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Oral Answers to Questions — Culture, Media and Sport: Illegal File Sharing (9 Nov 2009) has video

Siôn Simon: We intend to introduce legislation to address this serious problem in the next parliamentary Session. Our proposals include a system of notifications to those infringing copyright online and action against the most serious infringers.

Oral Answers to Questions — Culture, Media and Sport: Illegal File Sharing (9 Nov 2009) has video

Siôn Simon: I am grateful to the hon. Lady for that question. People who have done nothing wrong should not be in any danger of having their internet interfered with at all. Hardly anybody, other than the most serious and egregious recidivistic offenders, should ever be in danger of having any of their internet affected, and nobody will have their bandwidth squeezed or their account suspended until they...

Oral Answers to Questions — Culture, Media and Sport: Illegal File Sharing (9 Nov 2009) has video

Siôn Simon: I can assure my hon. Friend of that. We are not creating a sledgehammer; we are creating a light-touch regime to enforce the existing law.

Oral Answers to Questions — Culture, Media and Sport: Illegal File Sharing (9 Nov 2009) has video

Siôn Simon: First, no I cannot confirm that; how long it will take to reach that point will depend on how things go. In any case, how long it takes to get to a tiny number of very serious infringers having their internet interfered with is not the measure of success. If everything goes well, nobody will reach that point because earlier measures will do the job. I would be grateful if the hon. Gentleman...

Oral Answers to Questions — Culture, Media and Sport: Illegal File Sharing (9 Nov 2009) has video

Siôn Simon: That issue is very firmly in the file marked "Announced by my right hon. Friends at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills last week." As the hon. Gentleman says, we need reform of licensing and copyright legislation to bring the system into line with the new technology. That goes hand in hand with the measures to enforce copyright online, as does the message sent out clearly from...

Oral Answers to Questions — Culture, Media and Sport: Byron Review (9 Nov 2009) has video

Siôn Simon: Professor Byron's wide-ranging recommendations require cross-Whitehall co-operation. My Department is working as part of the UK Council for Child Internet Safety, as well as providing the new legislative framework we announced in "Digital Britain" to enable implementation of her recommendations.

Oral Answers to Questions — Culture, Media and Sport: Byron Review (9 Nov 2009) has video

Siôn Simon: The clearest recommendation of the Byron review is that content suitable for adults should be labelled and sold as such, and that it should be an offence to sell such content to children. That is the case under current law and it will be the case when the law changes under the digital economy Bill. The game to which my right hon. Friend refers is certificate 18 and should not be sold to...

Oral Answers to Questions — Culture, Media and Sport: Byron Review (9 Nov 2009) has video

Siôn Simon: I was in Dundee last week visiting the video games industry, and I certainly agree that it is a large and important industry in which we have a national competitive advantage. It is important that all Members of the House and the Government continue to support it.

Oral Answers to Questions — Culture, Media and Sport: Lottery Grants (9 Nov 2009) has video

Siôn Simon: I meet lottery distributors regularly. The Big Lottery Fund and its predecessors alone have made grants totalling £450 million to community buildings across the UK.

Oral Answers to Questions — Culture, Media and Sport: Lottery Grants (9 Nov 2009) has video

Siôn Simon: As the hon. Gentleman knows, I cannot comment in detail about individual bids. I can tell him that the money currently used to support veterans, partly in the way he describes and partly, for instance, in enabling them to take trips back to their battlegrounds with their comrades in their declining years, would unfortunately all be cut under the rather ill-thought-out plans of members of his...