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

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, for what reasons her Department has not produced a stand-alone youth policy statement.

DCMS conducted a series of regional workshops earlier this year with representatives from the youth sector, local authorities and young people to discuss current issues and opportunities for youth policy.

The recently announced Civil Society Strategy will build on this previous work and provide an opportunity to explore ways to build new partnerships within and between sectors and communities in order to better mobilise resources and expertise and find practical new solutions to the problems we face.