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968957

	registered interest
	date	06/09/2018
	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	Gambling: Crime
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What steps his Department is taking to tackle gambling-related harm.
	tabling member constituency	Inverclyde
	tabling member printed	Ronnie Cowan
	uin	906665
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2018 answer text <p>This Government takes gambling-related harm seriously and in May we announced a strong package of measures to tackle it. We have taken decisive action on fixed-odds betting terminals to cut the maximum stake to £2. On 5<sup>th</sup> September, the Gambling Commission launched its consultation on proposals to increase player protections online, including stronger age and identity verification. Further consultation on affordability checks will follow in due course</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 06/09/2018 11:07:55 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
	tabling member	4465 label Biography information for Ronnie Cowan

968960

	registered interest
	date	06/09/2018
	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	Social Enterprises
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What steps his Department is taking to encourage the public sector to commission goods and services from social enterprises.
	tabling member constituency	Stoke-on-Trent Central
	tabling member printed	Gareth Snell
	uin	906669
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2018 answer text <p>The Civil Society Strategy recently set out government's long term ambition to grow social value commissioning and strengthen the Social Value Act.</p><p>We have already committed £2.7 million to support the growth and sustainability of public service mutuals, the majority of which are staff-led social enterprises.</p><p> </p><p>With the Cabinet Office, DCMS is implementing a package of measures for the future of social value and procurement. This includes training for government commercial staff and will help unlock more opportunities for social enterprises.</p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 06/09/2018 11:08:32 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
	tabling member	4595 label Biography information for Gareth Snell

968958

	registered interest
	date	06/09/2018
	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	What plans he has to discuss the establishment of a youth full-time social action pilot programme with delivery organisations.
	tabling member constituency	Mid Dorset and North Poole
	tabling member printed	Michael Tomlinson
	uin	906667
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2018 answer text <p>I met both Steve Holliday, the Chair of the Full Time Social Action Review, and City Year, a provider of full time social action, in May.</p><p> </p><p>I have no further plans to discuss a pilot programme with delivery organisations.</p><p> </p><p>We are committed to supporting young people to take action on the issues they care about, and has invested in youth social action through programmes including the #iwill campaign and the National Citizen Service.</p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 06/09/2018 11:06:57 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
	tabling member	4497 label Biography information for Michael Tomlinson

982539

	registered interest
	date	08/10/2018
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the recent report by London Youth entitled A space of our own: The role and value of youth organisations in strengthening communities, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that youth organisations are recognised as valuable parts of social infrastructure and are supported to strengthen communities.
	tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
	tabling member printed	Cat Smith
	uin	176382
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/10/2018 answer text <p>Government recognises the value of spaces for young people; a place of trust and safety, that provides high quality information, advice and guidance alongside positive activities that can help young people to develop skills, improve wellbeing and participate in their communities.</p><p> </p><p>Local authorities are primarily responsible for allocating public funding to youth services in their area. In addition, the Government is investing up to £40 million (in partnership with the Big Lottery Fund) in the Youth Investment Fund, which is supporting 90 youth organisations around the country to create and expand open access youth projects, and is expected to benefit up to 300,000 young people. This is part of a wider range of Government investment in services and opportunities for young people such as the #iwill fund and National Citizen Service.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch grouped question UIN 176384 question first answered 11/10/2018 15:16:46 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
	tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

982541

	registered interest
	date	08/10/2018
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the recent London Youth report entitled A space of our own: The role and value of youth organisations in strengthening communities, what steps his Department is taking to support youth organisations to protect high quality physical spaces for young people.
	tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
	tabling member printed	Cat Smith
	uin	176384
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/10/2018 answer text <p>Government recognises the value of spaces for young people; a place of trust and safety, that provides high quality information, advice and guidance alongside positive activities that can help young people to develop skills, improve wellbeing and participate in their communities.</p><p> </p><p>Local authorities are primarily responsible for allocating public funding to youth services in their area. In addition, the Government is investing up to £40 million (in partnership with the Big Lottery Fund) in the Youth Investment Fund, which is supporting 90 youth organisations around the country to create and expand open access youth projects, and is expected to benefit up to 300,000 young people. This is part of a wider range of Government investment in services and opportunities for young people such as the #iwill fund and National Citizen Service.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch grouped question UIN 176382 question first answered 11/10/2018 15:16:46 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
	tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

973236

	registered interest
	date	13/09/2018
	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	Children: Disadvantaged
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the announcement, Government invests £5m to increase places for disadvantaged children in youth organisations, published on 10 September 2018, to which areas he plans to distribute that funding; and whether he has plans to allocate funding from that fund to Wakefield.
	tabling member constituency	Wakefield
	tabling member printed	Mary Creagh
	uin	174651
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2018 answer text <p>The Uniformed Youth Fund will increase places in uniformed youth groups to reach disadvantaged young people. The Fund is open to uniformed youth organisations in England and is being managed by Youth United Foundation. The Fund is currently open for applications and will prioritise expansion in deprived areas.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 09/10/2018 16:00:48 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
	tabling member	1579 label Biography information for Mary Creagh

964406

	registered interest
	date	03/09/2018
	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, with reference to the Figure 11 – Volunteering Schemes – International Comparators (2016) and the conclusion on page 16 of Cost Benchmark Report National Citizen Service Final Report, published on 7 February 2018, what the average daily cost per participant to deliver the NCS programme was for (a) Service Civique; (b) Voluntary Social Year (FSJ) + Federal Volunteer Service; and (c) AmeriCorps (State & National).
	tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
	tabling member printed	Cat Smith
	uin	169485
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2018 answer text <p>The French, German and US schemes referred to in the Cost Benchmark Report do not deliver the NCS programme. These schemes are used to compare the cost of the NCS programme with other international youth programmes. The report finds that overall programme costs of NCS are significantly lower than those of these international comparators, although meaningful comparison is difficult as NCS is delivered in an intensive, 3-4 week programme, and these international schemes are delivered over an extended period, varying between 3-18 months and with varying levels of time commitment. These schemes also include direct and indirect payments to participants.</p><p> </p><p>DCMS and the NCS Trust are committed to further improving the value for money and reducing the unit cost of the NCS programme. A key opportunity to achieve this is the recommissioning of the NCS provider contracts from 2019 onwards.</p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 06/09/2018 11:04:31 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
	tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

964100

	registered interest
	date	03/09/2018
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to his Department's Community Life Survey 2017-18, published on 26 July 2018, what assessment he has made of the reasons for the decrease in the percentage of people taking part in formal volunteering at least once a month since 2013-14.
	tabling member constituency	Croydon North
	tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
	uin	169375
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2018 answer text <p>The Community Life Survey 2017-18, published on 26 July 2018, reports a 4% decrease in the number of people involved in social action in their local area at least once in the last year since 2013-14, and a 5% decrease in the number of people taking part in formal volunteering at least once a month since 2013-14.</p><p> </p><p>As a result of moving from a face-to-face interview to an online form, it is difficult to compare the Community Life Survey 2017-18 with the results from 2013-14 due to potential skews in the types of respondents and the absence of interviewer effects.</p><p> </p><p>The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport has invested significantly in programmes to increase meaningful volunteering and social action. These programmes focus on bringing people together and providing the tools, skills, knowledge and support networks to act as a catalyst for social action to develop (for example, Place Based Social Action, Community Organisers Expansion, Innovation in Democracy, Enabling Social Action).</p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch grouped question UIN 169374 question first answered 11/09/2018 13:56:52 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
	tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

964099

	registered interest
	date	03/09/2018
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to his Department's Community Life Survey 2017-18, published on 26 July 2018, what assessment he has made of the reasons for the decrease in the percentage of people involved in social action in their local area at least once in the last year since 2013-14.
	tabling member constituency	Croydon North
	tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
	uin	169374
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2018 answer text <p>The Community Life Survey 2017-18, published on 26 July 2018, reports a 4% decrease in the number of people involved in social action in their local area at least once in the last year since 2013-14, and a 5% decrease in the number of people taking part in formal volunteering at least once a month since 2013-14.</p><p> </p><p>As a result of moving from a face-to-face interview to an online form, it is difficult to compare the Community Life Survey 2017-18 with the results from 2013-14 due to potential skews in the types of respondents and the absence of interviewer effects.</p><p> </p><p>The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport has invested significantly in programmes to increase meaningful volunteering and social action. These programmes focus on bringing people together and providing the tools, skills, knowledge and support networks to act as a catalyst for social action to develop (for example, Place Based Social Action, Community Organisers Expansion, Innovation in Democracy, Enabling Social Action).</p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch grouped question UIN 169375 question first answered 11/09/2018 13:56:52 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
	tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

969066

	registered interest
	date	06/09/2018
	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	Charitable Donations
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to his August 2018 Civil Society Strategy, what plans the Government has to support legacy giving.
	tabling member constituency	Clwyd South
	tabling member printed	Susan Elan Jones
	uin	171336
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2018 answer text <p>As outlined in the Civil Society Strategy, this Government aims to ensure that it is as easy and compelling as possible for everyone to give to the causes they most care about. In recognition of the importance of legacy giving, the Government offers a reduced rate of inheritance tax for individuals leaving charitable gifts. We also strongly support the Institute of Fundraising’s Remember a Charity campaign, for example The Minister for Sport and Civil Society recently took direct action to encourage more legacy giving, urging solicitors to join the campaign and discuss leaving a gift with their clients.</p><p> </p><p>We plan to continue this support and to work with other organisations to raise awareness of legacy giving and the incentives to leave a gift in a will.</p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch grouped question UIN 171335 question first answered 11/09/2018 13:00:17 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
	tabling member	3956 label Biography information for Susan Elan Jones