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1259998

	registered interest
	date	10/12/2020
	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 Investment Fund
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	When he plans to allocate the £500 million Youth Investment Fund.
	tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
	tabling member printed	Cat Smith
	uin	910137
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2020 answer text <p>The £500 million Youth Investment Fund remains a manifesto commitment for transformative levelling up across the country over the course of the parliament.</p><p> </p><p>£30 million of the fund was committed at the Spending Review as capital investment in youth services for 2021-22, which is on top of the £750 million charity funding package. This will provide an investment in new and refurbished spaces for young people, so they can access positive activities and support from youth workers.</p><p> </p><p>Further details of the timetable for allocation will be announced in due course, following a review of youth funding.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Boston and Skegness answering member printed Matt Warman question first answered 10/12/2020 16:08:44 answering member 4361 label Biography information for Matt Warman
	tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

1307202

	registered interest
	date	12/04/2021
	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	UK Youth Parliament: Operating Costs
	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 his Department calculated the running costs of the UK Youth Parliament in preparation for the 2021-22 Grant.
	tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
	tabling member printed	Cat Smith
	uin	179206
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2021 answer text <p>HM Government’s core funding for the UK Youth Parliament in 2021/22 remains at the same level as the previous two years. Additional funding has been made available in 2021/22 to continue enabling UK-wide participation in this programme.</p> answering member constituency Boston and Skegness answering member printed Matt Warman question first answered 20/04/2021 10:21:15 answering member 4361 label Biography information for Matt Warman
	tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

1307203

	registered interest
	date	12/04/2021
	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	UK Youth Parliament
	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 assessment the Government has made of whether obtaining commercial sponsorship for the UK Youth Parliament is (a) achievable and (b) desirable.
	tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
	tabling member printed	Cat Smith
	uin	179207
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2021 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p>DCMS did not seek commercial sponsorship for the UK Youth Parliament. The grant competition for the 2021/22 UK Youth Parliament programme was open to charitable, benevolent and philanthropic organisations.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>For DCMS grant competitions, an organisation's ability to bring in additional resources, for example by creating delivery efficiencies with partner organisations or through match funding may be considered as part of the assessment criteria. In the 2021/22 UK Youth Parliament grant competition, an organisation’s ability to bring in additional resource was considered. Applicants to the grant competition were invited to demonstrate how they would be able to secure external funding and partnerships to supplement the DCMS grant.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Boston and Skegness answering member printed Matt Warman question first answered 20/04/2021 10:22:38 answering member 4361 label Biography information for Matt Warman
	tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

1308579

	registered interest
	date	13/04/2021
	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 budget of the National Citizen Service was spent on advertising and marketing in 2019-20.
	tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
	tabling member printed	Cat Smith
	uin	180549
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2021 answer text <p>As detailed in the National Citizen Service Trust’s Annual Report 2019/20, ‘Communication, Marketing and Media Costs’ totalled £7,099,000. This accounts for circa 4.5% of the total expenditure of the National Citizen Service Trust for 2019/20, which was £156,384,000.</p> answering member constituency Boston and Skegness answering member printed Matt Warman question first answered 19/04/2021 10:45:18 answering member 4361 label Biography information for Matt Warman
	tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

1308580

	registered interest
	date	13/04/2021
	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 people completed the National Citizens Service programme in (a) 2018-19 and (b) 2019-20.
	tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
	tabling member printed	Cat Smith
	uin	180550
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2021 answer text <p>The total number of core NCS participants in 2018/19 was 99,674 (NCST Annual Report, 2018/19). The total number of core NCS participants in 2019/20 was 92,041 (NCST Annual Report, 2019/20).</p> answering member constituency Boston and Skegness answering member printed Matt Warman question first answered 19/04/2021 10:41:43 answering member 4361 label Biography information for Matt Warman
	tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

1309852

	registered interest
	date	16/04/2021
	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: Costs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if he will publish the full cost of unrecovered monies spent on the National Citizens Services in 2019-20.
	tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
	tabling member printed	Cat Smith
	uin	182066
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/04/2021 answer text <p>The NCS programme is delivered by the National Citizen Service Trust, whose annual report and financial statements for the financial year 2019/20 are publicly available. NCST received a £158.6m grant-in-aid from DCMS in 2019/20. Other income amounted to £3.54m and total expenditure for the year was £156.4m.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>As noted in NCST’s 2019/20 Annual Report, the Summer 2020 NCS Programme was officially cancelled because of Covid-19 on 7 April 2020, by which point NCST had paid out £3.6m worth of non-refundable deposits to 44 accommodation venues. A further three accommodation suppliers were further due £3.8m in non-refundable deposits.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>These payments were disclosed as events after the reporting date in NCST’s 2019/20 accounts but will be accounted for in 2020-21 accounts because accommodation costs are treated as prepayments. As well as settling contractual commitments for 2020 accommodation, NCST was also able to negotiate, at no additional cost, a break from the second and third year of multi-year accommodation contracts, thereby reducing the future accommodation costs for NCST and the taxpayer.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Covid-19 restrictions meant that NCST was unable to offer its usual residential programme in 2020 but NCST worked with its core programme providers to repurpose the funds already committed to deliver an alternative programme, including digital content, volunteering opportunities and support within schools and colleges. Additionally, service user contributions received by NCST for young people to attend the Summer 2020 programme were refunded.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Boston and Skegness answering member printed Matt Warman question first answered 21/04/2021 10:31:04 answering member 4361 label Biography information for Matt Warman
	tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

1309854

	registered interest
	date	16/04/2021
	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: Costs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if he will publish the full cost of the unfilled places of the National Citizens Service in 2019-20.
	tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
	tabling member printed	Cat Smith
	uin	182067
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/04/2021 answer text <p>As detailed in the National Citizen Service Trust’s Annual Report for the financial year 2019/20, the impact of Covid-19 has meant that NCST are unable to calculate standard value for money metrics on a financial year basis due to the cancellation of the Summer 2020 programme. Instead, NCST measured their performance on cost of unfilled places on a calendar year basis.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>As stated in NCST’s Annual Report 2019/20, costs of unfilled places fell year on year from £9.5m in 2018 to £5.0m in 2019. This spend went to NCST’s network of Delivery Partners (mostly made up of non-profit youth sector organisations), who the Trust gives part of their revenue upfront to support preparatory activities such as running recruitment events and hiring programme staff.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The revised supplier contracts from 2020 onwards have been designed to minimise the risks of the Trust paying for places which are not filled in future. Furthermore, centralised booking of accommodation will enable the Trust to improve payment terms and minimise unfilled bed costs.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Boston and Skegness answering member printed Matt Warman question first answered 21/04/2021 10:32:48 answering member 4361 label Biography information for Matt Warman
	tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

1310557

	registered interest
	date	20/04/2021
	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 young people have (a) commenced and (b) graduated from a National Citizenship Service (NCS) programme in (a) 2018-19 and (b) 2019-20; and what the Government's target for participation in the NCS was in each of those years.
	tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
	tabling member printed	Cat Smith
	uin	184499
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2021 answer text <p>As per National Citizen Service Trust’s 2018/19 Annual Report, 99,674 young people took part in the NCS programme in the 2018 calendar year (England only) with a completion rate of 93%. This compares to a target of 100,000 young people for the calendar year 2018.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>In the 2019 calendar year, 92,041 young people took part in the NCS programme. This figure includes 552 young people who participated in the Spring 2019 cohort but were excluded from NCST’s 2019/20 Annual Report (which covers the April 2019 to March 2020 financial year). The target for 2019/20 was set for the financial, rather than calendar year and was for at least 100,000 young people to take part in NCS.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The completion rate for 2019 was 88% for the calendar year. Two key factors contributed to this lower participation rate in comparison to 2018:</p><ul><li><p>Significant underperformance of one of the largest providers of NCS at the time - they exited the network at the end of 2019.</p></li><li><p>A tightening of criteria around what constitutes a &quot;graduate&quot; from the NCS programmes on the back of process reviews and systems changes that took effect from Spring 2019.</p></li></ul><p> </p> answering member constituency Boston and Skegness answering member printed Matt Warman question first answered 26/04/2021 13:59:43 answering member 4361 label Biography information for Matt Warman
	tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

1311015

	registered interest
	date	21/04/2021
	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 13 April 2021 to Question 180550, if he will review the Answer to that question in the context of the NCST Annual Report 2019-20's statement that the total number of core participants in financial year 2019-20 was 91,489.
	tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
	tabling member printed	Cat Smith
	uin	185406
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2021 answer text <p>The total number of core National Citizen Service participants across the Spring, Summer and Autumn programmes in 2019 was 92,041. The figure of 91,489 participants referred to in the National Citizen Service Trust’s Annual Report 2019/20 is on a financial year basis and thus covers the Summer and Autumn programmes only, excluding 552 participants in the Spring 2019 programme.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The participation numbers were reported on a calendar year basis in the 2018/19 Annual Report but reporting practices changed when the NCS became a Royal Charter Body in December 2019. Accordingly, participation KPIs for the 2019/20 Annual Report were reported on a financial year basis.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Boston and Skegness answering member printed Matt Warman question first answered 26/04/2021 13:45:02 answering member 4361 label Biography information for Matt Warman
	tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

1311481

	registered interest
	date	22/04/2021
	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 Answer of 19 April to Question 180550, on voluntary work, (a) what is the definition of a core participant; and (b) what proportion of core participants completed the whole NCS programme from start to finish.
	tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
	tabling member printed	Cat Smith
	uin	185962
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2021 answer text <p>Core participant numbers reflect the young people who took part in the part-residential NCS programme during the relevant seasons. Participation numbers in other NCS activities are not counted towards this figure.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>For section (b) of this Question, please refer to my answer to Question 184499.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Boston and Skegness answering member printed Matt Warman question first answered 27/04/2021 13:13:16 answering member 4361 label Biography information for Matt Warman
	tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith