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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

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

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

1061235

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 on National Citizen Service Trust, whether delivery partners will still be paid for unfilled places under the new proposed contracts for 2019.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	221734
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2019 answer text <p>Some NCS Delivery Partners are not responsible for managing the recruitment of young people to their programmes. These Delivery Partners are generally small, local non-profit organisations, so in order to protect them from undue financial risk, once the number of places being commissioned is confirmed by NCS Trust, payment for these places will be guaranteed.</p><p><br> For provider contracts that begin in 2020, NCS Trust has re-designed the way its Management Partners will be paid, in order to significantly reduce the amount spent on places which are not filled.</p><p> </p><p>Delivery Partners managing their own recruitment are guaranteed payment for a proportion of their NCS commissioned places. This gives smaller, local organisations the financial security they need to get involved in NCS. The remaining places will only be paid for if they are filled. NCS Trust will only pay for unfilled places in a situation where a Delivery Partner does not recruit enough young people to cover the proportion of places that has been guaranteed. This allows NCS Trust to share risk with the youth and voluntary sector, so that small organisations can benefit from being part of the delivery chain.</p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 19/02/2019 12:43:53 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

1061256

registered interest
date	14/02/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Elections: Pilot Schemes
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Electoral Integrity Pilots Prospectus 2018, whether his Department has met its provisional timetable for finalising and approving the statutory orders for the 2019 electoral pilots; and if his Department will publish those statutory orders.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	221740
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2019 answer text <p>The British public deserves to have confidence in our democracy and the Government is committed to making sure that our electoral system is fit for the future.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Preparations for the 2019 voter ID pilots are on track and the pilot scheme orders are nearing completion. As with the 2018 pilot scheme orders they will be published on <a href="https://gov.uk/" target="_blank">GOV.UK</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The success of the voter ID pilots in May 2018 proves that voter ID is a reasonable and</p><p>proportionate measure. A diverse range of local authorities will be taking part in voter ID pilots for the 2019 local elections. The pilots will give us a deeper understanding of how voter ID might work on a wider scale and in different contexts, enabling us to identify what works best for voters.</p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 19/02/2019 12:25:12 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

1061270

registered interest
date	14/02/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Elections: Pilot Schemes
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Electoral Integrity Pilots Prospectus 2018, whether his Department produced templates for developing equality impact assessments to ensure consistency across all local authorities participating in the 2019 electoral pilots; and what steps his Department is taking to assess the potential effect on protected groups in the design and delivery of the pilots.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	221753
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2019 answer text <p>The British public deserves to have confidence in our democracy and the Government is committed to making sure that our electoral system is fit for the future.</p><p> </p><p>The success of the voter ID pilots in May last year proves that voter ID is a reasonable and proportionate measure. Based on the public opinion survey of the 2018 pilots there is no indication that the ID requirement impacted the intention to vote for any consistent specific demographic group across the 2018 pilot authorities.</p><p> </p><p>The local authorities taking part in the 2019 voter ID pilot scheme are conducting equality impact assessments to ensure that the potential impacts of the scheme on their voters are understood, and that mechanisms to support voters can be put in place where necessary. That work is supported by the Cabinet Office.</p><p> </p><p>We take seriously the importance of Public Sector Equality Duty compliance at every stage of policy development and are engaging with the Equality and Human Rights Commission and a broad range of charities and civil society organisations to ensure that the overall policy reflects the needs of all voters in the UK.</p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 19/02/2019 12:21:54 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

1061314

registered interest
date	14/02/2019
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Members: Correspondence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what her Department's average response time is for replying to Hon. Members' letters about constituency matters.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	221774
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2019 answer text <p>Information about the performance of Departments and Agencies on handling correspondence from Members is published annually by way of a written statement by the Cabinet Office.</p><p> </p><p>The statement covering the most recent available information, that for 2017, was made on 26 June 2018, Official Record Vol. 643 HCWS22.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 19/02/2019 15:02:09 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

1061329

registered interest
date	14/02/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	High Speed 2 Line: Lancaster
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will meet with the Hon. Member for Lancaster and Fleetwood and a delegation of Lancaster business leaders on HS2 and Lancaster.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	221779
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2019 answer text <p>I understand the importance of HS2 serving the North West. Lancaster will be served from Birmingham in the full HS2 Y network in 2033, as per the central case indicative train service specification in the Phase 2 Economic Case published in June 2017. On 12 February, my Written Ministerial Statement informed the House that the second additional provision to the High Speed Rail (West Midlands - Crewe) Bill includes works at and around Crewe station including the extension of platform 5 to accommodate 400-metre HS2 trains. As well as supporting the Crewe hub vision, this could enable direct services between London and Lancaster bringing additional benefits six years earlier in 2027. Work is currently assessing whether it is possible to extend the services and I would be happy to provide an update in due course</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 22/02/2019 13:12:09 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

1060644

registered interest
date	13/02/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Enterprise Investment Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether community benefit societies are eligible for the enterprise investment scheme.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	220944
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2019 answer text <p>Community Benefit Societies are eligible to receive investments under the Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS), subject to meeting all the EIS rules. The rules include a requirement for the company to trade commercially with a view to profit, including where the company intends to use its profits to benefit the community.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 22/02/2019 12:10:28 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith