Asked by: Lyn Brown (Labour - West Ham)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of regional variations in participation in the National Citizen Service.
Answered by Brooks Newmark
Successive independent evaluations have shown that National Citizen Service has seen significant growth in participation across England and Northern Ireland, with the programme seeing its 100,000th participant this year. The programme is delivered by regional providers who are performance managed by the NCS Trust, an independent not-for-profit organisation. Regional performance is regularly monitored, along with other factors including quality of NCS delivery and the social mix of participants.
An independent evaluation of NCS will be published by Cabinet Office in 2015, after the conclusion of the 2014 NCS programmes, and will detail the costs and number of young participants during 2014.
Asked by: Lyn Brown (Labour - West Ham)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many journeys Ministers of his Department have made using the Government Car Service; and how many such journeys were for the transportation of a red box.
Answered by Lord Maude of Horsham
As was the case under the previous administration the Ministerial Car Pool is used for official purposes. The detailed information requested is not maintained.