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1123568

	registered interest
	date	29/04/2019
	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, pursuant to the Answer of 13 September 2018 to Question 170815 on Voluntary Work: Young People, how many of the NCS participants eligible for Free School Meals completed the programme in (a) the UK and (b) London in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
	tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
	uin	248724
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/05/2019 answer text <table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p><em>National Citizen Service</em></p></td><td><p><strong>2013</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2017**</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="2"><p><strong>England* </strong>Eligible for Free School Meals</p></td><td><p>Participants</p></td><td><p>7,302</p></td><td><p>9,283</p></td><td><p>12,334</p></td><td><p>14,427</p></td><td><p>16,702</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Completed</p></td><td><p>6,535</p></td><td><p>8,465</p></td><td><p>11,486</p></td><td><p>13,459</p></td><td><p>15,511</p></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="2"><p><strong>London </strong> Eligible for Free School Meals</p></td><td><p>Participants</p></td><td><p>2,096</p></td><td><p>1,633</p></td><td><p>3,106</p></td><td><p>3,636</p></td><td><p>4,117</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Completed</p></td><td><p>1,942</p></td><td><p>1,590</p></td><td><p>2,967</p></td><td><p>3,458</p></td><td><p>3,900</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>* Participation/completion data is not disaggregated for Northern Ireland; Wales ran an NCS pilot in 2014, but decided not to roll-out across the country; Scotland decided not to implement an NCS programme.</p><p>** The final participation and completion figures for the National Citizen Service programme in 2018 are undergoing compliance checks and will be published on gov.uk by Autumn 2019.</p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 07/05/2019 15:45:43 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

1015136

	registered interest
	date	26/11/2018
	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, how many people have participated in the National Citizen Service in each local authority area in each of the last three years.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	195559
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2018 answer text <p>See attached the National Citizen Service participation figures by Region and Local Authority for 2015, 2016 and 2017. We do not yet have consolidated data on 2018 participation figures, as the programme is still ongoing in some areas.</p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 04/12/2018 15:14:15 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies attachment 1 file name Participation by Region and LA 2015-17 - Turn Ups by Region and LA (2).pdf title Participation by Region and LA 2015-17
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1019962

	registered interest
	date	04/12/2018
	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, pursuant to the answer of 4 December 2018 to Question 195559 on Voluntary Work: Young People, what proportion of the those eligible to take part do the figures provided in that Answer represent.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	198776
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2018 answer text <p>Please see attached the proportion of young people eligible to take part in NCS, in relation to the figures provided in the Answer to PQ 195559.</p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 12/12/2018 14:23:17 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies attachment 1 file name Participation by Region and LA 2015-17 Turn Ups by Region and LA.pdf title Participants by Region and LA 2015-17
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1079354

	registered interest
	date	28/02/2019
	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 recent progress he has made in commissioning the National Citizen Service 2.0.
	tabling member constituency	Norwich South
	tabling member printed	Clive Lewis
	uin	227136
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2019 answer text <p>The Recommissioning Programme is midway through its procurement of all Network Partners who will be delivering the NCS programme from 2020 onwards. All bids for those Management, Delivery and Recruitment Partners have been received, with their evaluation on track and due to complete end-March. The NCS Trust plan to award contracts in July 2019.</p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 05/03/2019 15:39:21 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4500 label Biography information for Clive Lewis

1020425

	registered interest
	date	05/12/2018
	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, what steps his Department is taking to protect youth volunteering charities from financial difficulty; when his Department became aware of the financial difficulties facing vInspired; whether his Department is aware of other regional providers of the National Citizen Service who are in similar financial difficulties; and what estimate his Department has made of the number of young people affected by the closure of vInspired.
	tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
	tabling member printed	Cat Smith
	uin	199447
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2018 answer text <p>DCMS invests in youth organisations in a number of ways including the National Citizen Service and the Youth Investment and #iwill Funds in partnership with Big Lottery Fund.</p><p> </p><p>Independent charities are responsible for managing their own funding through various mechanisms including donations, trading and investment; and are accountable for their own financial solvency.</p><p> </p><p>vInspired informed DCMS officials that they were in financial difficulties and expected to shortly commence insolvency procedures in November 2018.</p><p> </p><p>vInspired Education are responsible for delivering the NCS programme in the North East, however this is a separate legal entity to vInspired. We are not aware of any regional providers of NCS who are in financial difficulties.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has assessed that there is no impact to young people on the NCS programme in the North East, and we do not currently hold an estimate of the number of young people who may be affected by other services vInspired provided.</p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 13/12/2018 17:01:02 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

1060752

	registered interest
	date	13/02/2019
	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, how much and what proportion of the total budget of the National Citizen Service was spent on advertising and marketing in each year since 2011.
	tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
	tabling member printed	Cat Smith
	uin	220945
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/02/2019 answer text <p>The Office for Civil Society funds the NCS Trust through an annual agreement. This provides a budget to cover NCS provider payments and a budget to cover NCS Trust's operating costs.</p><p> </p><p>NCS Trust was incorporated on 1 October 2012 and its first annual accounts were published on 31 March 2014. A summary of NCS marketing as a proportion of total budget has been provided below.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Programme Year</p></td><td><p>Marketing spend</p></td><td><p>Total budget</p></td><td><p>Marketing as % budget</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>£4,075,751</p></td><td><p>£117,000,000</p></td><td><p>3.48%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>£7,422,841</p></td><td><p>£155,000,000</p></td><td><p>4.79%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>£11,036,607</p></td><td><p>£181,000,000</p></td><td><p>6.10%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017-18</p></td><td><p>£9,949,813</p></td><td><p>£181,000,000</p></td><td><p>5.50%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018-19</p></td><td><p>£7,696,034</p></td><td><p>£178,000,000</p></td><td><p>4.32%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>An independent evaluation of the NCS programme commissioned from Kantar Public by DCMS in 2016 found that for every £1 spent, NCS's programmes delivered up to £2.42 of benefits back to society.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 18/02/2019 15:50:58 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

1061131

	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, 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

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

1063975

	registered interest
	date	19/02/2019
	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, pursuant to Answer of 18 February 2019 to Question 220945 on Voluntary Work: Young People, (a) how much and (b) what proportion of the total budget of the National Citizen Service the Department estimates it will spend on advertising and marketing in the financial year (i) 2019-20 and (ii) 2020-21.
	tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
	tabling member printed	Cat Smith
	uin	223147
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2019 answer text <p><strong> </strong>Budgets are set annually for the NCS Programme in collaboration with the NCS Trust Board. We are in the process of setting the NCS budget for 2019/20. As per the NCS Act and Royal Charter, the NCS Annual Accounts, Business Plan and Annual Report are laid in Parliament.</p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 25/02/2019 16:14:35 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

1064329

	registered interest
	date	20/02/2019
	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, how many teenagers have (a) commenced and (b) graduated a National Citizenship Service programme in each of the last four years; and what the Government's target was for participation in that programme since 2011.
	tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
	tabling member printed	Cat Smith
	uin	223803
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2019 answer text <table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2011</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2017</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2018</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Govt target</strong><sup>1</sup></p></td><td><p>10,000</p></td><td><p>30,000</p></td><td><p>50,000</p></td><td><p>66,433</p></td><td><p>90,000</p></td><td><p>100,000</p></td><td><p>101,000</p></td><td><p>100,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Annual participants</strong></p></td><td><p>8,434</p></td><td><p>26,003</p></td><td><p>39,566</p></td><td><p>57,789</p></td><td><p>75,605</p></td><td><p>92,996</p></td><td><p>99,179</p></td><td><p>TBC<sup>2</sup></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Completed</strong></p></td><td><p>7,140</p></td><td><p>22,245</p></td><td><p>37,266</p></td><td><p>51,512</p></td><td><p>68,762</p></td><td><p>87,266</p></td><td><p>90,010</p></td><td><p>TBC<sup>2</sup></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><sup>1 </sup>Government targets are for participation, not completion.</p><p><sup>2</sup> Final participation figures for 2018 will be confirmed in due course.</p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 25/02/2019 16:12:07 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith