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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

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

1061131

	registered interest
	date	14/02/2019
	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, what the annual participation targets are for the National Citizen Service to 2020-21.
	tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
	tabling member printed	Cat Smith
	uin	221691
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2019 answer text <p>Ministers confirm the annual participation target for the NCS programme alongside the approval of the yearly budget for the NCS Trust. For 2018/19, Ministers agreed a target of over 100,000 participants.</p><p> </p><p>The budget and participation target for 2019/20 are not due to be agreed until March 2019. The target for financial year 2020/21 will not be agreed until March 2020.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 19/02/2019 12:33:05 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

1061165

	registered interest
	date	14/02/2019
	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, whether he (a) has received representations and (b) holds information on changes to the commissioning and procurement procedure by the National Citizen Service Trust in identifying delivery partners and subcontracted partners in the English regions to which it plans to deliver directly; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
	tabling member printed	Cat Smith
	uin	221695
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2019 answer text <p>Ministers have not received representations on changes to the commissioning and procurement procedure by NCS Trust in the regions it plans to deliver directly.</p><p> </p><p>NCS Trust is running its Recommissioning Programme to execute a revised delivery model for the NCS, in order to help it meet its objectives. Central to this model is the procurement of three different types of partner organisations that together will enable the delivery of the NCS programme from start to finish. Officials in DCMS are working closely with colleagues in the NCS Trust to make sure the Recommissioning Programme is successful.</p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 19/02/2019 12:38:19 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

1061166

	registered interest
	date	14/02/2019
	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	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 23 April 2018 to Question 135849, what recent steps he has taken to reduce the amount spent on unfilled places.
	tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
	tabling member printed	Cat Smith
	uin	221696
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2019 answer text <p>NCS Trust has regular checkpoints planned with its Delivery Partners to discuss their forecast performance in 2019 and make adjustments to the number of places commissioned where appropriate, in order to minimise spend on unfilled places</p><p><br> For provider contracts that begin in 2020, NCS Trust has re-designed the way its outsourced regional Management Partners will be paid, in order to significantly reduce the amount spent on places which are not filled. <br> <br> In areas where NCS Trust will be providing the regional management function itself, flexibility has been created within its contracts with Delivery Partners to confirm participant numbers for each season at a later point in the year. This will allow NCS Trust to make an assessment of the level of demand for NCS places, based on the number of young people who have signed up, ensuring an accurate number are commissioned. The aim of this approach is to use performance data in-season to better align the supply and demand for NCS places, minimising the number which are paid for but not filled.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 19/02/2019 12:40:04 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

756681

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2017
	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	Parliamentary Proceedings: Radio
	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 discussions the Government has had with the BBC on broadcasting parliamentary proceedings on the radio.
	tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
	tabling member printed	Cat Smith
	uin	7716
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2017 answer text <p>The BBC broadcasts weekly and daily summaries of Westminster parliamentary activity on Radio 4. The BBC is operationally and editorially independent of government and coverage of parliamentary proceedings is a matter for the BBC. The government therefore has had no recent discussions with the BBC on broadcasting parliamentary proceedings on the radio.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 12/09/2017 15:41:10 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

756683

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2017
	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, when the Government plans to respond to the Public Accounts Committee report of 14 March 2017, National Citizen Service, HC955, Session 2016-17; and what the reason is for the time taken so far to respond to that report.
	tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
	tabling member printed	Cat Smith
	uin	7717
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2017 answer text <p>Government’s response to the Public Accounts Committee Report on National Citizen Service is in the form of a Treasury Minute. Due to the Parliamentary timetable, the publication of the Minute has been postponed until October.</p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 12/09/2017 16:48:47 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
	tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

756684

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2017
	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, when the Government plans to report on its review into full-time youth volunteering; and what the reason is for the time taken to publish that report.
	tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
	tabling member printed	Cat Smith
	uin	7718
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2017 answer text <p>The Full Time Social Action Review is an independent review chaired by Steve Holliday. The Review is currently gathering evidence and intends to report in December 2017.</p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 12/09/2017 11:13:12 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
	tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

756685

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2017
	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: Directors
	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 policy is on targeting recruitment of new board members for the National Citizen Service at young people; and when the next recruitment of board members for that service is due to take place.
	tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
	tabling member printed	Cat Smith
	uin	7719
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2017 answer text <p>The NCS Trust is currently a Community Interest Company and is therefore responsible for its own Board recruitment.</p><p> </p><p>The Department for Culture, Media and Sport is currently advertising for board members for the new NCS Royal Charter body. The vacancies have been advertised through various channels, including the NCS Twitter page, Generation Change, Step Up to Serve, and the British Youth Council, as well as on the public appointments website at www.publicappointments.cabinetoffice.gov.uk.</p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 12/09/2017 11:16:34 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
	tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

756686

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2017
	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	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 it is the Government's policy to deliver a three year youth policy statement; when she plans to announce her priorities and plans for youth policy; and what the reason is for the time taken for the Government to deliver that statement.
	tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
	tabling member printed	Cat Smith
	uin	7728
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2017 answer text <p>DCMS conducted a series of regional workshops in March and April to discuss current issues for youth policy with representatives from the youth sector, local authorities and young people. The evidence gathered is being used by the Office for Civil Society across their youth policy work.</p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 12/09/2017 16:45:04 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
	tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith