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

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions Ministers and officials in his Department have had with the What Works Networks or Nudge Unit on implementing the techniques recommended by those bodies in his Department.

DCMS officials had contact with the Behavioural Insights Unit in November 2014. This contact came via their representation on the Cross-Government Behavioural Insights Network in response to a request for bids to their Harvard Programme.

DCMS officials are directly involved in the What Works Centre for Wellbeing. As this Centre is currently being established, no techniques have yet been recommended. However, the Department welcomes the opportunity to explore the use of techniques that may in due course be recommended.