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	registered interest
	date	01/11/2018
	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	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport: Civil Society
	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 takes to incorporate big society or civic society considerations into its policy formulation process.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	186968
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/11/2018 answer text <p>We published the Civil Society Strategy in August 2018. This sets out government's vision for how it will work with and for civil society to address social challenges and create a fairer society for all. In creating the Strategy we engaged widely with central government departments and it includes statements from ten government ministers.</p><p> </p><p>At a departmental level my officials work closely with civil society stakeholders when developing policy, and will continue to work with them in delivering the strategy.</p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 08/11/2018 10:25:31 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

1077634

	registered interest
	date	26/02/2019
	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	Leisure: 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 estimate he has made of the number of local authorities in England and Wales that have been unable to meet their statutory duty to provide user-led recreational leisure activities for young people in each of the last eight years.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	226064
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2019 answer text <p>My department is responsible for Section 507b of the 1996 Education Act that states that: “every local authority in England must, so far as reasonably practicable, secure for qualifying young persons in the authority’s area access to sufficient educational and recreational activities.”</p><p> </p><p>During the last eight years no one has sought to make the case to me or my Department that any local authority is in formal breach of this duty. The guidance, which sets out how this this statutory duty could be discharged, has not been revised since 2012 and in the Civil Society Strategy published last August we committed to review it. We will make a further announcement about our plans to do that in due course.</p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 04/03/2019 14:58:39 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

1008447

	registered interest
	date	16/11/2018
	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	Loneliness
	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 Government's press release entitled PM launches Government’s first loneliness strategy, published on 15 October 2018, whether his Department has conducted a loneliness policy test on Budget 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	192092
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2018 answer text <p>There was no requirement on HM Treasury to consider loneliness in developing Budget 2018. The cross-government loneliness team will work with HM Treasury, as with other departments, to explore how social relationships can be considered across their policy-making in future, as recently set out in the first loneliness strategy for England, ‘A connected society’.</p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 21/11/2018 18:41:35 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane