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Mr. MacShane: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport if he will list (a) the nature an value of contracts his Department has entered into and (b) discussions Ministers or officials have held with the Monitor Consultancy since 1990. [14947]
Mr. Tom Clarke [holding answer 7 November 1997]: My Department was established in 1992 and since that date has not let any contracts, nor held any discussions, with the Monitor Consultancy.
Mr. Edward Davey: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what estimate he has made of the number of tennis clubs in England during each of the last 25 years. [15147]
Mr. Banks: According to the Lawn Tennis Association's (LTA) Survey of 1996, there are a total of 3,200 tennis clubs in England of which 2,400 are affiliated to the LTA. This compares against 2,700 LTA affiliated clubs 25 years ago.
Mr. Edward Davey: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much lottery funding has been provided to local tennis clubs to secure the freehold purchase of their existing grounds. [15151]
Mr. Banks: The English Sports Council has made awards totalling £184,649, to two tennis clubs to assist with the freehold purchase of their existing grounds.
Mr. Edward Davey: To ask the Secretary of State for culture, Media and Sport how many people in England he estimates play tennis; and what have been the trends over the last 25 years. [15150]
Mr. Banks: According to the Lawn Tennis Association's (LTA) Survey of 1996, there are 4.5 million people who play tennis in England, of which 1.75 million play regularly (once a fortnight or more). I understand that the LTA have not kept records of tennis participation levels for the last 25 years.
Mr. Edward Davey:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what is the minimum length of tenancy a sports club is required to hold in order to qualify for national lottery funding for capital projects. [15148]
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Mr. Banks:
The minimum length of leasehold required is dependent on the size of the award, as follows:
Years | |
---|---|
Up to £5,000 | 3 |
£5,001-£10,000 | 5 |
£10,001-£15,000 | 7 |
£15,001-£25,000 | 10 |
£25,001-£35,000 | 12 |
£35,001-£50,000 | 15 |
More than £50,000 | 21 |
Mr. Tipping: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport when he plans to announce the location of the British Academy for Sport. [14420]
Mr. Banks: We hope to make an announcement on the location shortly.
Mrs. Ballard: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport if he will make a statement on anomalies within the current concessionary television licence scheme. [14435]
Mr. Fisher: The regulations governing the concessionary scheme give rise to a number of real and perceived anomalies. However, changes at the margins of the scheme, to address such anomalies, would most likely create new ones and would do little to improve the public acceptability of the scheme. The current Agreement between the Government and the BBC specifies that the licence fee system will continue until 2002. In reviewing the arrangements for funding the BBC after the year 2002 we shall also comprehensively examine the concessionary arrangements. In the meantime, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport has produced a simplified explanatory leaflet on the concessionary scheme, which explains the qualifying criteria for the concession and answers some common questions about the scheme. Copies of the leaflet have been placed in the Libraries of the House.
Mr. Nigel Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what assessment he has made of the impact of withdrawal of tobacco sponsorship on sport; and if he will make a statement. [14904]
Mr. Banks: We are looking very carefully at how best to achieve an end to the advertising and promotion of tobacco at sports events in a way which will minimise any damage to the sports concerned. Discussions are underway within Government on how best to achieve this and I am consulting the sports concerned. Plans include a transitional period. The Government will publish a White Paper next year setting out measures to tackle tobacco consumption.
After considering the issue of sponsorship in great depth the Government has proposed excluding Formula One from the scope of the proposed EU Directive on tobacco advertising and sponsorship which is currently being negotiated. We have always made clear that we are
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pursuing twin objectives of reducing smoking and of safeguarding sport from any effects arising from the loss of tobacco sponsorship. The fact is that a blanket Europe-wide ban on Formula One sponsorship would not only mean fewer Grand Prix in Europe, but also, perversely, more tobacco advertising on our TV screens beamed in from events outside the European Union.
Mr. Jenkins:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport (1) how many hotel television licences have been issued in each year since 1990; and what was the total revenue received by the BBC from hotel television licences for each of these years; [14566]
(3) what estimate he has made of the revenue lost to the BBC through the evasion of television licensing regulations by hotels. [14567]
Mr. Fisher
[holding answer 10 November 1997]: Records of television licence fee revenue received from hotels are available only from 1991. Licence fee revenue from hotels since 1991 is:
(2) what steps his Department is taking to prevent the evasion of television licensing regulations by the proprietors of hotels; [14568]
Year | Number of hotel licences issued (000s) | Revenue (£ million) |
---|---|---|
1991-92 | 60 | 4.6 |
1992-93 | 58 | 4.7 |
1993-94 | 61 | 5.0 |
1994-95 | 65 | 5.5 |
1995-96 | 65 | 5.3 |
1996-97 | 66 | 6.1 |
Under the Broadcasting Act 1990, the BBC has been responsible for the administration of the television licensing system since April 1991. We understand from the BBC that no separate estimate is available of the cost of television licence fee evasion by the hotel trade. The BBC's agent, TV Licensing, makes use of a national hotels database, in addition to standard enforcement procedures, to ensure compliance by hotels with the licensing regulations, and new guidance issued to TV Licensing's enquiry officers includes specific instructions on hotels.
Mr. David Atkinson: To ask the President of the Board of Trade if she will make a statement on the guidelines or directives issued by the European Commission on the millennium computer problem; and if she will make a statement. [13156]
Mrs. Roche: No guidelines have been issued by the Commission.
Mr. Ian Taylor:
To ask the President of the Board of Trade what estimate she has made of the call on departmental budgets required to carry out the adjustments of their computers to cope with the Year 2000 problem. [14910]
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Mrs. Roche:
Each department is responsible for dealing with the Year 2000 problem affecting its own computers. Within core DTI the cost of dealing with the problem is estimated at £2.7m which will be found from existing PES provision. Agencies are responsible for their own programmes of work.
Mrs. Dunwoody:
To ask the President of the Board of Trade if she will list those organisations which have responded to the draft Bill on competition policy. [12986]
Mr. Nigel Griffiths:
The organisations and individuals who have responded to the consultation document "A prohibition approach to anti-competitive agreements and abuse of dominant position: draft Bill" to date are as follows:
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Allen & Overy
Anderson & Company
Anti Copying in Design
Ashurst Morris Crisp
Association Gas Supplies Ltd.
Association for Payment Clearing Services
Association of British Pharmaceutical Industry
Association of Chartered Certified Accountants
Association of Consulting Engineers
A.T. & T. (UK) Ltd.
Baker & McKenzie
B.A.T. Industries
BATMark
Berwin Leighton
B.G. plc.
Bishop & Robertson Chalmers
B.L.W.A.--Association of The Laboratory Supply Industry
Lord Borrie Q.C.
Brewers & Licensed Retailers Association
British Alcan Aluminium plc.
Bristows Cooke & Carpmael
British Brands Group
British Broadcasting Corporation
British Energy
British Insurers' International Committee
British Music Rights
British Petroleum
The British Phonographic Industry
British Printing Industries Federation
British Property Federation
British Retail Consortium
British Standards Institution
British Steel
British Telecom
Burger King
Burness
Michael Burnside Esq.
Mr. Justice Buxton
Cable & Wireless
Campaign For Real Ale
Centrica
Channel Four Television
Chemical Industries Association
The Cinema Exhibitors' Association
City of London Law Society
Professor Roger Clarke
Clifford Chance
B. Colgate Esq.
Combined Merchants (UK) Ltd.
Commercial Radio Companies Association
The Community Pharmacy Action Group
Competition Law Association
Confederation of British Industry
Confederation of Passenger Transport UK
Conoco Europe Gas Ltd.
Construction Confederation
Construction Industry Council
Consumers' Association
The Council for Professions Supplementary to Medicine
Cooper & Lybrand
Coudert Brothers
Dairy Industry Federation
Professor Steve Davies
Dawson, Mason & Carr
Dibb Lupton Alsop
Dixons Group plc/S. J. Berwin & Co.
The Document Company: Xerox
Jonathan Downing Esq.
Electricity Industry/Eversheds
Energy Intensive Users Group
English Welsh & Scottish Railway
Enron Europe Ltd.
Esso
Eversheds
F. J. Cleveland & Company
Federation of Agricultural Co-operatives (UK) Ltd.
The Federation of Environmental Trade Associations
Federation of Small Businesses
Finance & Leasing Association
Food & Drink Federation
The Forum of Private Business
Mark Furse Esq.
Garretts
Gas Consumers Council
General Cable
General Dental Council
GKN Plc.
Herbert Smith
Holman, Fenwick & Willan
Simon Hossack Esq.
Clive Howard-Luck Esq.
Martin Howe Esq.
Independent Television Association
The Insolvency Council
The Institute of Chartered Secretaries & Administrators
Johnsons News Group
Kingfisher
The Law Society
The Law Society of Scotland
Licensing Executives Society
Linklaters & Paines
Lloyd's
London International Insurance & Reinsurance Market Association
London Transport
Lovell White Durrant
McCullochs
Marks & Spencer
Mars/Lovell White Durrant
Music Industries Association
National Association of Master Bakers
The National Association of Estate Agents
National Consumer Council
National Federation of Retail Newsagents
National Food Alliance
National Power
The Newspaper Publishers Association Ltd.
Newspaper Publishing plc.
The Newspaper Society
Northern Ireland Electricity
Norton Rose
NTL (UK)
Office of the Rail Regulator
Office of Telecommunications
One 2 One
Passenger Transport Executive Group
Peachey & Co.
Pinsent Curtis
The Post Office
Leolin Price C.B.E Q.C.
Producers Industrial Relations Service Ltd.
Proprietary Association of Great Britain
Rt. Hon. John Redwood M.P.
Regulatory Policy Institute
Retail Motor Industry Federation
Reuters
Jonathan Rickford Esq.
The Royal Institution Of Chartered Surveyors
Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain
Scottish Association of Master Bakers
Scottish Power
Thomas Sharpe Q.C.
Shell International Ltd.
Simmons & Simmons
Singletons
Slaughter and May
The Society of Motor Manufacturers & Traders Ltd.
Somerset County Council
The Takeover Panel
The Telecommunications Managers Association
Tesco
Trade Marks Patents And Designs Federation
Travers Smith Braithwaite
UK Offshore Operators Association Ltd.
UK Petroleum Industry Association Ltd.
UK Steel Association
The Union of Independent Companies
Unisys Ltd.
Professor John Vickers
The Water Companies Association
Water Services Association
Derek Webb Esq.
Wedlake Bell
Tony Weir Esq.
Whitbread Plc.
Nicholas Williams Esq.
Wragge & Co.
The Department of Trade and Industry has also been engaged in detailed exchanges about the Bill with other public bodies, including the Monopolies and Mergers Commission, the Office of Fair Trading, OFTEL, ORR, OFGAS, OFFER, OFWAT and OFREG (NI).
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