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Debate between Tim Loughton and Lord Barwell(13 years ago)
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Tim Loughton
Of course the hon. Lady is completely wrong in her premise. The national citizen service, as I have just described, has been funded from a completely separate source from that of youth services—coming through local government and the Department for Education. She knows my concerns about how certain local authorities are treating youth services as a soft target for some of their cuts, and this Government will publish shortly our “Positive for Youth” policy, which will send out some very strong messages about the value of well-targeted, quality youth services run in partnership and under new models, because for too many years they were just not reformed under her Government.
Gavin Barwell (Croydon Central) (Con)
T1. If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities.