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964403

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date	03/09/2018
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	Loneliness: 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 has made an assessment of the effect of open access youth work on tackling loneliness in young people; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	169483
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2018 answer text <p>Loneliness can affect people at any age. Several studies, most recently by the Office of National Statistics, have found that younger adults aged 16 to 24 are at particular risk of feeling lonely more often.</p><p> </p><p>Open access youth work provides safe spaces and trusted people to talk to, therefore government believes this can have a positive impact on tackling loneliness amongst young people.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 11/09/2018 13:48:27 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

964406

registered interest
date	03/09/2018
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, with reference to the Figure 11 – Volunteering Schemes – International Comparators (2016) and the conclusion on page 16 of Cost Benchmark Report National Citizen Service Final Report, published on 7 February 2018, what the average daily cost per participant to deliver the NCS programme was for (a) Service Civique; (b) Voluntary Social Year (FSJ) + Federal Volunteer Service; and (c) AmeriCorps (State & National).
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	169485
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2018 answer text <p>The French, German and US schemes referred to in the Cost Benchmark Report do not deliver the NCS programme. These schemes are used to compare the cost of the NCS programme with other international youth programmes. The report finds that overall programme costs of NCS are significantly lower than those of these international comparators, although meaningful comparison is difficult as NCS is delivered in an intensive, 3-4 week programme, and these international schemes are delivered over an extended period, varying between 3-18 months and with varying levels of time commitment. These schemes also include direct and indirect payments to participants.</p><p> </p><p>DCMS and the NCS Trust are committed to further improving the value for money and reducing the unit cost of the NCS programme. A key opportunity to achieve this is the recommissioning of the NCS provider contracts from 2019 onwards.</p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 06/09/2018 11:04:31 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

964907

registered interest
date	03/09/2018
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	Youth Work: Higher Education
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 he has made of trends in the level of youth work courses offered by higher education institutions; and what steps he is taking with the Secretary of State for Education to encourage more students to take up those courses in higher education.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	169504
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2018 answer text <p>The Department for Education holds the responsibility for encouraging students to take up courses offered by higher education institutions and it is the responsibility of Universities and Colleges to offer higher education courses in response to the need and demand of learners.</p><p> </p><p>Government recognises the value higher education plays in young people’s lives and acknowledges how formal and informal educational opportunities work together to improve outcomes and opportunities for learners.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 11/09/2018 13:49:41 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

964911

registered interest
date	03/09/2018
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	Citizens' Assemblies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, when the Government plans to introduce its Innovation in Democracy pilots; and what steps he is taking to ensure that pilots relating to (a) citizens’ juries and (b) other forms of face-to-face deliberation are representative of the areas in which they take place.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	169506
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2018 answer text <p>The Innovation in Democracy Programme (IiDP) will involve citizens in decision making at local government level through innovative models of participatory democracy and will be launching in late 2018.</p><p> </p><p>Participating local authorities will be piloting Citizens’ Juries to open up a decision they have to make to citizen deliberation. One of the key elements of a Citizens’ Jury is that they are made up of a random selection of the local population accounting for age, ethnicity, gender and potentially other characteristics. This means that the Jury is truly representative of the demographics of the area in which it takes place. The Local Authorities will be supported in this by a Democracy Support Contractor (to be appointed) who will assist them in designing and implementing a process that works for their context, as well as funding to cover costs.</p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 11/09/2018 13:53:48 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

964932

registered interest
date	03/09/2018
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 steps the Government is taking to ensure that all Government departments uphold their commitment to ensure that young people are systematically involved in shaping the policies that affect them as outlined in the recently published Civil Society Strategy.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	169508
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2018 answer text <p>DCMS regularly consults with other government departments on policy areas affecting young people, including on the Civil Society Strategy, to ensure a joined-up approach to policy making.</p><p> </p><p>DCMS is leading the way in enabling effective youth participation in national policy making and the department is pioneering approaches which can be adopted across government. These include a Civil Society Youth Steering Group to oversee the development and implementation of policies affecting young people in the Civil Society Strategy; a national Young Commissioners and Inspectors Group to involve young people directly and meaningfully in the commissioning, monitoring and evaluation of national programmes affecting young people; a new digital solution to enable large numbers of young people to play a role in consultations and programme design across the government.</p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 06/09/2018 11:05:44 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith