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

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to ensure youth voice is integrated into the new national youth strategy.

The National Youth Strategy will be co-produced in partnership with young people and the youth sector.

DCMS has already conducted Ministerial roundtables with young people and over the next couple of months will conduct a number of different engagement activities with young people, including focus groups. In the coming weeks, we will be launching a wide-reaching survey, and a series of youth engagement activities across the country to ask young people about their issues and priorities.

We have also set up a Youth Advisory Group and an Expert Advisory Group to work alongside us throughout the development of the strategy.