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Agora

Unique visitors

Total visitors

Total page views

BBC Charter Review

Unique visitors

6,621

6,856

n/a

6,504

5,677

8,711

Total visitors

33,622

30,836

n/a

28,311

21,686

34,798

Total page views

34,245

33,274

n/a

34,826

34,474

36,743

Communications Act

Unique visitors

(2)

Total visitors

(2)

Total page views

(2)

Culture

Unique visitors

104,309

92,602

70,554

91,028

90,897

94,808

Total visitors

356,186

232,620

292,222

351,792

326,162

375,255

Total page views

1,934,782

2,002,367

2,317,114

229,003

1,842,804

2,206,292

Digital TV

Unique visitors

22,551

28,852

25,205

23,576

14,542

16,035

Total visitors

31,978

43,746

38,126

38,277

26,068

28,354

Total page views

58,007

76,705

67,377

65,822

41,441

45,308

Government Art Collection

Unique visitors

24,238

24,943

21,294

n/a

22,776

31,275

Total visitors

61,291

58,925

51,942

n/a

52,022

78,430

Total page views

159,108

177,000

151,680

n/a

132,178

189,961

World Heritage

Unique visitors

1,947

2,911

1,012

1,391

893

1,004

Total visitors

3,226

5,950

2,022

2,816

1,598

1,804

Total page views

11,583

13,753

10,792

11,602

9,916

10,216

Where We Live

Unique visitors

(2)

Total visitors

(2)

Total page views

(2)

n/a = No figures available
(1) Website closed July 2007
(2) Website closed October 2007

Departmental Recruitment

Mr. Burstow: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many people recruited by his Department in 2007-08 were aged over (a) 55 years and (b) 60 years; and what percentage this represented of the number of new recruits in each case. [235248]

Mr. Sutcliffe: As the values involved are less than five in DCMS standard statistical practice prevents us from releasing this information to protect individuals' identities.

Football: Debts

Mr. Kilfoyle: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport if he will bring forward legislative proposals to (a) regulate the debt of professional football clubs and (b) regulate the ownership of professional football clubs, with particular reference to foreign ownership. [235992]

Mr. Sutcliffe: Neither the Secretary of State nor I are currently considering any legislation to regulate the debt or the ownership of professional football clubs.

However, I understand that these issues are of concern to the public and I have therefore sought the views of the football authorities on these and other issues. I look forward to receiving their response.

Gambling: Regulation

Mr. Don Foster: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport pursuant to the answer of 21 July 2008, Official Report, columns 805-06W, on gambling, what steps the Gambling Commission has taken in respect of those gambling operations which failed its mystery shopper tests; if he will place in the Library a list of those organisations which have failed the tests to date; how many such tests have been conducted to date; how many remote gambling operations have failed the tests; and in which jurisdictions those remote organisations are based. [234966]


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Mr. Sutcliffe: A pilot mystery shopping exercise was undertaken in the summer of 2007 on remote sites operated by prospective licensees and others. The Commission also conducts an ongoing programme of mystery shopping visits to remote gambling websites as part of its wider compliance effort for licensed remote gambling operators. The Commission expects to conduct further testing of operators licensed in other jurisdictions but to date all of those tested since 1 September 2007 under the provisions of the Gambling Act 2005 are operators licensed in Great Britain.

In instances where deficiencies are identified, the Commission engages in further testing and may require operators to respond to our compliance findings in writing or conduct formal compliance visits depending on the circumstances. All of the licensed operators identified as having questions over their procedures in the pilot study undertaken last summer were found to have effective measures in place in our more recent testing.

The Commission has the power to impose a more serious regulatory sanction on any licensed operator in the remote gambling sector but has not yet had reason to do so.

The Commission has advised me that by disclosing the names of websites visited it would compromise transparent communication between the regulator and regulated community, prejudicing the Commission’s ability to investigate instances of non-compliance. In the light of this advice, it would not be appropriate to provide this information.

Gambling: Young People

Mr. Don Foster: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what research the Gambling
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Commission has undertaken on age verification procedures in jurisdictions which have remote online gambling companies allowed to advertise in the UK. [234949]

Mr. Sutcliffe: The Gambling Commission has not undertaken specific research relating to age verification procedures in jurisdictions permitted to advertise remote gambling in the United Kingdom. However, the Commission has provided advice to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport on certain technical aspects in relation to applications received by the Department to be allowed to advertise gambling in the UK.


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