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982539

registered interest
date	08/10/2018
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 Organisations
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 recent report by London Youth entitled A space of our own: The role and value of youth organisations in strengthening communities, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that youth organisations are recognised as valuable parts of social infrastructure and are supported to strengthen communities.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	176382
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/10/2018 answer text <p>Government recognises the value of spaces for young people; a place of trust and safety, that provides high quality information, advice and guidance alongside positive activities that can help young people to develop skills, improve wellbeing and participate in their communities.</p><p> </p><p>Local authorities are primarily responsible for allocating public funding to youth services in their area. In addition, the Government is investing up to £40 million (in partnership with the Big Lottery Fund) in the Youth Investment Fund, which is supporting 90 youth organisations around the country to create and expand open access youth projects, and is expected to benefit up to 300,000 young people. This is part of a wider range of Government investment in services and opportunities for young people such as the #iwill fund and National Citizen Service.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch grouped question UIN 176384 question first answered 11/10/2018 15:16:46 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

969173

registered interest
date	06/09/2018
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, what steps the Government took to actively encourage young people to apply to be a board member for the National Citizen Service Trust; and how many of those positions will be reserved for young people.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	171437
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2018 answer text <p>DCMS endeavour to ensure that a diverse field of candidates apply to Public Appointments campaigns in order to meet the requirements of the Public Sector Equality Duty. As a result, Ministers are presented with a choice of appointable candidates whose skills, experience and qualities meet the needs of the required roles</p><p><br> The NCS Trust board member roles were advertised on the Cabinet Office Public Appointments website, the NCS Trust website and other channels and networks used for DCMS appointments, as well as on social media. Given the need to fill multiple Board positions, and the importance of attracting a diverse pool of applicants, we worked closely with the NCS Trust to identify a variety of other channels specific to the requirements of these roles and to endeavour to attract a diverse field of candidates</p><p><br> In addition, NCS Trust has an extensive national youth board network, via which the views of young people across the country are heard at all levels across the NCS Trust. Representatives from the youth board regularly attend the full Board meetings.</p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 11/09/2018 13:10:39 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

969183

registered interest
date	06/09/2018
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, what steps the Government is taking to ensure that board members of the National Citizen Service Trust are actively involved in the recommissioning process of delivery partners for NCS in 2020 and beyond.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	171445
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2018 answer text <p>The recommissioning of NCS provider contracts in 2020 gives a key opportunity to make efficiencies and drive down costs, which will further improve value for money for the taxpayer.</p><p> </p><p>We are working closely with the NCS Trust on the recommissioning programme, and all contracts will be awarded by the new National Citizen Service Trust Royal Charter Body. The recommissioning process and the award of contracts is a Board level matter, and as such the current NCS Trust Board provide direction and scrutiny to the process.</p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 11/09/2018 12:53:54 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

969185

registered interest
date	06/09/2018
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, how much the Government has spent on independent evaluations of the National Citizen Service programme since the launch of that programme.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	171446
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2018 answer text <p>Departmental records show that £3,330,000 has been allocated to evaluation since the creation of the National Citizen Service in 2011.</p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 11/09/2018 13:28:40 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

969194

registered interest
date	06/09/2018
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 19 July 2018 to Question 163143 on National Citizen Service Trust, how many workshops were delivered to young people during Summer 2018 in collaboration with the Parliament Education Service; where those workshops were held; how many people attended those workshops; and whether there are plans for similar workshops in the future.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	171452
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2018 answer text <p>Around 85% of NCS programmes this year include activities with an explicit focus on political and democratic engagement. The Parliament Education Service (PES) are just one of the partners who help to deliver this content, but they alone reached 11,000 young people across the country this Summer (data is not held centrally on the locations of these workshops). Furthermore, the NCS Trust Extension Team is also working with Bite the Ballot to support NCS graduates to engage with National Democracy Week in 2019.</p><p> </p><p>The NCS Trust are in the process of revamping programme quality and planning frameworks, which will set an expectation that all NCS programmes will feature sessions designed to improve political and democratic outcomes (as per the requirement in the NCS Royal Charter). Specialist partners such as PES and Bite the Ballot will be invited to help develop the related guidance.</p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 11/09/2018 13:08:44 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

969198

registered interest
date	06/09/2018
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: Royal Charters
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 19 July 2018 to Question 163143 on National Citizen Service Trust, what the timescale is for launching the NCS Trust Royal Charter body.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	171456
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2018 answer text <p>We expect the NCS Trust Royal Charter body to launch on 1st December 2018, subject to the completion of the ongoing Board member recruitment campaign. The new Royal Charter body Chair, Brett Wigdortz, was announced in July this year.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 13/09/2018 15:29:18 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

969213

registered interest
date	06/09/2018
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 proportion of funding for the National Citizen Service was spent on frontline delivery in each of the last three financial years.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	171471
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2018 answer text <p>Grant funding provided to the NCS Trust for the delivery of the NCS programme in each of the last three financial years is set out below.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </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></tr><tr><td><p>Total grant funding (£M)</p></td><td><p>155</p></td><td><p>181</p></td><td><p>181</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Although it is not possible to separate out figures for frontline costs from overall running costs, the NCS Cost Benchmark Report, released in February 2018, analyses the operational delivery cost of the four phases of the programme. The report found that the average costs per young person for each of the core phases of the programme compare well to the costs that would be incurred by separately procuring these at market rates.</p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 13/09/2018 16:05:08 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

969215

registered interest
date	06/09/2018
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 proportion of funding for the National Citizen Service will be ring fenced for a dedicated Inclusion Fund.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	171473
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2018 answer text <p>Due to a live procurement process and the commercial sensitivities of the recommissioning programme, information of this kind is not made publically available.</p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 11/09/2018 12:39:16 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

969216

registered interest
date	06/09/2018
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 19 July 2018 to Question 163141 on National Citizen Service Trust, whether the contracts with National Citizen Service providers included a provision for the repayment of funding by the provider in the event of unfilled places.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	171474
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2018 answer text <p>Pursuant to my answer of 19 July, current contracts with providers of the NCS programme do not include provision for repayment of funding in the event of unfilled places. However, the NCS Trust does recover all advance payments to providers that are not spent on delivering the NCS programme.</p><p> </p><p>Reducing the risk of unfilled places is a priority for DCMS. The NCS Trust with DCMS support, are developing measures to improve the quality and flexibility of the commissioning model; enabling changes which will allow participation volumes to flex throughout the year in response to demand and so bring down the number of unfilled places.</p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 13/09/2018 15:33:29 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

969223

registered interest
date	06/09/2018
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	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport: Civil Servants
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 civil servants in his Department work on youth policy; and what specific policy areas they focus on.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	171478
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2018 answer text <p>The Department has 16.9 full-time equivalent (FTE) civil servants working across different aspects of youth policy, including:</p><p> </p><ul><li>Cultural Education</li><li>Young People's Sport</li><li>Local Youth Services</li><li>Youth Social Action</li><li>Youth Voice and Leadership</li><li>Youth Funds</li><li>National Citizen Service</li><li>International Youth Policy</li><li>Digital skills</li></ul> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 13/09/2018 15:36:27 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith