Louie French MP: written questions
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Gambling: Excise DutiesDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 19 May 2025AnsweredUIN 53228More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions she has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the proposed single Remote Betting and Gaming Duty.
Answer: The consultation on the tax treatment of remote gambling is a matter for HM Treasury. I would encourage all interested stakeholders to respond to this consultation, which runs until 21 July. The department continues to engage with His Majesty’s Treasury a...
Answered 28 May 2025
Original Parliament recordGamingDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 19 May 2025AnsweredUIN 53227More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what data her Department uses to assess policies for the land-based adult gaming sector.
Answer: DCMS regularly engages with Members of Parliament, local authorities, the gambling industry, and members of the public on issues such as adult gaming centres. The Government uses various data sources to assess policies and impacts, including data provided...
Answered 28 May 2025
Original Parliament recordGaming: Coastal AreasDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 19 May 2025AnsweredUIN 53226More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of adult gaming centres on seaside towns.
Answer: DCMS regularly engages with Members of Parliament, local authorities, the gambling industry, and members of the public on issues such as adult gaming centres. The Government uses various data sources to assess policies and impacts, including data provided...
Answered 28 May 2025
Original Parliament recordBingo and GamingDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 19 May 2025AnsweredUIN 53225More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of (a) adult gaming centres and (b) bingo clubs on communities.
Answer: DCMS regularly engages with Members of Parliament, local authorities, the gambling industry, and members of the public on issues such as adult gaming centres. The Government uses various data sources to assess policies and impacts, including data provided...
Answered 28 May 2025
Original Parliament recordBingo and GamingDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 19 May 2025AnsweredUIN 53224More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the potential contribution of (a) adult gaming centres and (b) bingo clubs to the economy.
Answer: DCMS regularly engages with Members of Parliament, local authorities, the gambling industry, and members of the public on issues such as adult gaming centres. The Government uses various data sources to assess policies and impacts, including data provided...
Answered 28 May 2025
Original Parliament recordBingo and GamingDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 19 May 2025AnsweredUIN 53223More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of customer protections in (a) adult gaming centres and (b) bingo clubs.
Answer: DCMS regularly engages with Members of Parliament, local authorities, the gambling industry, and members of the public on issues such as adult gaming centres. The Government uses various data sources to assess policies and impacts, including data provided...
Answered 28 May 2025
Original Parliament recordGamingDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 19 May 2025AnsweredUIN 53222More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what correspondence her Department has received from relevant stakeholders on customer protections in land-based adult gaming centres; and if she will publish that correspondence.
Answer: DCMS regularly engages with Members of Parliament, local authorities, the gambling industry, and members of the public on issues such as adult gaming centres. The Government uses various data sources to assess policies and impacts, including data provided...
Answered 28 May 2025
Original Parliament recordGamingDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 19 May 2025AnsweredUIN 53221More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what correspondence her Department has received from relevant stakeholders on the potential impact of land-based adult gaming centres on local economies; and if she will publish that corresponden
Answer: DCMS regularly engages with Members of Parliament, local authorities, the gambling industry, and members of the public on issues such as adult gaming centres. The Government uses various data sources to assess policies and impacts, including data provided...
Answered 28 May 2025
Original Parliament recordGambling: ResearchDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 2 May 2025AnsweredUIN 49971More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether she is taking steps to require UK Research and Innovation to commission gambling research under the statutory gambling levy from (a) non-academic and (b) applied research organisations.
Answer: The government’s priority is to ensure funding is directed where it is needed most to deliver our objective to further understand and reduce gambling-related harms. DCMS and HMT Ministers have powers to decide how funding is divided between three key stra...
Answered 14 May 2025
Original Parliament recordDepartment for Culture, Media and Sport: BuildingsDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 23 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 47367More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether her Department maintains a record of the time spent by each of her Department's Ministers in each of its offices.
Answer: The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) does not maintain a formal record of the time spent by DCMS Ministers in the department's offices. Ministers' diaries are managed by their individual Private Offices and while Private Office staff do hold...
Answered 1 May 2025
Original Parliament recordRugby: Government AssistanceDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 7 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 44620More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the Twentieth Report of the Committee of Public Accounts’ of Session 2024-25 on DCMS management of COVID-19 loans, HC 364, published on 2 April 2025, what steps her Department t
Answer: On appointment to the role in 2023, the Permanent Secretary declared her interests and these were recorded in the DCMS Annual Accounts. A conflict management plan was completed which deemed it appropriate that Accounting Officer responsibility for decisio...
Answered 25 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordVideo GamesDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 7 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 44619More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what recent discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for Business and Trade on the potential impact of the subscriptions regime in the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 20
Answer: My Department regularly engages with the Department for Business and Trade on a range of issues relating to the implementation of the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumer Act 2024.The Department for Business and Trade’s consultation on the implementa...
Answered 22 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordIndependent Football RegulatorTreasuryTabled 26 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41518More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 24 March 2025 to Question 39136 on the Independent Football Regulator, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of the Independent Football Regulator on the growth of the
Answer: The Department for Culture, Media and Sport are leading on setting up the Independent Football Regulator where they are looking to put in place a flexible and proportionate regime focused on ensuring the financial sustainability of the game, which will cr...
Answered 3 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordEngland and Wales Cricket Board: PlanningDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 25 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41116More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions she has had with the (a) Chancellor of the Exchequer on Government funding and (b) Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government on planning requirements for t
Answer: The Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport regularly engages with the Chancellor and Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government on a range of issues.The responsibility for planning requirements and permission lies with local...
Answered 10 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordDepartment for Culture, Media and Sport: OfficesDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 25 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41114More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many days each Minister has spent in her Department's Manchester office since 4 July 2024.
Answer: Ministers visit the DCMS office in Manchester as their diaries permit. Most recently, all four DCMS Ministers visited the Manchester office on 10 April.
Answered 11 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordPre-school Education: Employers' ContributionsDepartment for EducationTabled 21 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 40353More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what support her Department is providing to early years providers in the private sector to mitigate the impact of increases to employer National Insurance contributions.
Answer: It is the government’s ambition that all families have access to high quality, affordable and flexible early education and care, improving the life chances for every child and the work choices for every parent. That also means ensuring the sector is finan...
Answered 17 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordIndependent Football RegulatorTreasuryTabled 18 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39136More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent discussions she has had with the Shadow Football Regulator on the regulation of businesses.
Answer: The Chancellor of the Exchequer has not held any discussions with the Shadow Football Regulator.
Answered 24 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordFootball: TicketsDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 18 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39135More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of changes to football ticket prices on grassroots participation.
Answer: The matter of football ticket prices is a commercial decision for individual clubs and leagues to take. The Government has introduced legislation to establish an Independent Football Regulator to protect and promote the sustainability of English football ...
Answered 28 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordFootball: RegulationDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 18 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39134More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will publish the criteria used to appoint senior members of the (a) Shadow Football Regulator and (b) Independent Football Regulator.
Answer: All senior staff appointments to the Shadow Football Regulator have followed the Civil Service Commission Recruitment Principles and this will continue to be the case once the regulator is legally established; however, the criteria used for selection will...
Answered 24 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordExtracurricular Activities: FinanceDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 18 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39133More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 10 March 2025 to Question 33607 on Extracurricular Activities: Finance, what discussions she has had with the (a) Secretary of State for Education and (b) Chancellor of
Answer: The Secretary of State for Culture Media and Sport and the Minister for Sport, Media, Civil Society and Youth regularly meet with Ministerial counterparts from the Department for Education on a range of issues, including school sport.The School Games Orga...
Answered 24 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordCulture and Sports: LoansDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 18 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39132More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether her Department is restructuring loans issued under the (a) Culture Recovery Fund, (b) Sport Survival Package and (c) Rugby Football League Loan Scheme.
Answer: The Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) assesses any loan reprofiling requests on a case by case basis, working alongside our Loan Agents, who continuously monitor the financial performance of borrowers. Requests will be considered where borrowe...
Answered 27 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordGambling: RehabilitationDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 18 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39131More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate she has made of the number of problem gamblers not receiving treatment between the ending of the voluntary gambling levy period and the distribution of funds collected under the sta
Answer: It is a priority that in this crucial transition period, valuable support and treatment services for those experiencing gambling-related harm are protected. To ensure there is no disruption, operators must continue to provide financial contributions at th...
Answered 1 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordDepartment for Culture, Media and Sport: Freedom of ExpressionMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 18 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39130More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 10 March 2025 to Question 34945 on Freedom of Expression, if she will make an assessment of the compatibility of the Youth Parliament’s statement in its
Answer: The Government is clear that everyone has a fundamental right to freedom of speech. People are expected to express their views concerning respectfully including exercising the appropriate restraints within the confines of the law when providing criticism....
Answered 26 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordGambling: Mental Health ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 18 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39129More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 10 March to Question 34943 on Gambling: Health Services, what steps he is taking to ensure the new commissioning programme is in place before the end of the voluntary levy
Answer: It is a priority for the Government that in this crucial transition period, valuable support and treatment services for those experiencing gambling-related harm are protected. To minimise any disruption, operators must continue to provide financial contri...
Answered 25 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordCommunity Diagnostic Centres: FinanceDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 10 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 36806More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of changes to treatment tariffs on the ability of Community Diagnostic Centres to provide care.
Answer: As set out in the Plan for Change, we will ensure that 92% of patients return to waiting no longer than 18 weeks from Referral to Treatment by March 2029, a standard which has not been met consistently since September 2015.We have delivered an additional ...
Answered 17 Mar 2025
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