Youth Investment Fund

(asked on 24th February 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what recent discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities on the impact on Barnsley Central constituency of not being prioritised for funding from the Youth Investment Fund.


Answered by
Nigel Huddleston Portrait
Nigel Huddleston
Financial Secretary (HM Treasury)
This question was answered on 1st March 2022

Following the 2021 Spending Review, we are investing £560 million in youth services in England over the next 3 years, including the Youth Investment Fund and ongoing support for the National Citizen Service. This will transform the government’s offer for young people and level up opportunities right across the country.

£368 million of our investment has been dedicated to the Youth Investment Fund, which will see 45 local authorities and around 600 district wards in deprived parts of England eligible to apply, paving the way for up to 300 youth facilities to be built or redeveloped over the next three years.

The areas qualifying for the Youth Investment Fund were chosen on the basis of need using publicly available data sources. The data sets chosen were local authority level rates of young people not in Education or Employment (NEET), the proportion of children living in low income households from the Index of Multiple Deprivation (IDACI scores), and the returns from local authorities to government on the levels of spend on youth services (Section 251 data).

The details of how this formula has been applied are available on the GOV.UK website.

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