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914851

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date	01/06/2018
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	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 steps he is taking to promote participation of National Citizen Service in Northern Ireland.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	148883
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2018 answer text <p>NCS is a devolved programme. We granted funding to deliver an NCS pilot in Northern Ireland in 2012 and NCS programmes have run every year since then, providing places to over 2000 young people in Northern Ireland.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 11/06/2018 11:28:51 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

914985

registered interest
date	01/06/2018
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	Elections
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 on the effect of fake news disseminated on the internet on voting in the UK; and what steps he is taking to tackle fake news in relation to elections.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	148906
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2018 answer text <p>The first duty of Government is to safeguard the nation, and we take the security and integrity of our democratic processes very seriously. To date, we have not seen evidence of successful interference in UK democratic processes. However we are not complacent. DCMS is working across Government to develop a strategy to tackle disinformation, which is a key pillar of the Digital Charter.<strong><br> </strong></p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 11/06/2018 13:06:23 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

915021

registered interest
date	01/06/2018
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	Youth Services: Expenditure
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 estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of (a) open access youth work for 13 to 19 year olds, (b) wages for qualified Joint Negotiating Committee youth workers and (c) youth only (i) spaces and (ii) buildings per young person in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	148911
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2018 answer text <p>Local authorities are responsible for allocating funding to youth services in line with local need. The Government has made over £200bn available to local authorities to spend on local services over this Spending Review.</p><p>The Government is committed to making sure young people have opportunities to develop their skills and participate in their communities. The Office for Civil Society (OCS), now based in DCMS, has spent over £667m on youth programmes and supporting youth service delivery between 2014/15 and 2017/18 - with £190m of that being spent in 2017/18. DCMS does not hold data for spending on youth services prior to 2014 as the department did not hold responsibility for youth policy before this.</p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 06/06/2018 09:28:42 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

915104

registered interest
date	01/06/2018
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	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 his Department has made of the potential merits of the recommendation by the National Youth Agency for the creation of a youth covenant as part of the civil society strategy.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	148922
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2018 answer text <p>The department is aware of the National Youth Agency’s proposal for a ‘youth covenant’. We will assess its potential merits alongside recommendations made by organisations and young people as part of the Civil Society Strategy consultation.</p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 11/06/2018 11:25:27 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

915105

registered interest
date	01/06/2018
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	Youth Services: Capital Investment
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 his Department has had with the Treasury on making investment in youth services a priority in future spending reviews.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	148923
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2018 answer text <p>Local authorities are responsible for allocating funding to youth services in line with local need. The Government has made over £200bn available to local authorities to spend on local services over this Spending Review and will hold discussions with the Treasury on the full range of DCMS responsibilities ahead of future spending reviews.</p><p>We recognise the importance of local youth services and the Government is committed to making sure young people have opportunities to develop their skills and participate in their communities. The Office for Civil Society (OCS), now based in DCMS, has spent over £667m on youth programmes and supporting youth service delivery between 2014/15 and 2017/18 - with £190m of that being spent in 2017/18.</p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 11/06/2018 11:26:36 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

915158

registered interest
date	01/06/2018
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	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 his Department has discussed with the (a) Cabinet Office, (b) Department for Education, (c) Department for Exiting the European Union, (d) Department for International Development, (e) Department for Transport, (f) Department for Work and Pensions, (g) Department for Work and Pensions, (h) Department of Health and Social Care, (i) Home Office, (j) Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government and (k) Ministry of Justice the implementation of cross-departmental youth policy since July 2016.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	148944
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2018 answer text <p>Ministers and officials across government have regular discussions with their Cabinet counterparts on a range of issues. DCMS regularly consults with other government departments on policy areas affecting young people, including on the Civil Society Strategy, to ensure a joined-up approach to policy making.</p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 11/06/2018 11:27:38 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith