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1061131

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date	14/02/2019
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Voluntary Work: Young People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what the annual participation targets are for the National Citizen Service to 2020-21.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	221691
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2019 answer text <p>Ministers confirm the annual participation target for the NCS programme alongside the approval of the yearly budget for the NCS Trust. For 2018/19, Ministers agreed a target of over 100,000 participants.</p><p> </p><p>The budget and participation target for 2019/20 are not due to be agreed until March 2019. The target for financial year 2020/21 will not be agreed until March 2020.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 19/02/2019 12:33:05 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

1061133

registered interest
date	14/02/2019
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Youth Organisations: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how much public money has been allocated to uniformed youth organisations in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	221692
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2019 answer text <p>The information requested is not all held centrally. In January 2015, a list showing grant schemes run by central government since the 2013 to 2014 financial year was published on GOV.UK, and subsequently annually updated. It can be found at the following link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/government-grants-register" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/government-grants-register</a>.</p><p> </p><p>This government has invested £5 million in 2018-19 in supporting uniformed youth organisations to engage thousands of disadvantaged young people in areas of deprivation across the country, improving their wellbeing, mental health and life skills. Details of the funding announced to date can be found at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/thousands-to-benefit-from-multi-million-pound-boost-to-youth-organisations" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/news/thousands-to-benefit-from-multi-million-pound-boost-to-youth-organisations</a> .</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 19/02/2019 12:42:42 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

1061165

registered interest
date	14/02/2019
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Voluntary Work: Young People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether he (a) has received representations and (b) holds information on changes to the commissioning and procurement procedure by the National Citizen Service Trust in identifying delivery partners and subcontracted partners in the English regions to which it plans to deliver directly; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	221695
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2019 answer text <p>Ministers have not received representations on changes to the commissioning and procurement procedure by NCS Trust in the regions it plans to deliver directly.</p><p> </p><p>NCS Trust is running its Recommissioning Programme to execute a revised delivery model for the NCS, in order to help it meet its objectives. Central to this model is the procurement of three different types of partner organisations that together will enable the delivery of the NCS programme from start to finish. Officials in DCMS are working closely with colleagues in the NCS Trust to make sure the Recommissioning Programme is successful.</p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 19/02/2019 12:38:19 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

1061166

registered interest
date	14/02/2019
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	National Citizen Service Trust
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 23 April 2018 to Question 135849, what recent steps he has taken to reduce the amount spent on unfilled places.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	221696
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2019 answer text <p>NCS Trust has regular checkpoints planned with its Delivery Partners to discuss their forecast performance in 2019 and make adjustments to the number of places commissioned where appropriate, in order to minimise spend on unfilled places</p><p><br> For provider contracts that begin in 2020, NCS Trust has re-designed the way its outsourced regional Management Partners will be paid, in order to significantly reduce the amount spent on places which are not filled. <br> <br> In areas where NCS Trust will be providing the regional management function itself, flexibility has been created within its contracts with Delivery Partners to confirm participant numbers for each season at a later point in the year. This will allow NCS Trust to make an assessment of the level of demand for NCS places, based on the number of young people who have signed up, ensuring an accurate number are commissioned. The aim of this approach is to use performance data in-season to better align the supply and demand for NCS places, minimising the number which are paid for but not filled.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 19/02/2019 12:40:04 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

1061235

registered interest
date	14/02/2019
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	National Citizen Service Trust
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 23 April 2018 to Question 135849 on National Citizen Service Trust, whether delivery partners will still be paid for unfilled places under the new proposed contracts for 2019.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	221734
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2019 answer text <p>Some NCS Delivery Partners are not responsible for managing the recruitment of young people to their programmes. These Delivery Partners are generally small, local non-profit organisations, so in order to protect them from undue financial risk, once the number of places being commissioned is confirmed by NCS Trust, payment for these places will be guaranteed.</p><p><br> For provider contracts that begin in 2020, NCS Trust has re-designed the way its Management Partners will be paid, in order to significantly reduce the amount spent on places which are not filled.</p><p> </p><p>Delivery Partners managing their own recruitment are guaranteed payment for a proportion of their NCS commissioned places. This gives smaller, local organisations the financial security they need to get involved in NCS. The remaining places will only be paid for if they are filled. NCS Trust will only pay for unfilled places in a situation where a Delivery Partner does not recruit enough young people to cover the proportion of places that has been guaranteed. This allows NCS Trust to share risk with the youth and voluntary sector, so that small organisations can benefit from being part of the delivery chain.</p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 19/02/2019 12:43:53 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith