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

To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Ashton of Hyde on 8 January (HL4167), which youth programmes the £475 million is to be spent on.

The Office for Civil Society (DCMS, formerly Cabinet Office) has spent over £475m on youth programmes and supporting youth service delivery between 2014/15 and 2016/17 - the first full financial year that youth policy sat in these departments to the last completed financial year. This included: National Citizen Service; the Youth Investment Fund; the #iwill and other youth social action Funds; the annual grant to the British Youth Council; the Centre for Youth Impact; and the Delivering Differently for Young People programme.