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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

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

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

982540

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: 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 steps his Department is taking to help ensure adequate funding for youth organisations.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	176383
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/10/2018 answer text <p>Local authorities are responsible for allocating public funding to youth services in their area. We believe they are best placed to know what is required in their communities.</p><p> </p><p>Alongside this, we are investing in youth organisations in a number of ways including:</p><ul><li>National Citizen Service (over £1bn has been allocated to NCS between 15/16 and 19/20) which is delivered via a supply chain network of over 100 organisations, including many youth organisations;</li><li>Creating a new, independent organisation that will administer a £90m fund using money from dormant accounts to address barriers to employment for young people, in areas of significant racial disparity. We have released £1.2m of this funding [today] to boost the capacity of vital grass-roots youth organisations working with young people in three areas of the country who are not in education, employment or training;</li><li>Up to £80 million (in partnership with Big Lottery Fund) through the Youth Investment and #iwill Funds in voluntary and community organisations that work with young people; and</li><li>The £2m Building Connections Fund, in partnership with the Co-op Foundation, which is available to youth organisations helping to support young people to avoid long-term loneliness.</li></ul> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 11/10/2018 15:20:13 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

969173

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, what steps the Government took to actively encourage young people to apply to be a board member for the National Citizen Service Trust; and how many of those positions will be reserved for young people.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	171437
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2018 answer text <p>DCMS endeavour to ensure that a diverse field of candidates apply to Public Appointments campaigns in order to meet the requirements of the Public Sector Equality Duty. As a result, Ministers are presented with a choice of appointable candidates whose skills, experience and qualities meet the needs of the required roles</p><p><br> The NCS Trust board member roles were advertised on the Cabinet Office Public Appointments website, the NCS Trust website and other channels and networks used for DCMS appointments, as well as on social media. Given the need to fill multiple Board positions, and the importance of attracting a diverse pool of applicants, we worked closely with the NCS Trust to identify a variety of other channels specific to the requirements of these roles and to endeavour to attract a diverse field of candidates</p><p><br> In addition, NCS Trust has an extensive national youth board network, via which the views of young people across the country are heard at all levels across the NCS Trust. Representatives from the youth board regularly attend the full Board meetings.</p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 11/09/2018 13:10:39 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

969185

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	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how much the Government has spent on independent evaluations of the National Citizen Service programme since the launch of that programme.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	171446
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2018 answer text <p>Departmental records show that £3,330,000 has been allocated to evaluation since the creation of the National Citizen Service in 2011.</p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 11/09/2018 13:28:40 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

969198

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: Royal Charters
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, what the timescale is for launching the NCS Trust Royal Charter body.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	171456
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2018 answer text <p>We expect the NCS Trust Royal Charter body to launch on 1st December 2018, subject to the completion of the ongoing Board member recruitment campaign. The new Royal Charter body Chair, Brett Wigdortz, was announced in July this year.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 13/09/2018 15:29:18 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

969213

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	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what proportion of funding for the National Citizen Service was spent on frontline delivery in each of the last three financial years.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	171471
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2018 answer text <p>Grant funding provided to the NCS Trust for the delivery of the NCS programme in each of the last three financial years is set out below.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>2015/16</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016/17</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2017/18</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total grant funding (£M)</p></td><td><p>155</p></td><td><p>181</p></td><td><p>181</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Although it is not possible to separate out figures for frontline costs from overall running costs, the NCS Cost Benchmark Report, released in February 2018, analyses the operational delivery cost of the four phases of the programme. The report found that the average costs per young person for each of the core phases of the programme compare well to the costs that would be incurred by separately procuring these at market rates.</p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 13/09/2018 16:05:08 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

969216

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 163141 on National Citizen Service Trust, whether the contracts with National Citizen Service providers included a provision for the repayment of funding by the provider in the event of unfilled places.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	171474
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2018 answer text <p>Pursuant to my answer of 19 July, current contracts with providers of the NCS programme do not include provision for repayment of funding in the event of unfilled places. However, the NCS Trust does recover all advance payments to providers that are not spent on delivering the NCS programme.</p><p> </p><p>Reducing the risk of unfilled places is a priority for DCMS. The NCS Trust with DCMS support, are developing measures to improve the quality and flexibility of the commissioning model; enabling changes which will allow participation volumes to flex throughout the year in response to demand and so bring down the number of unfilled places.</p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 13/09/2018 15:33:29 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith