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1176566

registered interest
date	05/02/2020
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 Centres: Closures
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister of State, Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate her Department has made of the number of youth centres that have closed in (a) Lewisham Deptford, (b) Lewisham borough, (c) London and (d) the UK in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
uin	13062
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2020 answer text <p>The data concerning the number of youth service centres that have closed in (a) Lewisham Deptford, (b) Lewisham borough, (c) London and (d) the UK in each year since 2010 is not held by my Department.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>It is the responsibility of local authorities to allocate funding for local services, in line with local need. Individual local authorities would be best placed to advise on any changes there have been to the number of youth centres in their local area.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 11/02/2020 17:26:41 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

1176146

registered interest
date	04/02/2020
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 Minister of State, Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the Answer of 22 October 2019 to Question 311, what progress her Department has made on the design of the Youth Investment Fund; and when the final details of that fund will be published.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
uin	12425
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2020 answer text <p>The new £500m Youth Investment Fund will start in 2020/21 and run over five years. This investment will be a balance of capital and revenue funding. The capital funding will build 60 more youth centres, refurbish 360 existing centres, and 100 mobile centres for harder to reach areas across the country, which will deliver high quality services to young people.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The revenue funding will support the provision and coordination of high-quality youth services and positive activities for young people, building on the investment provided by the £7m Youth Accelerator Fund which launched on 30th January 2020.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The Youth Investment Fund is being designed in close consultation with young people, the organisations that work with them, and other departments. We will publish further details on the design of the Youth Investment Fund in due course.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 11/02/2020 17:28:02 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

1176156

registered interest
date	04/02/2020
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	Civil Society
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister of State, Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the Answer of 23 October 2019 to Question 670, on Third Sector, what recent progress his Department has made on establishing the responsible business leadership group.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
uin	12431
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2020 answer text <p>The Department, together with BEIS, has continued with the work outlined in the response provided to Question 670. We are consulting with stakeholders from business and civil society, and are conducting research and engaging with academic institutions to gather information on specifically what questions the Group should seek to answer. The Department is also giving further consideration to the relationship of the Group to other business councils, particularly in light of the Government’s new priorities, to ensure that the Group is complementary to these. The Secretary of State will make an announcement about the formation of the Group in due course.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 11/02/2020 17:24:33 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

1176160

registered interest
date	04/02/2020
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	Civil Society
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister of State, Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the Answer of 23 October 2019 to Question 662 on Third Sector, whether the first round of Local Access programme funding has been released; and what five places will receive that funding.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
uin	12435
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2020 answer text <p>Big Society Capital and The Access Foundation announced the six places will receive funding: Bradford; Bristol; Gainsborough; Greater Manchester (Bolton, Oldham, Stockport and Wigan); Hartlepool, Redcar &amp; Cleveland; and Southwark in London. The six partnerships will now begin a co-design process with Access and Big Society Capital to refine the detail of their enterprise development and investment plans with an expectation that the first place based programmes will launch in the second part of 2020. A small amount of grant funding will be released to assist with the co-design phase.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 11/02/2020 17:11:34 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

1174243

registered interest
date	29/01/2020
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: Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister of State, Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what the pay differential is between the highest and lowest paid employees of the National Citizen Service Trust.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
uin	9734
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2020 answer text <p>As of 31 January 2020, the upper band of NCS Trust salaries was between £140-145k and lower band is £15-20k.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 11/02/2020 11:47:14 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

1170627

registered interest
date	14/01/2020
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 (a) adequacy and (b) reasons for the underspend of the funding allocated to the National Citizen Service.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
uin	3254
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2020 answer text <p>The NCS’ budget is set based on the participation numbers. Stretching participation targets are set by DCMS year on year to help drive the NCS Trust to reach as many young people as possible.The underspend is as a result of the programme participation numbers falling below the target. DCMS works closely with NCS throughout the year providing a strong challenge against NCS’s full year financial forecasts.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 21/01/2020 14:44:47 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

1170628

registered interest
date	14/01/2020
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 recent trends in the level of young people participating in the National Citizen Service.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
uin	3255
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2020 answer text <p>NCS has been the fastest growing youth organisation since its inception 10 years ago. In recent years, participation in the NCS programme has increased to around 100,000 per year. This equates to approximately 1 in 6 eligible young people participating in the programme. In 2014, 58,283 young people participated in comparison to 99,179 in 2017 (according to the latest published figures). The newly commissioned network, brand refresh and targeted recruitment marketing campaign are all expected to ensure that more young people benefit from the programme, following a year of change and transition.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 21/01/2020 14:49:29 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

1156376

registered interest
date	25/10/2019
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	Loneliness
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 her Department has made on including loneliness in the guidance her Department issues on the family test.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
uin	5467
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2019 answer text <p>My Department does not issue guidance on the Family Test. However, the Department for Work and Pensions is currently refreshing the government guidance on the Family Test which is due to be published shortly. I can confirm that loneliness will be included in the updated guidance.</p> answering member constituency Loughborough answering member printed Nicky Morgan question first answered 04/11/2019 13:33:27 answering member 4027 label Biography information for Baroness Morgan of Cotes
tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

1150960

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 the underspend of the National Citizen Service was in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
uin	2802
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2019 answer text <p>The underspend of the National Citizen Service against its Government Grant for the last five years is presented in the table below:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>FY</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014/15</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015/16</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016/17</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2017/18</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2018/19</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Underspend</p></td><td><p>*</p></td><td><p>*</p></td><td><p>£25.4m</p></td><td><p>£7.80m</p></td><td><p>£10.10m</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>* NCS programme was sponsored by the Cabinet Office in these years. DCMS will confirm the NCS underspends with the Cabinet Office and write to the Hon member on this matter. A copy of the letter will be placed in the House library.</p> answering member constituency Loughborough answering member printed Nicky Morgan question first answered 24/10/2019 09:45:19 answering member 4027 label Biography information for Baroness Morgan of Cotes
tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

1148848

registered interest
date	14/10/2019
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	Sustainable Development
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 page 13 of the Government’s Civil Society Strategy, what progress her Department has made towards designing a programme to look at more sustainable spaces in conjunction with the Department for Housing, Communities and Local Government.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
uin	314
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2019 answer text <p>The Space to Connect Fund was launched in June 2019 and is a new £1.6 million fund to help improve community spaces where people can connect and co-operate. This is a partnership between Government and Co-op’s charity, the Co-op Foundation.</p><p>Space to Connect has awarded an initial round of funding of almost £900,000 to 57 community organisations across England. This fund will support organisations to explore ways to use spaces in their community to address local challenges or expand activities in spaces so they become more financially sustainable in the long-term. <strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Loughborough answering member printed Nicky Morgan question first answered 28/10/2019 11:47:35 answering member 4027 label Biography information for Baroness Morgan of Cotes
tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft