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 help increase access to youth facilities in coastal communities.

This Government is co-producing a National Youth Strategy with young people and the youth sector to set out a new vision for young people and an action plan for delivering this. We expect this work to cover the current needs of young people, access to safe spaces, preferences for activities to access local areas outside of school, and much more. We plan to publish the strategy in the summer.

In 2025/26, we will launch the Local Youth Transformation pilot to support local authorities and their partners to improve their capability to improve local youth offers.

We are also allocating over £85m of capital funding to create welcoming spaces for young people through the new Better Youth Spaces fund and completing the Youth Investment Fund projects.