Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much was spent on each young person taking part in the National Citizens Service (NCS) in each of the last three financial years; how much is received by a regional provider to deliver the NCS programme to each young person; how much is spent by the NCS Trust on all activity other than that given to a regional provider to deliver the NCS programme; how much is given to the NCS Trust for each young person to undertake the entirety of NCS-related activity; and how much is spent annually by the NCS Trust on marketing and recruitment.

The Cabinet Office funds NCS through an annual grant agreement with NCS Trust. Each year, an independent evaluation of NCS is published, including information on the total cost of the programme and cost per participant. These evaluations can be found at: http://www.ncsyes.co.uk/our-impact and the 2015 evaluation is due to be published later this year.

NCS Trust publishes its accounts each year, and information for 2015/16 will be released in due course. As an independent organisation, NCS Trust makes decisions about the breakdown of its annual budget, including on marketing and recruitment.

Payments to individual regional providers cannot be released for commercial reasons.