Great Britain: Department for Culture, Media and Sport

The Digital Switchover Help Scheme is focused on providing practical assistance and support to those individuals who need it most, so ensuring that no one will be left behind in the switch to digital TV. It is aimed at people aged 75 and over, people with significant disabilities and people who are registered blind or registered partially sighted. People with significant disabilities are those who receive Attendance Allowance or Disability Living Allowance. The assistance and support provided by the Scheme will include: providing equipment to convert one TV set; help with installation; follow-up support. This provision will be free to the poorest eligible households (ie those on Income Support, Job Seeker's Allowance or Pension Credit). Other eligible households will need to pay a one-off modest fee. This Agreement between the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and the BBC covers: principles, provisions and definitions; eligibility, making and determining applications; assistance under the scheme, and review and appeal procedures; service standards, charges and relations with other bodies. It also explains the arrangements concerning expenditure, financing and borrowing, the governance and accountability of the scheme, and outlines the types of assistance available under the scheme.

a scheme agreement between Her Majesty's Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport and the British Broadcasting Corporation

The digital switchover help scheme

Great BritainDepartment for Business, Innovation and Skills

In this document the Government sets out a programme of action designed to position the UK as a long-term leader in communications, creating an industrial framework that will fully harness digital technology. The UK's digital dividend will transform the way business operates, enhance the delivery of public services, stimulate communications infrastructure ready for next-generation distribution and preserve Britain's status as a global hub for media and entertainment. This approach seeks to maximise the digital opportunities for all citizens. The report contains: (1) an analysis of the levels of digital participation, skills and access needed for the digital future, with a plan for increasing participation, and more coherent public structures to deal with it; (2) an analysis of communications infrastructure capabilities; (3) plans for the future growth of creative industries, proposals for a legal and regulatory framework for intellectual property and proposals on skills and investment support and innovation; (4) a restatement of the need for specific market intervention in the UK content market, with implications and challenges for the BBC and C4 Corporation and other forms of independent and suitably funded news; (5) an analysis of the skills, research and training markets, and what supply side issues need addressing for a fully functioning digital economy; (6) a framework for digital security and digital safety at international and national levels and recognition that a world of high speed connectivity needs a digital framework not an analogue one; (7) a review of what all of this means for the Government and how digital governance in the information age demands new structures, new safeguards, and new data management, access and transparency rules.

final report

Digital Britain

The draft Bill is designed to reform and unify the terrestrial and marine heritage protection systems in England and Wales. As currently drafted it will replace provisions of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas Act 1990, the Historic Buildings and Ancient Monuments Act 1953, the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979 and the Protection of Wrecks Act 1973.

Draft Heritage Protection Bill

Great Britain. Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Great Britain, Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Response to HCP 594, session 2005-06 (ISBN 9780102936179). The report by the Committee of Public Accounts on the topic was published as HCP 813, session 2005-06 (ISBN 9780215028389)

Great Britain: Department for Culture, Media and Sport

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