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

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions his Department has had with (a) the What Works Centre for Local Economic Growth, (b) the Early Intervention Foundation, (c) the What Works Centre for Wellbeing and (d) the Centre for Ageing Better on the recommendations of those bodies for his Department's policies.

DCMS officials are in direct discussion with the What Works Centre for Wellbeing. During the Centre's development DCMS successfully pressed for the incorporation of a separate work programme on the wellbeing impacts of Culture and Sport. DCMS officials are members of the Centre's development group chaired by Lord O'Donnell and continue to support the development and commissioning of the Culture and Sport programme launched in Oct 2014.

DCMS officials have also discussed the What Works Centre for Local Economic Growth's draft report with the authors.

The Department has not had any discussions to date with the Early Intervention Foundation or Centre for Ageing Better.