Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of regional variations in participation in his Department's A Year in Service scheme in 2012.

I refer the hon. Member to my answer to her of 10 September 2014, Official Report, Column 638W.

Figures are not centrally held on the number of participants, but I would observe that 144 separate events were recorded on the “A Year of Service” website, including Berkshire, Birmingham, Bournemouth, Bradford, Bury, Cardiff, Colchester, Dublin, Feltham, Glasgow, Gravesend, Hertfordshire, Leeds, Leicester, London Luton, Maidenhead, Manchester, Newcastle, Nottingham, Oxford, Poole, Radlett, Scottish boarders, Sheffield, Slough, Southampton, St Albans, Taunton, Watford, Wessex and the West Midlands. Many more events took place locally around the country.