Extracts from oral answer (Lords) on Social Capital Lord Haskel
(Lab) [V]: To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the report
by the Office for National Statistics Social capital in the UK:
2020, published on 20 February 2020, what steps they are taking to
rebuild social capital. The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,
Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (Baroness Barran)
(Con): My Lords, social capital is the fabric that binds our
communities together. Sources, such...Request free trial
Extracts from oral
answer (Lords) on Social Capital
(Lab) [V]:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the report by the
Office for National Statistics Social capital in the UK: 2020,
published on 20 February 2020, what steps they are taking to
rebuild social capital.
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for
Digital, Culture, Media and Sport () (Con):
My Lords, social capital is the fabric that binds our
communities together. Sources, such as the ONS and our Community
Life COVID-19 Re-contact Survey, shape the steps that build
communities. Covid shows that there is much to build on. The number
of people who informally volunteer increased to 47% during the
pandemic. This Government were elected to level up the country: our
£4 billion levelling-up fund, our £1.5 billion shared prosperity fund and the
£1.57 billion culture recovery fund, as well as a raft of other
commitments, will help build social capital across communities, as
we build back better...
(LD)
[V]: My Lords, the limited research available during
this pandemic suggests that the increase in neighbourly kindness
and community activity has been more prevalent in better-off areas.
If the Government are intent on levelling up, how much of the
levelling-up fund are they proposing to spend on social
infrastructure, given that in most of the examples that I can see
the Government are rightly dealing with economic disadvantage—that
is, infrastructure and economic activity? How are the Government
proposing to redress the imbalance in social capital?
(Con):
The noble Lord is absolutely right; it is not just about what
we do and what we spend on but how we do it and who we involve. I
point the noble Lord to the shared prosperity fund on which
we will get more detail in the spring, where there is a clear
ambition to invest in civic institutions and community-owned assets
and give that sense of connection and agency that every community
deserves.
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Extract from DWP
questions
(Delyn) (Con): What steps her Department
is taking to help people whose sectors have been particularly
affected by the covid-19 outbreak to switch careers.
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Work and
Pensions ():
Our plan for jobs is providing a range of vital, tailored
employment support for all jobseekers who are looking to move
sector; targeting support for those impacted by the pandemic; and
linking into local recovery plans. The plan includes DWP’s job
finding support, or JFS; sector-based work academy programmes, or
SWAPs; job entry targeted support, or JETS; and our new restart
programme. It will also utilise the forthcoming UK shared prosperity fund
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