Youth Services: Capital Investment

(asked on 1st June 2018) - 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 his Department has had with the Treasury on making investment in youth services a priority in future spending reviews.


Answered by
Tracey Crouch Portrait
Tracey Crouch
This question was answered on 11th June 2018

Local authorities are responsible for allocating funding to youth services in line with local need. The Government has made over £200bn available to local authorities to spend on local services over this Spending Review and will hold discussions with the Treasury on the full range of DCMS responsibilities ahead of future spending reviews.

We recognise the importance of local youth services and the Government is committed to making sure young people have opportunities to develop their skills and participate in their communities. The Office for Civil Society (OCS), now based in DCMS, has spent over £667m on youth programmes and supporting youth service delivery between 2014/15 and 2017/18 - with £190m of that being spent in 2017/18.

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