Speeches

Tim Loughton – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Cabinet Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tim Loughton on 2016-02-04.

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much has been spent on the National Citizenship Service programme in each of the last five years.

Mr Rob Wilson

The Autumn 2015 Spending Review announced over £1 billion to expand the National Citizen Service and the ambition is for NCS to cover 60% of all 16 year olds by 2020/21. The following table shows the funding provided by Government for the delivery of NCS since the programme commenced.

Year

Government Funding

2011/12

£21 million

2012/13

£62 million

2013/14

£84 million

2014/15

£130 million