Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how many teenagers have (a) commenced and (b) graduated a National Citizenship Service programme in each of the last four years; and what the Government's target was for participation in that programme since 2011.
| 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 |
Govt target1 | 10,000 | 30,000 | 50,000 | 66,433 | 90,000 | 100,000 | 101,000 | 100,000 |
Annual participants | 8,434 | 26,003 | 39,566 | 57,789 | 75,605 | 92,996 | 99,179 | TBC2 |
Completed | 7,140 | 22,245 | 37,266 | 51,512 | 68,762 | 87,266 | 90,010 | TBC2 |
1 Government targets are for participation, not completion.
2 Final participation figures for 2018 will be confirmed in due course.