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

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how many responses his Department has received in respect of its consultation paper, Civil Society Strategy, published in February 2018.

Just over 1400 people have visited the platform so far. Around 130 responses have been submitted. The platform will be open until 22 May, with the majority of responses expected in the final weeks.

The platform forms one part of a wider engagement exercise. Government is holding a series of workshops around the country, the first of which took place in Birmingham on 11 April. Officials are attending meetings of stakeholders networks to discuss the Strategy and we have published a toolkit to support groups to hold their own conversations and provide feedback.