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Culture, Media and Sport
Creative Industries (Funding)
Mr. Sheerman: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what steps she is taking to protect the budgets of those publicly funded organisations which promote creative industries. [91174]
Mr. Woodward: HM Treasury announced in July 2005 that there would be a Comprehensive Spending Review of Government spending. As part of this work the Department has been asked to identify how value for money could be improved. The Department is also compiling evidence on the wider benefits that our sectors bring for areas including the economy and community.
The Department has ensured that all of its sectors, including the Creative Industries, have been engaged with this process. DCMS is currently working with relevant non-departmental public bodies to finalise this.
Internet Gambling
Ben Chapman: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what representations she has received regarding the promotion of internet gambling sites in (a) broadcast and (b) non-broadcast media. [91141]
Mr. Caborn: We have had a number of discussions with the Gambling Commission, the Responsibility in Gambling Trust, remote gambling industry representatives, and others, on the promotion of internet gambling.
The promotion of gambling in non-broadcast media is regulated by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA); and in broadcast media it is regulated by Ofcom. ASA and Ofcom will consult the Gambling Commission when setting, reviewing and revising standards for gambling advertising.
Tote
Mr. Grogan: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport if she will make a statement on progress with negotiations regarding the planned sale of the Tote. [91132]
Mr. Caborn: The Government remain committed to selling the Tote to racing.
We are currently in discussions with racing regarding a closed sale of the Tote at full market value.
UK Film Council
Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what assessment she has made of the reasons for the difference in funding for film projects by the UK Film Council in (a) the City of Brighton and Hove and (b) West Sussex. [91166]
Mr. Woodward: The difference in funding for film projects between the City of Brighton and Hove and West Sussex is a reflection of the level of film making activity in each of the areas.
Since funding applications are necessarily considered on a project by project basis, the density of awards made in Brighton and Hove is attributable to the relative level of film activity in the area. Many more applications are received from Brighton and Hove (341) than from West Sussex (87).
It should be noted however that the proportion of successful applications to Screen South, the Regional Screen Agency for the South East, is in fact higher in West Sussex than in Brighton and Hove, with an average of 48 per cent. proceeding to award over the last four years compared with an average of 40 per cent. in Brighton and Hove over the same period.
Equally, applications to UK Film Council central funds show the same trend: more applications have been received from Brighton and Hove (140) than from West Sussex (51), but of those latter a higher percentage proceeded to award—25 per cent. as against 14 per cent.
Wicksteed Park
Mr. Hollobone: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport if the Minister with responsibility for creative industries and tourism will meet (a) a small delegation from the Wicksteed Trust and (b) the hon. Member for Kettering to discuss the opportunities and challenges facing the future of Wicksteed Park, Kettering. [91107]
Mr. Woodward: Subject to my other commitments, I should be very pleased to look into the possibility of a meeting with the hon. Gentleman to discuss Wicksteed Park. I look forward to his contacting my office to discuss a convenient date.
Communities and Local Government
Affordable Rural Housing Commission
Julia Goldsworthy: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government when her Department will respond to the recommendations of the Affordable Rural Housing Commission. [91272]
Yvette Cooper: The Government are already taking forward many of the recommendations of the Affordable Rural Housing Commission. Its proposals are being fed into a series of progress of work including the Comprehensive Spending Review and the forthcoming planning policy statement on housing. We will also shortly be setting up a website on which we will post progress we are making towards improving access to affordable housing in rural areas and examples of best practice in the light of the Affordable Rural Housing Commissions report.
Brownfield Development
Greg Clark: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer of 20 June 2006, Official Report, column 1744, on brownfield development, if she will break down the London figure for 2004 by local authority area. [84587]
Yvette Cooper:
The information available is from Land Use Change Statistics, shown in the following table. In a small number of London boroughs the proportions are not reliable enough to be shown for a single year. Proportions are also shown for the period
2001 to 2004 as a whole, and for the period 1989 to 1992 as a whole as four year averages are more reliable. Compared to 1989 to 1992 there has been a significant drop in the percentage of dwellings in London built on undeveloped land.
| New dwellings on previously-developed land: London | ||||
| Percentage | ||||
| 2004 | ||||
| New dwellings on previously-developed land, excluding conversions, as a proportion of all new dwellings | New dwellings on greenfield land as a proportion of all new dwellings | New dwellings on previously residential land as a proportion of all on previously developed land | New dwellings on previously residential land as a proportion of all new dwellings | |
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