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 10 of the Final Communiqué to evaluate youth programmes.

The government is making significant investments to build the evidence base for youth programmes. We are: funding the Centre for Youth Impact to improve capacity in the youth sector to evaluate programmes; investing £1 million in evaluation of open access youth programmes through the Youth Investment Fund; building a Learning and Impact Hub through the #iwill Fund to improve the evidence on youth social action; and continuing to invest in robust, independent evaluation of the National Citizen Service.