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938707

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date	11/07/2018
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 around £9,781,587 has been written off by the Government for places that were not filled in 2016 for the National Citizen Service.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	163141
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2018 answer text <p>Pursuant to my previous answer, the £9,781,587 figure referred to was correctly spent by NCS providers in advance of delivery of the programme. This amount contributed to the upfront costs that are shared with providers to set up the programme for a specified number of places. Unfortunately, some of these places were not filled, and the advance payments for unfilled places cannot be recovered.</p><p> </p><p>Reducing the number of unfilled places is a priority for DCMS in order to deliver better value for money. We have reflected this in the NCS Trust’s performance framework and NCS Trust are improving their commissioning model to allow participation volumes to flex throughout the year in response to demand and reduce the number of unfilled places.</p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 19/07/2018 09:13:01 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

938709

registered interest
date	11/07/2018
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, whether a delivery partner of the National Citizen Service programme is permitted to profit from their service delivery contracts.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	163142
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2018 answer text <p>DCMS does permit NCS delivery partners to profit from their service delivery contracts. However, driving down costs is a priority for the Department and we are working with NCS Trust to ensure value for money for the taxpayer. While, direct comparisons are not straightforward due to the unique nature of NCS, a recent independent benchmarking exercise, commissioned by the Department, indicates that the programme compares favourably to the costs of other similar programmes in the sector, and internationally.</p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 19/07/2018 09:14:36 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

938713

registered interest
date	11/07/2018
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, whether the National Citizen Service Trust has plans to collaborate with the Parliament Education Service in the summer of 2018 to increase citizenship and democratic engagement.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	163143
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2018 answer text <p>The National Citizen Service Trust is collaborating with the Parliament Education Service to deliver workshops to young people during Summer 2018 which focus on how Parliament works and how young people can take action on the issues that matter to them. The NCS curriculum currently includes informing young people about the importance of the democratic process and when the NCS Trust Royal Charter body launches it will be mandated to promote democratic engagement.</p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 19/07/2018 09:16:10 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith