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1471747

	registered interest
	date	20/06/2022
	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 Work: Travellers
	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 her strategy is for ensuring that Gypsy, Roma and Traveller young people are reached by youth work in England.
	tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
	tabling member printed	Cat Smith
	uin	21217
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2022 answer text <p>Local Authorities have a statutory duty to secure sufficient youth services in line with local need. Before securing such services, local authorities are required to take steps to ascertain the views of young people in their area and must take those views into account when deciding on the services to be provided. Funding for these services come from the Local Government settlement, which was over £12 billion last year. DCMS are currently reviewing the guidance associated with the statutory duty.</p><p>DCMS funds Universal Youth Services that are open to all young people and is investing £560 million over the next 3 years in a new National Youth Guarantee, so that by 2025 every young person will have access to regular clubs and activities, adventures away from home and opportunities to volunteer.</p><p>Phase One of the Youth Investment Fund, administered by BBC Children in Need, has delivered £12 million of funding this year to over 400 local youth organisations in levelling up priority areas in England. Five organisations working with Gypsy, Roma and/or Traveller communities were awarded funding. The grants have a total value of £202,346 which represents 1.7% of the total amount awarded. Phase Two of the Youth Investment Fund is expected to open in summer 2022.</p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston grouped question UIN 21216 question first answered 28/06/2022 09:38:17 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
	tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

1471749

	registered interest
	date	20/06/2022
	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 Work: Training
	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 discussions officials in her Department have had with their counterparts in the Department for Education on the adequacy of youth work training places.
	tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
	tabling member printed	Cat Smith
	uin	21219
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2022 answer text <p>DCMS is the department responsible for the youth sector workforce and is committed to supporting its development. DCMS funds the National Youth Agency to set professional standards, qualifications and a curriculum for youth work, including a new youth work apprenticeship and free-to-access training. DCMS bursaries have fully-funded hundreds of individuals to gain youth work qualifications who otherwise may have been excluded due to cost.</p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 28/06/2022 11:11:22 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
	tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

1471748

	registered interest
	date	20/06/2022
	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 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, what plans she has for strengthening the duty on local authorities to provide youth work services.
	tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
	tabling member printed	Cat Smith
	uin	21218
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2022 answer text <p>DCMS officials are currently reviewing the statutory duty and its associated guidance to assess its effectiveness after a call for responses from key youth stakeholders. We will publish the outcomes of the review in due course.</p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 28/06/2022 09:40:51 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
	tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

1471750

	registered interest
	date	20/06/2022
	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: 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, what recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of long-term funding for youth services.
	tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
	tabling member printed	Cat Smith
	uin	21220
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2022 answer text <p>I refer the Hon. Member to the answer I gave on 28/04/22 to Question <a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2022-04-25/159010" target="_blank">159010</a>.</p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 28/06/2022 09:42:12 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
	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

1130137

	registered interest
	date	05/06/2019
	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
	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 Civil Society Strategy, what the timetable is for reviewing guidance on the statutory duties of local authorities to provide appropriate local youth services.
	tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
	tabling member printed	Cat Smith
	uin	260670
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2019 answer text <p>In August last year, my department published the Civil Society Strategy, in which the Government committed to review the guidance which sets out the statutory duty placed on local authorities to provide appropriate local youth services. An announcement will be made shortly. We expect that the review will provide greater clarity of Government’s expectations, including the value added by good youth work.</p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 10/06/2019 15:13:49 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

1143664

	registered interest
	date	02/09/2019
	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
	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 10 June 2019 to Question 260670 on Youth Services and with reference to her Department's announcement on 10 July 2019 that a public consultation would be held for 8 weeks from late July 2019, when the consultation will begin; and how the process will be taken forward.
	tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
	tabling member printed	Cat Smith
	uin	285331
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/10/2019 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.</p> answering member constituency Loughborough answering member printed Nicky Morgan question first answered 08/10/2019 16:34:06 answering member 4027 label Biography information for Baroness Morgan of Cotes
	tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

1471746

	registered interest
	date	20/06/2022
	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: Travellers
	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 funds allocated from the Youth Investment Fund have been to organisations working with Gypsy, Roma and/or Traveller communities.
	tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
	tabling member printed	Cat Smith
	uin	21216
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2022 answer text <p>Local Authorities have a statutory duty to secure sufficient youth services in line with local need. Before securing such services, local authorities are required to take steps to ascertain the views of young people in their area and must take those views into account when deciding on the services to be provided. Funding for these services come from the Local Government settlement, which was over £12 billion last year. DCMS are currently reviewing the guidance associated with the statutory duty.</p><p>DCMS funds Universal Youth Services that are open to all young people and is investing £560 million over the next 3 years in a new National Youth Guarantee, so that by 2025 every young person will have access to regular clubs and activities, adventures away from home and opportunities to volunteer.</p><p>Phase One of the Youth Investment Fund, administered by BBC Children in Need, has delivered £12 million of funding this year to over 400 local youth organisations in levelling up priority areas in England. Five organisations working with Gypsy, Roma and/or Traveller communities were awarded funding. The grants have a total value of £202,346 which represents 1.7% of the total amount awarded. Phase Two of the Youth Investment Fund is expected to open in summer 2022.</p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston grouped question UIN 21217 question first answered 28/06/2022 09:38:17 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
	tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

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

1259998

	registered interest
	date	10/12/2020
	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	When he plans to allocate the £500 million Youth Investment Fund.
	tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
	tabling member printed	Cat Smith
	uin	910137
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2020 answer text <p>The £500 million Youth Investment Fund remains a manifesto commitment for transformative levelling up across the country over the course of the parliament.</p><p> </p><p>£30 million of the fund was committed at the Spending Review as capital investment in youth services for 2021-22, which is on top of the £750 million charity funding package. This will provide an investment in new and refurbished spaces for young people, so they can access positive activities and support from youth workers.</p><p> </p><p>Further details of the timetable for allocation will be announced in due course, following a review of youth funding.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Boston and Skegness answering member printed Matt Warman question first answered 10/12/2020 16:08:44 answering member 4361 label Biography information for Matt Warman
	tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith