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1337782

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date	17/06/2021
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	Children's Play: Facilities
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the Government's announcement of 14 June 2021 not to move ahead with Step 4 of the Government's roadmap for the easing of covid-19 restrictions from the 21 June 2021, whether his Department has made an estimate of the value of business that will be lost by the indoor play sector as a result of continued limits on capacity for that sector.
tabling member constituency	York Outer
tabling member printed	Julian Sturdy
uin	17733
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2021 answer text <p>We recognise the challenging times facing all sectors currently, and continue to support in line the prime minister's roadmap to the full reopening of the economy. The Department has been working closely with stakeholders across the indoor play sector throughout the pandemic to understand both the nature and scale of the impact that this sector has faced.</p><p> </p><p>Since 17 May, indoor play sectors have been able to reopen, with COVID safety guidance in place. We are committed to helping the Indoor play sector reopen fully, and while we know that the loss of some business that may occur as a result of the delay to step 4, public health must remain the top priority. The roadmap sets out a cautious and gradual approach, led by data, not dates.</p><p> </p><p>Throughout the pandemic, businesses have had access to an unprecedented £350 billion package of support including cash grants, government-backed loans, the extended furlough scheme and £5 billion for new Restart Grants.</p><p> </p><p>To ensure that people and businesses have time to plan as the economy reopens in line with the easing of restrictions, schemes such as the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) and Self-Employed Income Support Scheme (SEISS) will continue until September 2021. Support for businesses through grants and loans, business rates and VAT relief is also still available.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 25/06/2021 13:39:01 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	4079 label Biography information for Julian Sturdy

1337843

registered interest
date	17/06/2021
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	Youth Investment Fund
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 he has had with representatives of the youth sector on ensuring that the Youth Investment Fund tackles local priorities.
tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton South West
tabling member printed	Stuart Anderson
uin	17843
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2021 answer text <p>Ministers and officials are in regular contact with the youth sector during the development of the Youth Investment Fund. Officials are working with representatives from the youth sector and young people to shape the design and delivery of the fund. Feedback from the sector on previous funding programmes such as the Youth Covid Support Fund has also been key to development of the Youth Investment Fund. This will ensure a delivery model that is inherently placed based and locally led, achieving maximum impact for young people in left behind places.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Boston and Skegness answering member printed Matt Warman question first answered 24/06/2021 16:04:19 answering member 4361 label Biography information for Matt Warman
tabling member	4742 label Biography information for Stuart Anderson

1337917

registered interest
date	17/06/2021
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
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 recent assessment has he made of the effectiveness of local volunteer centres.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	17778
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2021 answer text <p>Local Volunteer Centres play an important role in many areas, providing support and expertise on volunteering within the local community.</p><p><br>DCMS has not conducted a specific assessment of local volunteer centres but the MoVE project, a collaboration between the Universities of Sheffield, Hull and Leeds (Lessons from Lockdown, October 2020) found that ‘existing local infrastructure and community support networks have underpinned successful community responses.’</p> answering member constituency Boston and Skegness answering member printed Matt Warman question first answered 25/06/2021 13:37:50 answering member 4361 label Biography information for Matt Warman
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1337918

registered interest
date	17/06/2021
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
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 he has of the comparative effectiveness of volunteering opportunities organised through (a) local and (b) national schemes.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	17779
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2021 answer text <p>Volunteering opportunities organised both nationally and locally have been an integral part of the community response to COVID-19.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Out of the various ways that people stepped up to respond to the pandemic, the Talk Together report Our Chance to Reconnect (March 2020) estimates that 12.4 million people across the UK volunteered to support their communities (<a href="https://www.britishfuture.org/our-chance-to-reconnect-the-new-talk-together-report/" target="_blank">Talk/Together: Our Chance to Reconnect</a>, February 2021), with up to 4.6 million volunteering for the first time. Of these first time volunteers, 75% say they wish to continue volunteering. With reference to volunteering opportunities organised nationally, it is worth noting that NHS Volunteer Responders have now completed more than 1.9 million tasks to support over 171,000 people at risk from Covid-19. (<a href="https://future.nhs.uk/NHSVolunteerRespondersCOVID/view?objectId=21037008" target="_blank">NHS Volunteer Responder Success Measures</a> (12 June 2020 - 16 May 2021)</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>In addition to volunteer responses organised through formal channels locally and nationally, the pandemic saw huge growth in informal volunteering. The DCMS Community Life Recontact Survey (December 2020) found that the proportion of the population offering informal help on a regular basis (at least once a month) increased from 28% to 47% (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/community-life-covid-19-re-contact-survey-2020-main-report" target="_blank">DCMS, Community Life COVID-19 Recontact Survey</a>, December 2020). We saw communities rapidly mobilising to help local people, who were particularly at risk or hardest hit by the effects of isolation. Pro Bono Economics’ Civil Action report (December 2020) estimated that over 2.5 million people volunteered with over 4,000 mutual aid groups (<a href="https://www.probonoeconomics.com/civil-action-exploring-civil-societys-potential-in-the-2020s#:~:text=This%20research%20is%20a%20part,Family%20Commission%20on%20Civil%20Society.&amp;text=Civil%20society%20is%20somewhere%20we,better%20country%20and%20better%20world." target="_blank">Pro Bono Economics, ‘Civil Action: Exploring Civil Societies Potential in the 2020s’</a>, December 2020), a unique grassroots movement which has seen communities demonstrate their strength, resourcefulness and adaptability.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Boston and Skegness answering member printed Matt Warman question first answered 25/06/2021 13:35:57 answering member 4361 label Biography information for Matt Warman
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1337920

registered interest
date	17/06/2021
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	Social Security Benefits: Voluntary Work
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 he has had with the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions on the potential merits of volunteering for people on universal credit and other legacy benefits.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	17780
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2021 answer text <p>Government is always interested in understanding and maximising the benefits of volunteering for all individuals.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Increasingly, we know that volunteering can bring considerable benefits to the individual themselves, in addition to the social value they generate for the people and causes they support through their activity. The What Works Centre for Wellbeing’s Rapid Evidence Review of volunteering and wellbeing (October 2020) found that while the context of volunteering is an important factor, there is ‘high quality evidence that volunteering is positively linked to enhanced wellbeing, including improved life satisfaction, increased happiness and decreases in symptoms of depression’. (What Works Centre for Wellbeing, Institute for Volunteering Research Universities of Sheffield, Salford, UEA and Manchester, <a href="https://whatworkswellbeing.org/resources/volunteer-wellbeing-what-works-and-who-benefits/" target="_blank">The Impacts of Volunteering on the Subject Wellbeing of Volunteers: A Rapid Evidence Assessment</a>, 2020.)</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Beyond wellbeing, other studies have examined the links between volunteering and employability, particularly for young people and though socioeconomic factors are thought to be key, these also demonstrate positive benefits. A study by the Behavioural Insights Team for the #iwill youth social action campaign in 2019 found that employers prefer employees who have undertaken social action, since they demonstrate better skills. Accordingly, 81% of young people who have participated in social action believe that this will help them develop new skills.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Boston and Skegness answering member printed Matt Warman question first answered 24/06/2021 16:07:33 answering member 4361 label Biography information for Matt Warman
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1337241

registered interest
date	16/06/2021
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	Youth Services
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 recent discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Education on the adequacy of the statutory provision of youth services.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	16884
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2021 answer text <p>The Government recognises the transformational impact that youth services can have on the wellbeing of young people. This is even more crucial given the significant impact of Covid-19 on young people, particularly the most vulnerable, and the important role of youth services in supporting them.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Local authorities are directly responsible for allocating public funding to youth services in their areas, and working with youth stakeholders, communities and young people are best placed to know what is needed in their communities.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport has been reviewing the guidance which accompanies the statutory duty placed on Local Authorities to secure local youth services. Officials held consultations with the youth sector and young people, and ran a public call for evidence, which closed in December 2019. The conclusions of the review were delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and are now being considered as part of a wider review of out of school youth programmes. The review will inform the future out of school offer for young people which will be set out at the 2021 Spending Review.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The Youth Investment Fund remains a manifesto commitment to level up access to youth services over the course of this Parliament. £30m of this has been committed as capital funding in 2021/22, to support investment in new and refurbished safe spaces for young people in left behind places.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Boston and Skegness answering member printed Matt Warman grouped question UIN 16885 16886 question first answered 24/06/2021 16:08:41 answering member 4361 label Biography information for Matt Warman
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1337242

registered interest
date	16/06/2021
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	Youth Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the effect of the covid-19 outbreak on young people's wellbeing, what recent assessment he has made of the importance of local authorities providing a comprehensive youth service.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	16885
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2021 answer text <p>The Government recognises the transformational impact that youth services can have on the wellbeing of young people. This is even more crucial given the significant impact of Covid-19 on young people, particularly the most vulnerable, and the important role of youth services in supporting them.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Local authorities are directly responsible for allocating public funding to youth services in their areas, and working with youth stakeholders, communities and young people are best placed to know what is needed in their communities.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport has been reviewing the guidance which accompanies the statutory duty placed on Local Authorities to secure local youth services. Officials held consultations with the youth sector and young people, and ran a public call for evidence, which closed in December 2019. The conclusions of the review were delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and are now being considered as part of a wider review of out of school youth programmes. The review will inform the future out of school offer for young people which will be set out at the 2021 Spending Review.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The Youth Investment Fund remains a manifesto commitment to level up access to youth services over the course of this Parliament. £30m of this has been committed as capital funding in 2021/22, to support investment in new and refurbished safe spaces for young people in left behind places.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Boston and Skegness answering member printed Matt Warman grouped question UIN 16884 16886 question first answered 24/06/2021 16:08:41 answering member 4361 label Biography information for Matt Warman
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1337243

registered interest
date	16/06/2021
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	Youth Services
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 he has made of the potential merits of commissioning a comprehensive statutory youth service.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	16886
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2021 answer text <p>The Government recognises the transformational impact that youth services can have on the wellbeing of young people. This is even more crucial given the significant impact of Covid-19 on young people, particularly the most vulnerable, and the important role of youth services in supporting them.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Local authorities are directly responsible for allocating public funding to youth services in their areas, and working with youth stakeholders, communities and young people are best placed to know what is needed in their communities.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport has been reviewing the guidance which accompanies the statutory duty placed on Local Authorities to secure local youth services. Officials held consultations with the youth sector and young people, and ran a public call for evidence, which closed in December 2019. The conclusions of the review were delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and are now being considered as part of a wider review of out of school youth programmes. The review will inform the future out of school offer for young people which will be set out at the 2021 Spending Review.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The Youth Investment Fund remains a manifesto commitment to level up access to youth services over the course of this Parliament. £30m of this has been committed as capital funding in 2021/22, to support investment in new and refurbished safe spaces for young people in left behind places.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Boston and Skegness answering member printed Matt Warman grouped question UIN 16884 16885 question first answered 24/06/2021 16:08:41 answering member 4361 label Biography information for Matt Warman
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1337245

registered interest
date	16/06/2021
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	Charities: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the Government's announcement of 14 June 2021 not to move ahead with Step 4 of the Government's roadmap for the easing of covid-19 restrictions from 21 June 2021, what discussions he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the potential merits of providing additional resources to support charities .
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	16887
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2021 answer text <p>Government recognises the huge contribution of charities in the national effort against coronavirus, and the significant challenges that many have experienced.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>My department continues to work closely with other government departments, academic institutions and stakeholders to review evidence on the impact of ongoing restrictions on charities in terms of financial resilience and demand for services.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The sector continues to benefit from a multi-billion-pound package of government support, including the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme. The Government has provided a £750 million package for charities and social enterprises, which has helped support organisations providing key services to those most in need. Many organisations have used funding to make changes that will continue to benefit their work over the longer term.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Boston and Skegness answering member printed Matt Warman grouped question UIN 16888 question first answered 23/06/2021 15:09:34 answering member 4361 label Biography information for Matt Warman
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1337246

registered interest
date	16/06/2021
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	Charities: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the Government's announcement of 14 June 2021 not to move ahead with Step 4 of the Government's roadmap for the easing of covid-19 restrictions from 21 June 2021, what assessment he has made of potential changes in the levels of demand for support from charities by the public.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	16888
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2021 answer text <p>Government recognises the huge contribution of charities in the national effort against coronavirus, and the significant challenges that many have experienced.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>My department continues to work closely with other government departments, academic institutions and stakeholders to review evidence on the impact of ongoing restrictions on charities in terms of financial resilience and demand for services.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The sector continues to benefit from a multi-billion-pound package of government support, including the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme. The Government has provided a £750 million package for charities and social enterprises, which has helped support organisations providing key services to those most in need. Many organisations have used funding to make changes that will continue to benefit their work over the longer term.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Boston and Skegness answering member printed Matt Warman grouped question UIN 16887 question first answered 23/06/2021 15:09:34 answering member 4361 label Biography information for Matt Warman
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell