Saqib Bhatti MP: written questions
4 Jul 2024–3 Jul 2025
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Written questions
Fundraising: InternetDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 30 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 49463More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will bring forward legislative proposals to ensure that tipping sliders on online fundraising platforms can be dragged to zero.
Answer: Fundraising platforms are commercial organisations that provide an important service to charities and donors. Most platforms are registered with the Fundraising Regulator, which is the independent, non-statutory regulator of charitable fundraising in Engl...
Answered 12 May 2025
Original Parliament recordFundraising: InternetDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 30 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 49462More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether she has made an assessment of the potential implications for her Department's policies of the use of tipping sliders by online fundraising platforms.
Answer: Fundraising platforms are commercial organisations that provide an important service to charities and donors. Most platforms are registered with the Fundraising Regulator, which is the independent, non-statutory regulator of charitable fundraising in Engl...
Answered 12 May 2025
Original Parliament recordFundraising: InternetDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 30 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 49461More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions she has had with the Fundraising Regulator on the transparency of fees on online fundraising platforms.
Answer: Fundraising platforms are commercial organisations that provide an important service to charities and donors. Most platforms are registered with the Fundraising Regulator, which is the independent, non-statutory regulator of charitable fundraising in Engl...
Answered 12 May 2025
Original Parliament recordFundraising: InternetDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 30 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 49460More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to increase the transparency of fees on online fundraising platforms.
Answer: Fundraising platforms are commercial organisations that provide an important service to charities and donors. Most platforms are registered with the Fundraising Regulator, which is the independent, non-statutory regulator of charitable fundraising in Engl...
Answered 12 May 2025
Original Parliament recordArtificial Intelligence: CopyrightDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 7 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 44599More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, which stakeholders (a) she and (b) Ministers in her Department had discussions with on the consultation on copyright and artificial intelligence between 1 September 2024 and 4 April 2025.
Answer: Between 1 September 2024 and 4 April 2025 DCMS Ministers have met with numerous stakeholders from across the creative industries, including trade bodies and industry leaders, to discuss the government’s consultation on Copyright and Artificial Intelligenc...
Answered 28 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordDepartment for Culture, Media and Sport: StreamingDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 11 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 37319More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 5 March 2025, to Question 33995, on Department for Culture, Media and Sport: Internet what proportion of spending on the First Draft podcast was allocated to its (a) pro
Answer: I refer the Hon Member to my answer to PQ 33995.
Answered 18 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordFood: AdvertisingDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 4 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 35375More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether her Department is updating its impact assessment on restrictions on advertisements for less healthy food and drink products.
Answer: DCMS is working closely with the Department for Health and Social Care, the lead department for the less healthy food and drink advertising restrictions, to monitor and assess the impacts and potential impacts of the legislation which was enacted by the p...
Answered 10 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordDepartment for Culture, Media and Sport: StreamingDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 26 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33995More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much time officials in her Department spent on the production of the First Draft podcast.
Answer: The podcast was created and delivered as part of the DCMS Communications Teams' day to day work at no extra cost.
Answered 5 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordDepartment for Culture, Media and Sport: StreamingDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 26 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33994More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many officials in her Department are responsible for the First Draft podcast.
Answer: The podcast was created and delivered as part of the DCMS Communications Teams' day to day work at no extra cost.
Answered 5 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordDepartment for Culture, Media and Sport: StreamingDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 26 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33993More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what the cost to the public purse was of the First Draft podcast.
Answer: The podcast was created and delivered as part of the DCMS Communications Teams' day to day work at no extra cost.
Answered 5 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordTelevision: BroadcastingDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32024More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of EY's report entitled TV distribution after 2034, published in February 2024.
Answer: The Government has an ongoing project on the future of TV distribution after 2034, which is considering how people receive their television now and in the next decade. The evidence being considered as part of this process includes EY’s report. DCMS also p...
Answered 4 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordFood: AdvertisingDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 13 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31561More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment he has made of the implications for his Department’s policies of the press notice from the Advertising Standards Authority entitled Media restrictions on advertisements for “less
Answer: I have met the ASA and Ofcom twice to discuss the statement and the ASA’s subsequent consultation and officials are closely engaged with stakeholders. Implementing advertising restrictions for less healthy food or drink on television and online is a manif...
Answered 24 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordVisitor Levy: WalesDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 16 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24490More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make an assessment of the potential implications for her policies of the proposal by the Welsh government to enable local authorities to charge a visitor levy.
Answer: Tourism is a devolved policy matter and we work closely with the Devolved Administrations. My department will carefully monitor the proposal by the Welsh government. Tax policy is a matter for HM Treasury and there are currently no plans to introduce a si...
Answered 21 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordThe Observer: Buy OutsDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 15 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24264More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions she has had with (a) the Guardian Media Group and (b) Tortoise Media on the proposed buyout of the Observer newspaper.
Answer: It would be inappropriate to comment on any live merger case. As is clear under the Enterprise Act, this is a quasi-judicial process for the DCMS Secretary of State alone to exercise the statutory powers based on the evidence and following the established...
Answered 20 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordYoung PeopleDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 15 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24263More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when she plans to publish the National Youth Strategy.
Answer: We plan to publish the National Youth Strategy in the summer, with an interim report to come out in the spring.
Answered 22 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordCulture and Sports: LoansDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 19 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 21408More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions she has had with the (a) sports and (b) cultural sector on the repayment of Covid-19 loans by September 2025.
Answer: Loan financing was provided to organisations on favourable terms, tailored to meet the unique legal and financial circumstances of sporting and cultural organisations. The Government is clear that these loans must be repaid and, where necessary, steps wil...
Answered 9 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordCulture and Sports: LoansDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 19 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 21407More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will take steps to ensure that Covid-19 loans to the (a) culture and (b) sports sectors are repaid in full.
Answer: Yes.
Answered 13 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordParthenon SculpturesDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 10 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19067More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether she has had recent discussions with representatives of the British Museum on the Elgin Marbles.
Answer: As the British Museum is a DCMS Arm’s Length Body, both the Secretary of State and I have recently met its Chair and Director. The sculptures were one of a number of issuesdiscussed.Decisions relating to the care and management of its collection are a mat...
Answered 16 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordParthenon SculpturesDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 3 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 17618More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions she has had with her counterparts in the Greek Government on (a) loaning and (b) donating the Elgin Marbles to Greece.
Answer: I met Greece’s Tourism Minister Olga Kefalogianni on 4 November for a meeting regarding tourism, when she raised the Parthenon Sculptures among many other matters.Decisions relating to the care and management of the Parthenon Sculptures are a matter for t...
Answered 9 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordTourismDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 28 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 16829More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to her Department's press release entitled New ambition for 50 million annual visits to UK announced by Tourism Minister, published on 27 November 2024, what steps she plans to tak
Answer: The new Visitor Economy Advisory Council will work closely with industry and government to develop a national strategy for growth in the sector to achieve this target. We believe it is important to set this ambitious target, because although the UK attrac...
Answered 6 Dec 2024
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