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

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what the (a) value of grants made and (b) number of recipients of funding from the National Citizen Service was in (i) South Holland and the Deepings constituency and (ii) Lincolnshire since 2010.

Following Covid-19 and a strategic review, in 2023 the NCS Trust launched a new delivery model for the NCS programme. The new programme consists of residential, community and digital experiences. NCS Trust provides grant-funding to local organisations across England to deliver these community experiences. The figures provided here include all funding and young people in their respective areas, including that provided prior to the new grant-funding model.

In South Holland and the Deepings, since 2010, at least 1340 young people have taken part in an NCS experience and approximately £313,000 has been distributed to provide the experiences to these young people. This funding was delivered to at least 6 organisations.

In Lincolnshire county, since 2010 at least 8850 young people have taken part in an NCS experience and £2.7m of funding has been distributed across 12 organisations. Since 2023, 723 young person experiences have taken place directly funded by grants and NCS has provided over £230k grant-funding to organisations that deliver community experiences to young people in Lincolnshire. This grant funding was delivered to two local organisations.