§ Baroness Anelay of St Johnsasked Her Majesty's Government:
Further to the targets set in paragraph 36 of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport Social Inclusion Action Plan, whether the department has developed evaluation and monitoring criteria which can be made integral to regeneration and community-based programmes and projects; if so, whether those criteria have been published on the Department for Culture, Media and Sport website; and how they may be assessed via the site's search facility. [HL1551]
§ Lord McIntosh of HaringeyThe principal criteria against which a project's success will be judged will be its impact on one or more of the following social exclusion risk factors: employability, vulnerability to crime (as victim or perpetrator), educational achievement, and health. The methodology of66WA evaluation and monitoring will be developed by a researcher whom DCMS expects to appoint next month. DCMS will have initial findings from a sample of projects after 12 months and will also undertake some longer-term research. The research programme will continue to be discussed with an advisory group, and conclusions reached following the research programme will be published, including on the DCMS website, and shared with DCMS sponsored bodies, other departments, local authorities and the voluntary and private sectors.