambling Commission and

Camelot to review their strategy to

see, to ensure that we don't have a

continuous fall in lottery funding.

The National Lottery's raised over

£37 billion for good causes sipts it

was started in -- since it was

started in 1994. The honourable

gentleman's constituency has

recovered £35 million across lottery

grants. Every member in this House

has an interest to making sure that

it is assessed and may I encourage

everybody to go and buy a ticket.

Can I wish you and everyone else a

happy Christmas too. It is not only

the National Lottery that provides

invaluable funding, so too do

society lotteries. Last week we had

an excellent Westminster Hall debate

about society lotteries. It was very

clear there was cross-party support

for reform. So, will my honourable

friend commitment to looking at it

for reforms at the earliest possible

opportunity in the New Year?

Mr

Speaker, as my honourable friend

said, we had an excellent debate

last week in Westminster Hall and

the answer to the question then, as

the answer to the question now is,

yes.

Since my election in 2016 I

have held funding advice surgeries

twice a year to encourage charities

to gain lottery funding. One reason

was the big lottery told me there

are small numbers of small

applications from my seat. What more

can she do as the minister to try

and get the lottery into

constituencies like mine for

charities to access these funds and

help them with applications?

I think

that is an excellent idea. I

encourage the gentleman to write to

colleagues across the House to

explain how he set it up in his

constituency and how others can ben

frit from doing the same.

I would

like to wish you happy Christmas and

to the member who doesn't have any

Christmas spirit at the moment.

Does the minister agree with me that

National Lottery funding should also

be made available to smaller

charities that may help fewer people

N my constituency there are few

options for young people and older

people who are vulnerable. Including

one which helps teenagers another

which helps people with meantal

health issues and one which provides

furniture for those on low incomes

across East Sussex.

May I

congratulate her. Small charities

provide such huge benefit in their

locations. We celebrated the work of

small charities last Friday with

local charities day. We will

continue to do all we can to support

small charities in the future.

Can

the minister further outline if she

intends to see a more slimline

approach which would allow more

funding to charities? How would she

envisage a scheme taking place?

We

look at the issues around

administration all the time. I am

sure it will be a key part as we

take forward next licence

discussion.

Mr Speaker, I would like

to announce to the House that the

Commonwealth Games have just been

awarded to Birmingham. And as you

know, sport is a, the lottery

supports sport, a vital support for

sport, which is why it is so

disturbing that this week the

National Audit Office published a

report that says since 2009, income

for good causes for the lottery has

risen just 2%. Shareholder profits

of Camelot have risen by 122%. Does

the minister think those ratios seem

fair? Is grass root sport and the

Commonwealth Games going to be

secure for lottery funding in the

future?

The cheek of the honourable

gentleman! We did all the work on

the Commonwealth Games. It was

announced formally at 9. 30am this

morning in Birmingham. I was pleased

to sign the host city contract. I am

pleased we will be holding the

Commonwealth in 2022. The honourable

gentleman's constituency will

benefit from the Commonwealth Games

2022, as we all do. To go to the

substance of the honourable

gentleman's question, the Secretary

of State and myself are not

unsympathetic to the points that he

made.

Number three, Mr Speaker.

Libraries play an important role in

giving everyone opportunities to

improve their life changes and

achief their full potential. That is

why the Government has established

the library's task fund to deliver

in that goal.

I thank the minister.

The minister will know how important

libraries are for social mobility in

Plymouth. The City Council in

Plymouth have closed two libraries.

-- six libraries. Two in mine and

four the minister stood in. Can he

tell library users in Plymouth

there'll be no more library closures

in the New Year?

Plymouth City

Council receive £56,000 for cultural

learning activities last summer,

which saw thousands of young people,

5,000 visits and 5,000 healthy

lunches to young people, including a

collaboration with the theatre royal

and the national marine aquarium,

which represents the grown-up

thinking around the way that

Libraries Act and live in our

constituencies across the country.

The Speaker: Order! I congratulate

the honourable member for Kettering

on his tie which is as as my own.

Would he see how a countywide

libraries trust might be setup to

save these vital public services?

The honourable gentleman makes a

reasonable point. I will be visiting

a number of libraries in the New

Year, with the new chair of the

library 's task force and I would be

happy to engage with him and his

local authority to see if there are

alternative ways forward.

Ebenezer

Scrooge would recognise exactly the

mood in this country at the moment,

with libraries closing, children not

able to go there to do their

homework or access computers. What

kind of Britain is it when we think

of Dickens and Scrooge at this time

of year?

I think that's an

unfortunate characterisation of the

work of thousands of librarians and

volunteers who worked so hard.

Libraries are working hard to

deliver literacy, digital skills,

support for career and business

decisions and it's unfortunate the

honourable gentleman takes such a

downbeat view at this time of year.

I'm just very sorry haven't spotted

my tie, it hasn't caught your eye as

much as my honourable friend's but I

will try harder next year. Does the

honourable member agree all

libraries can play a part and it's

not just the traditional library,

there is a jigsaw library as well,

I've even heard my surgery in my

local library.

I think the

honourable member's tie is

fantastic. I'm happy to pay tribute

to his local library. Dorset is no

exception.

My tie is very plain. I

can announce over 100 libraries

closed last year in this country and

libraries are genuine engines of

social mobility. Why is the

Government content with that

situation, because the Minister

seems to be content with that? And

does he agree with the editor of

public library news who said

recently the example of other

countries show this is a man-made

disaster brought on by short-sighted

but long-term cuts. He's right,

isn't he, and Merry Christmas.

Merry

Christmas to you, and to you, Mr

Speaker. The reality is different

library services tackle the

provision they deliver for their

local communities in different ways.

There are clearly challenges in the

library sector and I'm working hard

with the libraries task force, with

the librarians across the country to

look at ways of delivering better

services and I will continue to do

that and I think in many communities

we are seeing more volunteers

enthusiastically engaging with

library provision to deliver better

services all the time.

Merry

Christmas to you, Mr Speaker, and

happy Christmas to friends across

the House. In the past we've decided

to deliver broadband in Scotland

through the Scottish Government. We

provided additional funding in

February 2014 to support further

roll-out but the Scottish Government

has only just begun the procurement

process using this funding and is

not expected to have an agreed

contract until the end of next year,

over three years behind Wales,

England and Northern Ireland. So in

the future the Government will

implement the new 5G programme

directly with local authorities to

ensure efficient delivery.

Can I

thank the Minister for his response

and for his recent visit to my

constituency in sterling. And given

the Ofcom report which describes the

situation he's just summarised in

relation to the fact the Scottish

Government haven't even started the

second phase of delivery, will the

Minister confirm that his department

will work directly with local

councils in Scotland to implement

future phases of broadband roll-out?

Yes, I will.

Government ministers

own backbenchers have already agreed

the roll-out of broadband was

flawed. Is it not time he worked

with the Scottish Government instead

of trying to bypass the Scottish

Government?

We have tried to work

with the Scottish Government the

years but when discussing this with

the First Minister, when she first

took my hand on a cold Christmas Eve

she promised me broadband was

waiting for me, well it is nearly

three years later and we are still

waiting for the Government to get on

with it.

My constituents on the

southern side of the border, which

is just a line on a map, those in

north Northumberland are still

struggling, can we commit that in

2018 we will see real progress

there?

Yes, what matters is getting

the roll-out of superfast broadband

to everybody across the country, no

matter where the administrative

boundaries are. What matters is

getting broadband connections to

people.

In the season of goodwill,

will be ministers join me in

congratulating the Scottish

Government following last week's

announcements that they are to

invest £600 million on rolling out

30 megabits superfast broadband

across Scotland with the priority

given to rural Scotland and thereby

making Scotland a truly world-class

digital nation by 2021?

I am delighted that finally three

and a half years after being granted

that money, they have got on with

the start of the procurements, but

it will take now another year for

this second phase of the roll-out to

get going so he will understand, and

more importantly his constituents

will understand, why we have grown

tired of waiting for the Scottish

Government and we are getting on

with delivering directly through

local councils in Scotland in

future.

Local authorities have a

duty to provide a comprehensive and

efficient service that meets local

needs within the available resources

and the Government fully recognises

the importance and significance of

public libraries for local

communities.

My own local authority,

Labour run council, recognises their

importance to the communities. They

are more than books, they are

information, advice and support

centres. I hold surgeries there as

well as the Citizens Advice Bureau,

so what will he do to ensure its

sustainability?

I was delighted to

see the Manchester combined

authority including Rochdale

received funding and I will continue

to work with the libraries task

force to extend best practices to

look different models of delivering

services to make sure libraries

continue to thrive like in Rochdale.

Superfast broadband is available to

over 94% of homes and businesses in

the UK. We are confident this will

reach 95% by the end of the year,

over 4.6 million additional homes

and businesses have superfast

broadband available for the first

time thanks to the Government's

programme.

When it comes to

broadband in rural Lincolnshire,

their recent match season of

goodwill. The fact is even 150 years

ago the Post Office could roll out

universal service no matter where

you live. There are many rural areas

in Lincolnshire where the broadband

is appalling and people are trying

to do business in these villages so

will the Minister get his skates on

and get BT to roll out broadband to

these villages?

I have got some

Christmas cheer for those people in

Lincolnshire who want better

broadband because yesterday we

announced we are taking forward the

legal guarantee for broadband,

decent high-speed broadband, and

under the universal service

obligation, and all I can say on

this, Mr Speaker, is all I want for

Christmas is USL.

Very well done!

I'm not sure how to follow that. A

number of villages in my

constituency suffering from the

similar point that has been made,

could the Minister outlining the

work they are doing to try to

improve it?

The USO foot broadband

will be UK wide so wherever you live

you have a legal right to high-speed

broadband by 2020.

He makes it sound

very exciting. I obviously haven't

lived.

Will be welcomed me... Will

the Government push for more

accurate speeds to be published?

I

strongly agree with the honourable

member that the promises made on

broadband need to be the promises of

what people actually get in the end

of these misleading up to speed is

something that cannot happen a

moment too soon.

Constituents of

mine in parts of the constituency

like Clevedon are getting Paul

broadband services at the moment,

have they really got to wait until

2020? -- poor broadband.

I'd like it

to be in place but are not willing

to commit to that because this area

has been bedevilled by people

overpromising and under delivering

in the past so if we can go faster

we will, but we will have it in

place by 2020.

We are committed to

cracking down on unacceptable

behaviour in the ticketing market

and improving fans' chances of

buying tickets at a reasonable

price. We are strengthening the

consumer rights act and intend to

introduce a new criminal offence

using software to buy more tickets

than allowed.

There are too many of

my constituents who will not be

getting the tickets they hoped for

this Christmas as a result of mass

harvesting by electronic spots. Can

she confirm when this new offence

will be brought in? -- bots.

I

sympathise, especially at Christmas

in particular when friends and

family are looking to buy tickets

for events. That is why we

introduced the offence in the

digital economy act and we are

committed to bringing those changes

as quickly as possible, with

secondary legislation in the spring.

From Christmas goose to online

ticket sales and fewer than 24

hours.

It's no good the Secretary of

State coming here and wringing her

hands. The Government have plenty of

opportunity to put the restrictions

in place to prevent the resale of

these tickets online. The Government

was warned about this and failed to

act. It is small when -- small

wonder since it had one of these

ticket touts on its board giving

advice.

I'm slightly confused, we

changed the law, we did something,

we have acted on this and will be

bringing forward secondary

legislation in the spring.

The

Secretary of State for Communities

and Local Government made a

statement of a house on Monday which

set out latest position in relation

to the £26 million raised in

charitable forms of which £21

million has now been distributed to

survivors and next of kin. --

charitable funds.

Can she explain

the criteria being used for

distributing this much needed money

to the victims and survivors? And

also whether there's any

restrictions on the use of it by the

survivors when they receive it?

And

will write to the honourable

gentleman with specific details

around the criteria, but of the £6

million still to be distributed, 2

million is being looked after by

charities for eligible individuals

whose claims have not yet been

submitted and the remaining money

will be allocated to longer term

support that will benefit the wider

community.

Question Number Ten, and

Merry Christmas all.

That warms my

heart, thank you.

Charities and voluntary

organisations receive funding

including Libor, youth organisations

and funds in partnership with the

Big Lottery Fund.

Charities are set to lose a massive

£250 million a year in EU funding.

The Government appear to have no

plans to replace it. Will the

minister give some Christmas cheer

and ensure no charity loses out post

Brexit?

I have discussed how we can

look at the EU funding the gentleman

refers to and what we focus into.

Those discussions have been taking

place for some time now. We are

working with organisations,

including voluntary sector about how

to set up the framework for that.

Thank you, Mr Speaker. The

Government promised to repay the

remaining £425 million from the

lottery lottery to build the

National Stadium. At the current

rate they will not pay it back for

30 years. Charities are struggling

to house the homeless this year and

they need that money now. Will the

minister spread more Christmas

cheer, back the big lottery refund

campaign and commit to repay the

money they owe during this

Parliament?

We are committed to

repaying the funds the honourable

gentleman refers to. I can say to

the honourable gentleman we are

working very hard to ensure our

charities across all sectors are

well funded. He will be aware we

will launch a civil strategy which

will work across all across

Parliament that the sector is well

funded to get it to the heart of the

social issues we face in this

country. We are looking shortly

about what we'll do with the next

tranche of dormant assets which will

go to support many good causes which

he prefers to.

THE SPEAKER: Mrs Pauline Latham.

I

am delighted to be able to confirm

again to the House that the

Commonwealth Games Federation has

announced the 2022 games have been

awarded to Birmingham. Our

commitments now commence to the

fact, and I am sure the games will

demonstrate the best of Britain and

Birmingham to the world. Can I add

my congratulations, to the mayor and

the Sports Minister, who has done an

incredible amount of work with her

team to make sure we have secured

this important event for Birmingham.

Even better, thanks to our

announcement yesterday, that people

have a legal right to demand high

speed Internet in their home by

2020, more people will be able to

enjoy it across the country. On the

subject of sporting successes, I

would like to congratulation sir Mo

Farah on being named the Sports

Personality of the Year and the

England women's correct team. Mr

Speaker, I have spent many sessions

telling honourable members I can not

comment on the UK City of Culture

bids, given one my Milo eal city. It

is a mess slur to be allowed to talk

about it. I am told it is not stock

on Trent, but I my commiserations go

to the unsuccessful cities. I would

like to wish all in the House a very

merry Christmas and take an

opportunity to thank all the

charities working so hard over

Christmas and throughout the year

for all they do.

THE SPEAKER: I think the BBC

oversees Sports Personality of the

Year - it is the insurpassable Roger

Federer, my all-time sporting hero.

Thank you. Can I take this

opportunity to wish you and the

whole House, including all the

members of staff here, a very merry

Christmas and a happy New Year. I

would encourage people to visit

places in my constituency like the

Derwent Valley World Heritage Site.

We are working towards a cycle way

at the Derwent Valley to encourage

international visitors to the area.

Would my Right Honourable friend

agree that visitors would have an

amazing visit if they came to the

Derwent Valley and other parts

rather than staying just in London?

Mr Speaker, I have to agree with the

honourable lady. I know the part of

the world very well, as you can

imagine. I agree the way the use of

cycling to get people to see these

incredible parts of our country,

scenery, the innecessary co-World

Heritage Sites and others. I have to

-- the Inecsco World Heritage Sites.

You can also enjoy it is

Staffordshire.

Thank you very much. Merry Christmas

to yourself and one and all, in

particular my opposite number, the

honourable minister for sport, for

whom it is a pleasure to serve op.

It is

-- opposite.

The Gambling Commission's annual

report confirm children as young as

11 are being introduced to forms of

on-line gamenning. The gambling act

was formed before they could trade

in boxes. There's nothing to stop a

child gambling money for virtual

gambling games. When will the

minister close this loophole and put

an end to this gambling?

Thank you

very much. My I extend my Christmas

wishes to the honourable lady and to

all those on the front bench. Mr

Speaker, the honourable lady has an

important point. And the recent

report was a very good document. We

are protecting young people and

children from the harm of gambling

and the risk. We are working the

Gambling Commission. They keep this

matter very much under review t. It

is an emerging issue. It is

something new. The Gambling

Commission has strong powers to

regulate gambling. It is something

which is being looked at very

closely.

The opening oh in Abu Dhabi, we all

know the glories of France are as

nothing compared to the glories of

our own country. What can the

Secretary of State do to advance

British cultural diplomacy around

the world? Might one aspect be our

cultural fund?

The cultural

development and the cultural

protection fund are both top of my

list. And the cultural protection

fund has done an enormous amount

internationally. I would draw his

attention to the highly successful

diplomacy, including the V&A opening

a new centre in China, earlier this

month, as one of the examples of the

advances we have made.

Thank you.

This week, the German competition

authority ruled that the collection

and use of data by Facebook was

abrew sieve. Does the -- was

abusive, does the minister agree?

She wouldn't expect the Government

to express a definitive view one way

or the other. The question she

raises is a very interesting one.

Is my Right Honourable friend aware

that estimates show something like

over one million people will be

watching their festive TV and films

using illegal streaming devices?

Does she agree this does huge damage

to our creative industries? Will she

look at what more can be done to

tackle this?

My Right Honourable

friend speaks with great knowledge

and experience. One very wise man in

the chamber. His points are very

well made. We want to make sure

contents is protected. Those who

provide content are able to make the

money they should rightly make from

that. It is part of the world we are

doing with the creative industries

as parented of the industrial sector

work on the deal to how to protect

content in the most effective way.

Thank you, Mr Speaker. I am sure the

minister will agree one of the vital

aspects of creating a thriving and

exciting community for all parts of

the UK safeguarding our national

built heritage. I think it is clear

that as we come out of the European

Union, the funding available to

projects like in Glasgow, where I am

a member of the preservation trust

and am involved in the renovation

and the other projects, these

projects could be threatened by the

funding not being available for safe

garlding these projects K the

minister guarantee any money

available will be safeguarding as

the European Union funding is no

longer available?

THE SPEAKER: As a general piece of

advice to the House, the best way to

cope with the additional cope

pressure in topical pressures is not

to blurt out the same number of

words at a more frenetic pace, but

to blurt out fewer words!

Minister...

I can assure the

honourable member that all my

colleagues in the department are

working very hard to make sure that

all funding is protected as far as

possible going forward beyond the

changes following Brexit.

Thank you Mr Speaker, as the

Secretary of State is aware Dundee

City put together a transformative

bid to be the European City of

Culture. I want to see Dundee and

other cities have their chance to

taste their bids. Can I urge my

Right Honourable friend to find a

way to take this contest forward so

all that time, money and vision for

Dundee is not put to waste?

Mr

Speaker, my honourable friend has

been an absolute stalwart in

campaigning for Dundee before the

very, very disappointing

announcement by the European

Commission but since to make sure we

can find a way to recognise the work

which has been done. Dundee should

be congratulated. They bid for City

of Culture 2016, when Hull was given

the award. Since then that same team

has worked together, building up

that water front with the new V&A

coming next year. We are working a

way through this. But I would

commend my honourable friend once

again for the incredible work she's

done.

Thank you. The Prime Minister

herself referred to allegations of

police misconduct in her core

response dense with the Secretary of

State last night. Isn't it high time

that the Secretary of State

commenced unfinished business and

honoured the promise of a previous

Conservative Prime Minister to set

Lveson two under way?

We did

consult. We will release the

responses to that in due course. We

are currently having conversations

with all involved to make sure we do

the proper process that is required

before we can release those figures.

Thank you. I declare an interest as

a member of the all party radio

group. Can the minister update the

House on the de-regulation plans

this week - commercial radio have

long struggled with out-dated, old

fashioned restrictions, meaning this

industry has been fairly, unfairly

treated and restricted?

Yes, this

week, we published the response to

the consultation which was

incredibly warmly received, on

making sure we remove over 100

clauses of very outdated legislation

on commercial radio. And free up

commercial radio stations to support

their communities and to deliver for

their audiences in the best way they

see fit.

Thank you Mr Speaker. On the

minister's current consultation on

reducing the maximum stake on

fixed-term betting terminals, will

she place in the library the fiscal

impact of each of the four options

being consulted on?

Mr Speaker, also

already in the library the impact

assessments that we published

alongside the Government

consultation. We published on the

31st October. And so I hope that

would answer the question that he

posed.

Theress dents of West

Oxfordshire welcomed the broadband

roll out. Will the minister press

for real progress in broadband and

mobile signals, which many villages

suffer, including my own?

Tell me

about it! Completely. He's spot on.

I pay tribute this Christmas time to

his personal leadership in

delivering better connectivity

across West Oxfordshire.

Members

across the House may enjoy many

festive films oh over the festive

period. Plans for a new film studio

in my constituency are under way.

Can I ask Hertha post Brexit she

does everything possible to ensure

this studio and creative cities

across the UK flourish?

Mr Speaker,

I agree with her, the creative

industries are a real UK success

story, growing much faster than the

rest of the economy and making up a

significant proportion of our

economic value and our power the

world. We have brilliant film

industry here in the UK, inclouding

and I would urge all -- including

and I would urge all members to see

Paddington II and Star Wars this

Christmas, as they are British,

British-made films. But I also

welcome the initiative in her

constituency and can assure we are

working closer with the creative

industries to make sure they are on

the same secure footing post Brexit

as they are today.

Thank you, Mr Speaker. As we are

focussing on Paddington II, I should

announce an interest as we are going

later this weekend, but please don't

tell my son! May I just say that

Paddington I, which rewatched on

catch up the day before is

problematic. We in some parts of

Kent appear to have a hem p line

that connects tows the rest of the

internet.

I'm pretty sure the honourable

gentleman's son doesn't watch

Parliament on TV so his secret is

safe. We need to get decent

connectivity everywhere, that is why

we are bringing in the universal

service obligation, to make sure

decent broadband can be available to

everybody for fulfilling our

manifesto commitment and delivering

this before 2020.

Last week the

gambling commission report

highlighted a 2% of young people

aged 11 - 16 have seen gambling on

television, 70% on social media.

Does the Minister agree with me that

more action must be taken to educate

young people on the risk of gambling

which could help them avoid gambling

harm later in life.

The quick answer

is yes, Gamble aware world leader

responsible advertising campaign.

Can I say our flamboyant scarves

have as much place in the chamber as

flamboyant ties. I congratulate the

Minister she putting for securing

the stakes and prizes review but can

I ask they make strong

representation to the Treasury about

the associated consequences of

problem gambling? Mental health

benefits, anti-social behaviour cost

the public purse over 1.2 billion

annually and a reduction will help

not only the individual but society

in general.

We regularly make strong

representation to the Treasury on a

number of issues, of which gambling

is one of those issues. The gambling

consultation is alive document at

the moment. The police encourage

people to take part in the

consultation and put their

representations in but we are aware

of the reports that have come out

recently that show the issue of

problem gambling and the impact on

society and the cost of that impact.

I refer the House to my register of

members interests. Seeing as we are

not allowed to talk about what is in

the Brexit analyses, will he comment

on what is not in it in relation to

the creative industries?

Mr Speaker,

I don't think there is anything that

is not in there. The creative

industries work with us, a sectorial

analysis that set out the analysis

we have made, as government working

with the industry and I'm sorry to

disappoint her at Christmas time if

she feels she's missing something.