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registered interest
date	22/10/2019
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, what assessment she has made of the validity of the decision by the National Citizen Service Trust to withdraw NCS contracts from The Challenge; and what steps her Department and the Cabinet Office plan to take to help (a) resolve those issues that The Challenge reportedly raised with her Department on the National Citizen Service Trust before the withdrawal of its contracts and (b) maintain NCS (i) jobs and (ii) places.
tabling member constituency	Streatham
tabling member printed	Chuka Umunna
uin	3656
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2019 answer text <p>The NCS Trust are the contracting authority for the NCS programme and have operational accountability for the NCS delivery chain. As such, procurement issues are a contractual matter between the NCS Trust and The Challenge, with DCMS being regularly informed. The procurement process for the re-commissioning of NCS contracts, carried out by the NCS Trust in 2019, was approved by both DCMS and HMT.</p><p> </p><p>In regards to the issues raised by The Challenge, NCS Trust is an arms-length body of DCMS and, in line with standard complaint procedures, DCMS is investigating the matters raised and will address any findings as appropriate.</p><p> </p><p>All NCS delivery regions have been successfully contracted for, to make sure there is minimal loss in NCS participation levels from 2020 onwards.</p> answering member constituency Loughborough answering member printed Nicky Morgan question first answered 30/10/2019 10:46:58 answering member 4027 label Biography information for Baroness Morgan of Cotes
tabling member	4128 label Biography information for Chuka Umunna

1150861

registered interest
date	21/10/2019
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, when she or her Department was made aware of the contractual dispute between NCS Trust and the largest provider of National Citizen Service, The Challenge.
tabling member constituency	Streatham
tabling member printed	Chuka Umunna
uin	2742
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2019 answer text <p>The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport were formally made aware of the contractual dispute between NCS and The Challenge on 15th July when a letter of complaint was sent from Bill Ronald (CEO of The Challenge) to the DCMS Secretary of State.</p> answering member constituency Loughborough answering member printed Nicky Morgan question first answered 29/10/2019 13:09:47 answering member 4027 label Biography information for Baroness Morgan of Cotes
tabling member	4128 label Biography information for Chuka Umunna

1150862

registered interest
date	21/10/2019
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, when the internal investigation into complaints regarding NCS Trust will be concluded; and if she will publish the findings of that investigation.
tabling member constituency	Streatham
tabling member printed	Chuka Umunna
uin	2743
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2019 answer text <p>In line with standard complaint procedures, we are investigating the complaints raised by The Challenge against the NCS Trust and will address any findings as appropriate. The investigation is ongoing.</p><p> </p><p>DCMS will let both parties know the result of the investigation when it has concluded.</p> answering member constituency Loughborough answering member printed Nicky Morgan question first answered 29/10/2019 13:10:56 answering member 4027 label Biography information for Baroness Morgan of Cotes
tabling member	4128 label Biography information for Chuka Umunna

1150863

registered interest
date	21/10/2019
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, what progress NCS Trust has made on addressing the governance issues raised in reports by the Public Accounts Committtee and National Audit Office.
tabling member constituency	Streatham
tabling member printed	Chuka Umunna
uin	2744
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2019 answer text <p>In response to the governance issues raised in reports by the Public Accounts Committee and the National Audit Office, DCMS, together with the NCS Trust, have made the following progress:</p><p> </p><ul><li>The NCS Trust transitioned from a Community Interest Company to a Royal Charter body (RCB), in accordance with the NCS Act, on 01 December 2018. This made the NCS Trust an Arm’s Length Body (ALB) of DCMS. The ALB relationship means that the NCS Trust have a higher level of accountability to Parliament and the taxpayer, and ensures that Government have the power to appropriately scrutinise the NCS Trust as they see fit.</li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>As a Government ALB, the NCS Trust is now subject to the following Government scrutiny: the <strong>National Audit Office (NAO)</strong> audits the NCS annual report and accounts; NAO submit all accounts to the <strong>Committee of Public Accounts (PAC); </strong>The <strong>NCS Act</strong> requires the NCS Trust to lay Ministerially-approved annual business plans, annual reports and accounts in Parliament; The <strong>NCS Royal Charter</strong> states that a <strong>representative of the Government</strong> must sit on the NCS Trust’s Remuneration and Audit and Risk committees; The NCS Trust is subject to all <strong>Cabinet Office Spend Controls</strong></li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>As a Government ALB, the NCS Trust must abide by all principles laid out in <strong>HMT’s Managing Public Money</strong> document.</li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>As the Sponsor Department, DCMS exercises its governance scrutiny over the NCS Trust through: bi-annual Sponsor meetings between the DCMS Permanent Secretary, as Principal Accounting Officer, and the NCS Trust CEO and Board Chair; a high level of Senior Civil Servant involvement in the NCS Trust’s activities, including regular meetings between NCS Trust and DCMS Senior Sponsor and Sponsor Director; and through specialist-level meetings with officials from across DCMS.</li></ul> answering member constituency Loughborough answering member printed Nicky Morgan question first answered 29/10/2019 13:14:21 answering member 4027 label Biography information for Baroness Morgan of Cotes
tabling member	4128 label Biography information for Chuka Umunna

1150864

registered interest
date	21/10/2019
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 assessment she has made of the NCS Trust’s effectiveness in (a) delivering and (b) meeting the targets set for the National Citizen Service.
tabling member constituency	Streatham
tabling member printed	Chuka Umunna
uin	2745
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2019 answer text <p>DCMS assesses the NCS Trust’s effectiveness in delivering the NCS programme against the three core objectives of: social cohesion, social mobility and social engagement - through consecutive, independent evaluations. Since 2013, these have demonstrated the positive impacts that National Citizen Service delivers to both its participants and their communities.</p><p> </p><p>DCMS assesses the NCS Trust’s effectiveness in meeting its Key Performance Indicator (KPI) targets on an ongoing basis and reviews these formally at the bi-annual Sponsor meetings between the DCMS Permanent Secretary and NCS Trust CEO and Board Chair. Performance against KPIs is published in the NCS Trust’s Annual Report, which is laid before Parliament.</p> answering member constituency Loughborough answering member printed Nicky Morgan question first answered 29/10/2019 13:16:28 answering member 4027 label Biography information for Baroness Morgan of Cotes
tabling member	4128 label Biography information for Chuka Umunna

1150865

registered interest
date	21/10/2019
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: Complaints
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 formal complaints have been made to her Department on the NCS Trust in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Streatham
tabling member printed	Chuka Umunna
uin	2746
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2019 answer text <p>In the last twelve months DCMS has received one formal complaint against the NCS Trust and one formal complaint regarding the terms of the new contracts issued by the NCS Trust.</p> answering member constituency Loughborough answering member printed Nicky Morgan question first answered 29/10/2019 13:19:56 answering member 4027 label Biography information for Baroness Morgan of Cotes
tabling member	4128 label Biography information for Chuka Umunna