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

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what plans his Department has put in place to ensure that the National Citizen Service (NCS) Trust has the governance, leadership and expertise necessary to deliver the expansion of the NCS programme; and if he will publish the NCS Trust’s full action plan on governance and capabilities improvements.

The NCS Trust has developed plans to improve organisational governance, leadership and expertise. These plans were published on the Public Accounts Committee website on 3rd November 2017.

Furthermore, improving governance was one of the key aims of the National Citizen Service Act (2017). The Act combined with the NCS Trust Royal Charter, will ensure that the NCS Trust is more accountable to parliament whilst preserving its operational independence and expertise.