Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport written question – answered am ar 22 Hydref 2019.
Vicky Foxcroft
Shadow Minister (Digital, Culture, Media and Sport) (Civil Society)
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what recent progress her Department has made on the implementation of the Innovation in Democracy Programme.
Nicky Morgan
The Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
The Innovation in Democracy Programme is supporting three local authorities to trial innovative models of deliberative democracy to involve citizens in local decision-making. The Greater Cambridge Partnership have completed their participatory sessions with local people, with the recommendations being delivered to the council shortly. Test Valley and Dudley authorities will be starting their area democracy forums this autumn.
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