Melanie Ward MP: written questions

4 Jul 2024–3 Jul 2025

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Written questions

Dormant Assets Scheme: ScotlandDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 11 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30911More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much money released by the Dormant Assets scheme has been allocated to Scotland in each year since the scheme began.
Answer: To date, the Dormant Assets Scheme has unlocked over £1 billion for good causes across the UK. The National Lottery Community Fund distributes all funding between the four nations in the UK. This is done in accordance with the Distribution of Dormant Acco...
Answered 19 Feb 2025
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Dormant Assets SchemeDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 11 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30909More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much money has been released through the Dormant Assets scheme in each year since it began.
Answer: The Dormant Assets Scheme has unlocked over £1 billion of dormant assets for good causes. The National Lottery Community Fund distributes all funding between the four nations in the UK. This is done in accordance with the Distribution of Dormant Account M...
Answered 19 Feb 2025
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Local Broadcasting: RadioDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 21 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25528More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to help ensure that all communities have access to local radio stations.
Answer: There are a wide range of local commercial and community radio services across the UK operating on analogue (FM/AM) and on digital radio. In addition, there are increasing numbers of commercial and community radio stations which are digital-only and have ...
Answered 28 Jan 2025
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Local Broadcasting: RadioDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 17 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24767More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to support community radio.
Answer: In December 2024, the Community Radio Order 2025 was laid in draft in Parliament. It enables Ofcom to extend community radio licences for a fourth time and to remove restrictions that limit the amount of income a community radio licence can receive from a...
Answered 24 Jan 2025
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Cabinet Office	1
Department for Business and Trade	2
Department for Culture, Media and Sport	4
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero	4
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology	2
Department for Transport	3
Department for Work and Pensions	7
Department of Health and Social Care	8
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office	9
Home Office	6
Ministry of Defence	2
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government	6
Ministry of Justice	2
Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission	1
Treasury	2

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