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Legal Deposit Libraries Bill
Mr. Simon Thomas: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what discussions she has had with the National Library of Wales regarding the Legal Deposit Libraries Bill. [115034]
Mr. Caborn: We have discussed with the Welsh Assembly and the British Library, both of whom represent the interests of the National Library of Wales, all aspects of the Bill.
Mr. Simon Thomas: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what representations she has received from on-line publishers regarding the Legal Deposit Libraries Bill. [115035]
Mr. Caborn: We have received representations from on-line publishers about all aspects of the Bill that affect their interests, and officials have met them to discuss the points they have raised.
Mr. Simon Thomas: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what financial provision she has made for legal deposit libraries arising from their new responsibilities under the Legal Deposit Libraries Bill. [115036]
Mr. Caborn: We have discussed the financial consequences with the British Library who have told us that they can meet the costs within existing resources. We have not received any representations on funding from the other deposit libraries.
Local Authority Grants
Mr. Coleman: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what specific or direct grants have been made by her Department to local authorities for 2003–04 (a) in England and (b) broken down by local authority, identifying whether the grant is (i) ring fenced, (ii) a specific formula grant, (iii) within aggregate external finance and (iv) outside aggregate external finance. [114921]
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Mr. Caborn: The information for the Department for Culture, Media and Sport is as follows:
- Grant to Tyne & Wear Museums Service: £1,100,000. A federation of ten museums and galleries run by the Tyne and Wear local authorities. This grant is ring fenced and is outside of Aggregate External Finance.
Grant to Greater London Authority: £1,900,000. The grant is ring-fenced for tourism purposes and is inside Aggregate External Finance.
Museums and Galleries
Mr. Laws: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what her estimate is of total
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government financial support for museums and galleries (a) in London and (b) in the rest of England, in each year from 1996–97; and if she will make a statement. [99845]
Dr. Howells: An estimate of financial support to be provided by Government for museums and galleries in London and the rest of England is listed in the table. The distribution of funding reflects the fact that the larger national museums are based in London.
Further government support for museums and many other services is channelled through the Environmental, Protective and Cultural Services block, and is not separately identified. Individual authorities decide what to spend on local museums, from 1996–97 to 2001–02 they spent over £80 million on local museums m London and almost £800 million on local museums in the rest of England. Museums and galleries also receive some funding from the EC budget through the Structural Funds.
| 1996–97 | 1997–98 | 1998–99 | 1999–2000 | 2000–01 | 2001–02 | 2002–03 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| London | 194.16 | 193.26 | 194.83 | 207.76 | 217.14 | 233.60 | 254.08 |
| Rest of England | 39.98 | 35.49 | 34.07 | 39.94 | 41.65 | 46.62 | 53.42 |
| Total | 234.14 | 228.75 | 228.9 | 248.7 | 258.79 | 280.22 | 307.5 |
Note:
Branches of London museums in the rest of England are included in the London figure.
Regional Arts Councils
Mr. Oaten: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what estimate she has made of the savings made following the restructuring of regional arts councils in May 2001. [115307]
Dr. Howells: On 1 April 2002, the Arts Council and the Regional Arts Boards merged to form a single organisation to support the arts in England. A key outcome of this merger will be a reduction in administration costs and these savings will be made available to the arts. Arts Council England has announced that they will save nearly £20 million over the next three years. The forecast timing of these savings is: 2003–04 £4.1 million, 2004–05 £7.4 million and 2005–06 £8.1million.
Youth Football
Mr. Paul Marsden: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what the change in financial support to funding youth football teams in Shropshire will be for the next season. [115029]
Mr. Caborn: The Government invest substantially in the development of youth football through the Football Foundation. The Foundation makes substantial contributions to the funding of football in Shropshire. Over £1 million has been spent on grass-roots development and community and education initiatives in 2002–03. This includes an approved grant of £62,000 for a football development scheme run by Telford and Wrekin Council. In 2003–04, three grass-root development applications totalling approximately £300,000 have been received so far for good causes in the county. These are currently being considered.
TRADE AND INDUSTRY
Advertising
Mr. Bercow: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what the total expenditure on advertising by the Department was in (a) 2001–02 and (b) 2002–03; and what the level of planned expenditure is for (i) 2003–04 and (ii) 2004–05. [114424]
Ms Hewitt: DTI advertising expenditure through the COI was
(b) £13,741,906 (2002–03) provisional figure
Details of planned advertising expenditure in 2003–04 and 2004–05 is not held centrally and will become available only at the end of these financial years.
Corporate Social Responsibility
Mr. Austin Mitchell: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what plans she has to require public limited companies to publish an annual social responsibility report. [114908]
Miss Melanie Johnson: The Government's plans for a revised reporting regime for all companies were contained in the White Paper "Modernising Company Law" (Cm 5553), published in July 2002. This included the proposal that economically significant companies should be required to prepare an Operating and Financial Review as part of their annual financial statements and reports. The Review would include information on matters of corporate social responsibility where those were relevant to an informed assessment of the company.
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We continue to encourage companies to publish annual corporate social responsibility reports on a voluntary basis.
Atypical Workers Directive
Mr. Spring: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (1) what estimate the Government has made of the number of jobs that would be affected if the Atypical Workers Directive were implemented; [115237]
- (2) what estimate the Government has made of the costs of implementing the Atypical Workers Directive; [115239]
(3) if she will make a statement on the Government's policy towards the Atypical Workers Directive; [115236]
(4) what study of the comparative effects across the EU of the Atypical Workers Directive the Government has made; and if she will make a statement. [115238]
Alan Johnson: The Government are not opposed in principle to the proposed directive on agency work but are keenly aware of the potential impact on UK agencies and agency workers of a directive that takes no account of conditions in the UK labour market. The Government are pressing very hard for the UK's legitimate concerns to be recognised.
The Department of Trade and Industry has not produced a study of the potential impact on other countries in the European Union. The European Commission's impact assessment (Commission Paper 2002 149) was published in March 2002 with their proposal for a directive. This document is in the Libraries of the House.
An explanatory memorandum setting out the Government's policy on the proposed directive and a regulatory impact assessment of the potential costs and benefits for the UK including a discussion of possible employment effects have been published and are in the Libraries.
Company Auditors
Mr. Austin Mitchell: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what plans she has to make auditors subject to a single statutory regulator. [114907]
Miss Melanie Johnson: I refer my hon. Friend to the answer I gave him on 29 April 2003, Official Report, columns 311–12W.
Mr. Austin Mitchell: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what plans she has to impose a duty of care to (a) shareholders and (b) employers on company auditors. [114906]
Miss Melanie Johnson: I refer my hon. Friend to the answer I gave him on 19 March 2003, Official Report, column 766W.
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