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1064329

	registered interest
	date	20/02/2019
	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 many teenagers have (a) commenced and (b) graduated a National Citizenship Service programme in each of the last four years; and what the Government's target was for participation in that programme since 2011.
	tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
	tabling member printed	Cat Smith
	uin	223803
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2019 answer text <table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2011</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2017</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2018</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Govt target</strong><sup>1</sup></p></td><td><p>10,000</p></td><td><p>30,000</p></td><td><p>50,000</p></td><td><p>66,433</p></td><td><p>90,000</p></td><td><p>100,000</p></td><td><p>101,000</p></td><td><p>100,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Annual participants</strong></p></td><td><p>8,434</p></td><td><p>26,003</p></td><td><p>39,566</p></td><td><p>57,789</p></td><td><p>75,605</p></td><td><p>92,996</p></td><td><p>99,179</p></td><td><p>TBC<sup>2</sup></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Completed</strong></p></td><td><p>7,140</p></td><td><p>22,245</p></td><td><p>37,266</p></td><td><p>51,512</p></td><td><p>68,762</p></td><td><p>87,266</p></td><td><p>90,010</p></td><td><p>TBC<sup>2</sup></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><sup>1 </sup>Government targets are for participation, not completion.</p><p><sup>2</sup> Final participation figures for 2018 will be confirmed in due course.</p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 25/02/2019 16:12:07 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

1092654

	registered interest
	date	21/03/2019
	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 source of funding is for the £10 million brand refresh for the National Citizen Service; and whether he can confirm that no government funding will be spent on this contract.
	tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
	tabling member printed	Cat Smith
	uin	235376
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2019 answer text <p>To date, over 500,000 young people have taken part in the NCS programme. The most recently published evaluation has found that 82% of young people felt more positive about people from different backgrounds, and participants are more likely to use their time to help others after NCS<sup><sup>[1]</sup></sup>. Marketing is a key recruitment driver for NCS, ensuring that more young people across the country benefit from the programme.</p><p> </p><p>The brand refresh is one part of the overall marketing and creative services tender which includes communications planning, creative strategy, brand platform, experience, advertising campaign development, and content production. The £10m figure was stated in a NCS Trust procurement document as an upper limit over 4 years. The actual cost of the contract is likely to be around £1m per year, for 4 years of the contract.</p><p> </p><p>The NCS Trust is forecast to self-generate c. £3m income in the upcoming financial year. The brand refresh element of the marketing and creative services contract in question will be paid from those funds and we can confirm that no government funding will be spent on this element of the contract. The remainder of the contract will be funded by Government funding.</p><p> </p><p><sup><sup>[1]</sup></sup> This figure is based on the 2016 programme evaluation, which can be found <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-citizen-service-evaluation-report-2016" target="_blank">here</a>. The 2017 evaluation report is currently being finalised.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 26/03/2019 13:42:17 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

1109982

	registered interest
	date	05/04/2019
	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, pursuant to the Answer 4 Apr 2019 to Question 238657 on Voluntary Work: Young People, whether the maximum budget allocated to NCS was lowered when the maximum participation ceiling allocated to NCS was revised downwards in the 2017 revised Spending Review.
	tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
	tabling member printed	Cat Smith
	uin	241448
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/04/2019 answer text <p>The maximum budget available for NCS was lowered in line with the lowered participation ceiling in the 2017 revised Spending Review settlement.</p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 10/04/2019 11:18:47 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

1061133

	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	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, how much public money has been allocated to uniformed youth organisations in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
	tabling member printed	Cat Smith
	uin	221692
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2019 answer text <p>The information requested is not all held centrally. In January 2015, a list showing grant schemes run by central government since the 2013 to 2014 financial year was published on GOV.UK, and subsequently annually updated. It can be found at the following link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/government-grants-register" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/government-grants-register</a>.</p><p> </p><p>This government has invested £5 million in 2018-19 in supporting uniformed youth organisations to engage thousands of disadvantaged young people in areas of deprivation across the country, improving their wellbeing, mental health and life skills. Details of the funding announced to date can be found at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/thousands-to-benefit-from-multi-million-pound-boost-to-youth-organisations" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/news/thousands-to-benefit-from-multi-million-pound-boost-to-youth-organisations</a> .</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 19/02/2019 12:42:42 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

1107804

	registered interest
	date	29/03/2019
	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, pursuant to the Answer of 25 Feb 2019 to Question 223803, what the final (a) participation and (b) completion figures for the National Citizenship Service programme were for 2018; and if will publish the (i) original and (ii) revised Government targets for each year since 2011.
	tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
	tabling member printed	Cat Smith
	uin	238657
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/04/2019 answer text <p>The final participation and completion figures for the National Citizen Service programme in 2018 are undergoing compliance checks and will be published on gov.uk once they are finalised.</p><p> </p><p>Government targets have been agreed annually between the sponsoring Government Department and the NCS Trust in line with NCS Trust projections of demand. The table attached shows annual targets and participation ceilings.</p><p> </p><p>A maximum participation ceiling was allocated to NCS in the 2015 Spending Review to ensure that no young people were turned away from the programme. This was not a participation target. The ceiling was revised downwards in the 2017 revised Spending Review settlement.</p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 04/04/2019 16:03:45 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies attachment 1 file name Annual target data.pdf title Annual Target Data
	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

1077605

	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	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, pursuant to the Answer of 25 February 2019 to Question 223803 on Voluntary Work: Young People, if the Government will publish the (a) annual and (b) completed participation figures for 2018 once they are confirmed.
	tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
	tabling member printed	Cat Smith
	uin	226156
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2019 answer text <p>The Government will publish the annual and completed NCS 2018 participation figures on gov.uk once they are confirmed.</p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 04/03/2019 14:55:19 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

1133010

	registered interest
	date	18/06/2019
	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	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, pursuant to the Answer of 4 March 2019 to Question 226156, what the Government's timeframe is for publication of the National Citizen Service 2018 participation figures.
	tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
	tabling member printed	Cat Smith
	uin	266287
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2019 answer text <p>The Government will publish the NCS 2018 participation figures on gov.uk by autumn 2019.</p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 24/06/2019 13:30:53 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

1063984

	registered interest
	date	19/02/2019
	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	Youth Work: Standards
	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 progress the Government has made on the renewal of the National Occupational Standards for Youth Work which expire in 2020.
	tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
	tabling member printed	Cat Smith
	uin	223181
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2019 answer text <p>The Government recognises the value of good youth work, this was underlined in the Civil Society Strategy published in August last year. We are aware that the National Occupational Standards are set to expire in 2020 and are discussing this with youth sector organisations.</p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 25/02/2019 16:16:30 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

1133009

	registered interest
	date	18/06/2019
	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	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, pursuant to the Answer of 25 February 2019 to Question 223803, what proportion of young people who participated and completed National Citizen Service in each year since 2011 were not in education, employment or training.
	tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
	tabling member printed	Cat Smith
	uin	266286
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2019 answer text <p>The Government does not currently collect data about the number of young people who participated in NCS who were not in education, employment or training. The Government does disaggregate NCS participant data by: black, asian and minority ethnic (BAME), minority religion, special educational needs and disability (SEND), free school meals (FSM) and young people in care.</p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 24/06/2019 13:29:40 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith