Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what recent assessment he has made of trends in the level of participation in the National Citizen Service; and if he will make a statement.
The Department has set ambitious targets for participation in the National Citizen Service to drive growth. Although the 2017 target was narrowly missed, the NCS Trust have achieved year on year growth and a record 99,179 participants in 2017.