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

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to Government grants statistics 2020 to 2021, published on 31 March 2022, what assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of the Place Based Social Action Programme 1819.

The department sets objectives for grant funding when designing the grant scheme and allocates funding in accordance with those objectives. The department also conducts evaluation of the outcomes achieved.

The evaluation for Phase One (2018/19) of the Place Based Social Action programme is available here. The evaluation at Phase Two (2020/21) is available here.

The programme is ongoing and Phase Three is due to continue until 2024. It is administered by the National Lottery Community Fund. An evaluation of Phase Three will be published in due course.