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

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps the Government is taking to uphold the commitment it made at the 9th Commonwealth Youth Ministers Meeting outlined in point 11 of the Final Communiqué to (a) mainstream youth priorities across all stages of policy-making and public spending, (b) ensure that youth priorities are integrated with national development and sustainable financing strategies and (c) adopt youth-sensitive budgeting, progressive taxation and youth-friendly public procurement policies.

This Government is committed to investing in young people and young people’s wide-ranging priorities are addressed across Departments. In the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport we have allocated over £1billion over this Spending Review period to expand National Citizen Service and earlier this month I announced a further £40m Youth Investment Fund.