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1151900

	registered interest
	date	23/10/2019
	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 Investment Fund
	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 Chancellor of the Exchequer's announcement of a new £500 million youth investment fund, what the (a) capital and (b) revenue expenditure of that investment fund will be in each of the next five years; how that funding will be allocated; and when that funding will be made available.
	tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
	tabling member printed	Cat Smith
	uin	4397
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2019 answer text Funding from the Youth Investment Fund will be released from 2020-21, and DCMS officials are working alongside HM Treasury to confirm the details.<p /><p />We will be designing the fund in close consultation with young people, the organisations that work with them and other departments. We will communicate our plans for this as soon as possible. answering member constituency Loughborough answering member printed Nicky Morgan question first answered 28/10/2019 20:02:34 answering member 4027 label Biography information for Baroness Morgan of Cotes
	tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

1151858

	registered interest
	date	23/10/2019
	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 Services: Capital Investment
	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 total annual capital expenditure for local authority youth services was in each year since 2010 by local authority.
	tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
	tabling member printed	Cat Smith
	uin	4368
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2019 answer text The data concerning the total capital expenditure for local authority youth services in each year since 2010 is not held by my department. answering member constituency Loughborough answering member printed Nicky Morgan question first answered 28/10/2019 20:01:18 answering member 4027 label Biography information for Baroness Morgan of Cotes
	tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

1307203

	registered interest
	date	12/04/2021
	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	UK Youth Parliament
	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 assessment the Government has made of whether obtaining commercial sponsorship for the UK Youth Parliament is (a) achievable and (b) desirable.
	tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
	tabling member printed	Cat Smith
	uin	179207
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2021 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p>DCMS did not seek commercial sponsorship for the UK Youth Parliament. The grant competition for the 2021/22 UK Youth Parliament programme was open to charitable, benevolent and philanthropic organisations.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>For DCMS grant competitions, an organisation's ability to bring in additional resources, for example by creating delivery efficiencies with partner organisations or through match funding may be considered as part of the assessment criteria. In the 2021/22 UK Youth Parliament grant competition, an organisation’s ability to bring in additional resource was considered. Applicants to the grant competition were invited to demonstrate how they would be able to secure external funding and partnerships to supplement the DCMS grant.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Boston and Skegness answering member printed Matt Warman question first answered 20/04/2021 10:22:38 answering member 4361 label Biography information for Matt Warman
	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

969194

	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	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 19 July 2018 to Question 163143 on National Citizen Service Trust, how many workshops were delivered to young people during Summer 2018 in collaboration with the Parliament Education Service; where those workshops were held; how many people attended those workshops; and whether there are plans for similar workshops in the future.
	tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
	tabling member printed	Cat Smith
	uin	171452
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2018 answer text <p>Around 85% of NCS programmes this year include activities with an explicit focus on political and democratic engagement. The Parliament Education Service (PES) are just one of the partners who help to deliver this content, but they alone reached 11,000 young people across the country this Summer (data is not held centrally on the locations of these workshops). Furthermore, the NCS Trust Extension Team is also working with Bite the Ballot to support NCS graduates to engage with National Democracy Week in 2019.</p><p> </p><p>The NCS Trust are in the process of revamping programme quality and planning frameworks, which will set an expectation that all NCS programmes will feature sessions designed to improve political and democratic outcomes (as per the requirement in the NCS Royal Charter). Specialist partners such as PES and Bite the Ballot will be invited to help develop the related guidance.</p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 11/09/2018 13:08:44 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
	tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

1308579

	registered interest
	date	13/04/2021
	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 budget of the National Citizen Service was spent on advertising and marketing in 2019-20.
	tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
	tabling member printed	Cat Smith
	uin	180549
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2021 answer text <p>As detailed in the National Citizen Service Trust’s Annual Report 2019/20, ‘Communication, Marketing and Media Costs’ totalled £7,099,000. This accounts for circa 4.5% of the total expenditure of the National Citizen Service Trust for 2019/20, which was £156,384,000.</p> answering member constituency Boston and Skegness answering member printed Matt Warman question first answered 19/04/2021 10:45:18 answering member 4361 label Biography information for Matt Warman
	tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

1309854

	registered interest
	date	16/04/2021
	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: Costs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if he will publish the full cost of the unfilled places of the National Citizens Service in 2019-20.
	tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
	tabling member printed	Cat Smith
	uin	182067
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/04/2021 answer text <p>As detailed in the National Citizen Service Trust’s Annual Report for the financial year 2019/20, the impact of Covid-19 has meant that NCST are unable to calculate standard value for money metrics on a financial year basis due to the cancellation of the Summer 2020 programme. Instead, NCST measured their performance on cost of unfilled places on a calendar year basis.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>As stated in NCST’s Annual Report 2019/20, costs of unfilled places fell year on year from £9.5m in 2018 to £5.0m in 2019. This spend went to NCST’s network of Delivery Partners (mostly made up of non-profit youth sector organisations), who the Trust gives part of their revenue upfront to support preparatory activities such as running recruitment events and hiring programme staff.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The revised supplier contracts from 2020 onwards have been designed to minimise the risks of the Trust paying for places which are not filled in future. Furthermore, centralised booking of accommodation will enable the Trust to improve payment terms and minimise unfilled bed costs.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Boston and Skegness answering member printed Matt Warman question first answered 21/04/2021 10:32:48 answering member 4361 label Biography information for Matt Warman
	tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

1107796

	registered interest
	date	29/03/2019
	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, pursuant to the Answer of 11 October 2018 to Question 176383, how much funding has been released from dormant bank accounts to support young people.
	tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
	tabling member printed	Cat Smith
	uin	238656
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/04/2019 answer text <p>As part of the Civil Society Strategy, the Government committed to working with the National Lottery Community Fund to allocate £90 million from dormant bank accounts to a new, independent organisation to support young people furthest away from the labour market. Last week, the Youth Futures Foundation (YFF) launched and announced its Founding Chair, Joe Montgomery.</p><p> </p><p>Over the coming months, YFF will set out its strategy for using this funding to support the most disadvantaged young people into employment. Funding is supporting small, grassroot youth organisations working with young people Not in Employment, Education or Training (NEET) or at risk of becoming NEET, to build their organisational capacity and strengthen local partnerships.</p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 03/04/2019 16:09:21 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

1310557

	registered interest
	date	20/04/2021
	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 young people have (a) commenced and (b) graduated from a National Citizenship Service (NCS) programme in (a) 2018-19 and (b) 2019-20; and what the Government's target for participation in the NCS was in each of those years.
	tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
	tabling member printed	Cat Smith
	uin	184499
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2021 answer text <p>As per National Citizen Service Trust’s 2018/19 Annual Report, 99,674 young people took part in the NCS programme in the 2018 calendar year (England only) with a completion rate of 93%. This compares to a target of 100,000 young people for the calendar year 2018.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>In the 2019 calendar year, 92,041 young people took part in the NCS programme. This figure includes 552 young people who participated in the Spring 2019 cohort but were excluded from NCST’s 2019/20 Annual Report (which covers the April 2019 to March 2020 financial year). The target for 2019/20 was set for the financial, rather than calendar year and was for at least 100,000 young people to take part in NCS.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The completion rate for 2019 was 88% for the calendar year. Two key factors contributed to this lower participation rate in comparison to 2018:</p><ul><li><p>Significant underperformance of one of the largest providers of NCS at the time - they exited the network at the end of 2019.</p></li><li><p>A tightening of criteria around what constitutes a &quot;graduate&quot; from the NCS programmes on the back of process reviews and systems changes that took effect from Spring 2019.</p></li></ul><p> </p> answering member constituency Boston and Skegness answering member printed Matt Warman question first answered 26/04/2021 13:59:43 answering member 4361 label Biography information for Matt Warman
	tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

1311481

	registered interest
	date	22/04/2021
	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 19 April to Question 180550, on voluntary work, (a) what is the definition of a core participant; and (b) what proportion of core participants completed the whole NCS programme from start to finish.
	tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
	tabling member printed	Cat Smith
	uin	185962
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2021 answer text <p>Core participant numbers reflect the young people who took part in the part-residential NCS programme during the relevant seasons. Participation numbers in other NCS activities are not counted towards this figure.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>For section (b) of this Question, please refer to my answer to Question 184499.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Boston and Skegness answering member printed Matt Warman question first answered 27/04/2021 13:13:16 answering member 4361 label Biography information for Matt Warman
	tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith