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Departmental Publication (Statistics)
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Apr. 25 2024

Source Page: Regulatory Horizons Council: the Future Regulation of Space Technologies
Document: (PDF)

Found: development, fielding and exploitation of such technologies occurs against the backdrop of myriad political


Written Question
British Youth Council
Wednesday 24th April 2024

Asked by: Alexander Stafford (Conservative - Rother Valley)

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make an assessment of the impact of the British Youth Council on the political literacy of young people.

Answered by Stuart Andrew - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Culture, Media and Sport)

I was sorry to learn about the closure of the British Youth Council and want to express gratitude for its work over the years. Government is committed to the delivery of the UK Youth Parliament and intends to use funding allocated to BYC in 2024/25 to support the programme. We are working alongside previous UKYP delivery partners from English regions and the devolved administrations, to understand the implications of BYCs closure for programme delivery. We have been working at pace to identify a suitable organisation which can hold overall grant management responsibility for the UKYP 24/25 and I will update the house as soon as next steps have been formalised. In parallel, we will be leading engagement with young people and key stakeholders to plan for the longer-term future of the UKYP.

An evaluation of the impact of the Youth Parliament was conducted between October 2022 and March 2023 and found that all stakeholders, participants, delivery staff and policy officials, agreed that the programmes were important vehicles to engage young people in the UK political processes and support youth-informed policy development. A new evaluation of the UK Youth Parliament programme was started in 23/24 and is due to conclude in 24/25.

Since 2017, Government has provided a total amount of c.£2.4m to the British Youth Council to deliver youth voice activities including the UK Youth Parliament, Youth Select Committees and Make Your Mark.


Select Committee
Atlantic Council, and University of Nottingham

Oral Evidence Apr. 23 2024

Inquiry: Defence in the Grey Zone
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Defence Committee (Department: Ministry of Defence)

Found: among the public are public levels of trust in Government, which is key, and levels of public media literacy


Commons Chamber
Hospice Funding - Mon 22 Apr 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Rachael Maskell (LAB - York Central) We need to deal with that to ensure we have universal provision, address the death literacy of our nation - Speech Link
2: Sally-Ann Hart (Con - Hastings and Rye) and consensus that shows that the funding of hospices and palliative and end of life care is not a political - Speech Link


Bill Documents
22 Apr 2024 - Amendment Paper
HL Bill 57-II(Rev) Revised second marshalled list for Report
Victims and Prisoners Bill 2022-23

Found: unable to provide that confirmation in writing as a result of P’s physical impairment or lack of literacy


Parliamentary Research
Children Not in School (Registers, Support and Orders) Bill 23-24 - CBP-10005
Apr. 19 2024

Found: • Local authorities may use minimum expectations for literacy and numeracy in assessing suitability


Departmental Publication (News and Communications)
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Apr. 19 2024

Source Page: G7 foreign ministers' statement in Italy, April 2024
Document: G7 foreign ministers' statement in Italy, April 2024 (webpage)

Found: The political stalemate leaves Libya extremely vulnerable to third state actors pursuing control over


Commons Chamber
Building Societies Act 1986 (Amendment) Bill
Report stage - Fri 19 Apr 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Gareth Davies (Con - Grantham and Stamford) also has the Yorkshire Building Society in her constituency, which has done great work on financial literacy - Speech Link
2: Julie Elliott (Lab - Sunderland Central) On Second Reading, I had not expected the political history lesson we had from Members on both sides - Speech Link


Bill Documents
19 Apr 2024 - Amendment Paper
HL Bill 57-II Second marshalled list for Report
Victims and Prisoners Bill 2022-23

Found: unable to provide that confirmation in writing as a result of P’s physical impairment or lack of literacy


Lords Chamber
NHS: Long-term Sustainability - Thu 18 Apr 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Lord Patel (XB - Life peer) It is the result of decades of political short-termism, a lack of long-term planning and an underinvestment - Speech Link
2: Lord Kakkar (XB - Life peer) are going to reach a position where we can develop a national consensus that brings together diverse political - Speech Link
3: Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen (Non-affiliated - Life peer) that poor user experience appeared to be around design and function rather than a lack of computer literacy - Speech Link
4: Lord Reid of Cardowan (Lab - Life peer) As I said, with each reform there was great political controversy.My final point is that thereafter there - Speech Link
5: Lord Markham (Con - Life peer) I freely accept that probably at this part of the political cycle we can have only so much of a conversation - Speech Link