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Departmental Databases

Jenny Willott: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport which databases managed by his Department and its agencies hold personal information on members of the public; on what date each such database become operational; and if he will make a statement. [284908]

Mr. Sutcliffe: My Department outsources management of all databases. The databases it uses which contain personal information are:

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Database	Operational
Finance	February 2006
Consultation-Audiovisual Media Services	October 2008
Consultation-BBC Charter Review	January 2004
Consultation-BBC White Paper	May 2006
Consultation-BBC Green Paper	June 2005
Consultation-Free to Air	April 2009
Consultation-Gambling Bill	March 2004
Consultation-Heritage Protection	April 2007
Consultation-McMaster Review	November 2007
Consultation-Museum of London Act (1965)	October 2003
Consultation-Ticket Touting	February 2009
Consultation-Television Without Frontiers	November 2006
Dome documents	November 2001
Freedom of Information Act Case Management	October 2004
Honours	2001
Information Centre Enquiry	March 2001
Lottery Grants	December 1996
Memorial-July 7th	July 2005
Memorial-Tsunami	March 2005
Records Centre	July 2003
Sponsored Bodies	July 1997

Databases managed by the Royal Parks Agency are:

Database	Operational
Estates Licencing	2000
Fund Raising	2001
Sports Booking	2005
Considerate Cycling Scheme	2007
What's On (visitor information)	2005

Jenny Willott: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what categories of personal information on members of the public will be held on each database expected to become operational in the next five years and which will be managed by his Department or its agency; what estimate he has made of the likely number of individuals' details each such database will hold when fully operational; and if he will make a statement. [286139]

Mr. Sutcliffe: My Department has no specific plans for databases in the future. However, they are used to capture views in consultations.

Jenny Willott: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what databases which will be managed by his Department and which will contain personal information are (a) under construction and (b) expected to go live in each of the next five years; and if he will make a statement. [286502]

Mr. Sutcliffe: My Department has no databases under construction. It has no specific plans for databases in the future. However, they are used to capture views in consultations.

Digital Broadcasting

Mr. Hunt: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what meetings Ministers and officials of his Department have had with representatives of BT to discuss the Government's Digital Britain report in the last six months. [285040]

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Mr. Bradshaw [holding answer 8 July 2009]: Lord Carter, joint Minister for the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and Department for Business, Innovation and Skills has met representatives of BT four times to discuss the Digital Britain White Paper in the last six months. Officials of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport have met with representatives of BT once in this time.

Hampton Court

Mr. Liddell-Grainger: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many grace and favour residences there are at (a) Hampton Court and (b) Kensington Palace; and how much income has been received from the residences in the last five years. [284401]

Barbara Follett: There are currently three grace and favour residences at Hampton Court and one at Hampton Court Mews occupied rent-free and there are no grace and favour residents at Kensington Palace. Grace and favour residences are by definition occupied rent-free and therefore no income has been received in the last five years.

Religious Buildings: Conservation

Robert Key: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much funding his Department allocated for the conservation of (a) cathedrals, (b) parish churches and (c) other places of worship in England in (i) 1997, (ii) 2001 and (iii) 2009. [286037]

Barbara Follett: In the years requested, the funding made available by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport was as set out in the following tables.

DCMS funding for churches conservation trust
	£
1997-98	2,480,000
2001-02	3,000,000
2008-09	3,161,000

DCMS funding for listed places of worship scheme( 1)
	£
1997-98	(2)-
2001-02	931,452
2008-09	13,411,061
(1) It is not possible to segregate the grants disbursed between cathedrals, parish churches and other places of worship. (2) Scheme not in place.

In addition, English Heritage made funding available for the conservation of cathedrals and other places of worship in England as set out in the following table. English Heritage does not distinguish between parish churches and places of worship in terms of funding.

£
	English Heritage funding offered to cathedrals	English Heritage funding offered to places of worship
1997-98	3,020,500	9,195,000
2001-02	2,519,000	2,524,200
2008-09	1,292,000	9,569,800

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Sports

Mr. Don Foster: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many people of each (a) sex and (b) ethnic group participated in each sporting activity for which his Department records figures in each of the last three years for which figures are available. [272980]

Mr. Sutcliffe: Sport England has provided figures for sports currently in receipt of funding, where sample sizes are sufficient. These are drawn from Active People Survey 1 (APS1), for the period 2005-06; and from Active People 2 (APS2), for the period 2007-08. Results are as follows:

	APS1
Sport	Male	Female	White	non-white
Athletics	836,900	516,500	1,245,000	108,800
Badminton	290,300	226,300	455,500	61,200
Basketball	125,100	33,100	108,900	49,400
Bowls	203,100	136,300	335,000	4,500
Boxing	87,500	28,000	99,400	16,200
Canoeing and Kayaking	26,200	10,300	35,100	(1)-
Cricket	179,600	15,400	151,300	43,800
Cycling	1,159,900	474,200	1,539,300	95,600
Dance exercise	17,400	125,700	129,300	13,600
Fencing	10,400	(1)-	12,500	(1)-
Fishing	139,900	6,500	145,200	(1)-
Football	1,870,000	149,700	1,755,000	266,700
Golf	763,900	124,400	867,400	21,700
Gymnastics and Trampolining	13,300	45,600	54,400	4,500
Hockey-field	49,300	44,600	88,500	5,300
Horse riding	41,700	273,200	309,800	4,800
Judo	13,200	4,000	15,000	(1)-
Mountaineering	49,400	17,800	63,200	4,000
Netball	(1)-	110,100	102,900	8,800
Rounders	(1)-	14,000	15,300	(1)-
Rowing	27,600	11,700	36,900	(1)-
Rugby League	67,100	6,500	68,300	5,500
Rugby Union	176,400	8,900	176,400	9,200
Sailing	46,600	17,400	61,900	(1)-
Shooting	53,300	4,800	56,600	(1)-
Skiing and Snowboarding	76,700	50,600	123,200	4,200
Squash and Racquetball	248,900	50,700	283,200	16,500
Swimming	1,127,300	2,147,500	3,098,800	175,100
Table Tennis	50,000	19,200	61,900	7,400
Taekwondo	11,200	7,900	16,700	(1)-
Tennis	244,600	212,400	418,800	38,200
Volleyball	18,500	14,200	27,000	5,800
Weightlifting	95,300	12,400	90,800	17,000

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