Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate his Department has made of the cost to the public purse of delivering the National Citizen Service in (a) the UK and (b) London in each of the last five years.
| 2011/12 - 2013/14 | 2014/15 | 2015/16 | 2016/17 | 2017/18 |
Total grant funding (£M) | 168 | 117 | 155 | 181 | 181 |
A proportion of NCST’s costs are spent centrally - for example on safeguarding, IT infrastructure, and programme support, and these are not allocated by region. It is therefore not possible to provide an accurate split for London only.