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

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, when the next commissioning round of National Citizen Service (NCS) will take place; and what assessment he has made of whether his Department has delivered on its pledge to develop a robust and complete NCS cost model in advance of this.

The next National Citizen Service (NCS) commissioning round will take place later this year. NCS Trust and DCMS are working closely to develop further and refine the cost model that will underpin the future programme.