1.1 The government agrees with the Committee’s recommendation. Target implementation date: September 2021 1.2 The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (the department or DCMS) will be able to set out current actions being undertaken to monitor and understand the financial health and resilience of the charity sector, including use of pandemic support schemes. 1.3 At this stage, there remain limitations and gaps in the evidence and data available to maintain a complete picture of the health and resilience of the charity sector. Drawing on learning from the COVID-19 pandemic, the department is working with partners, including the Charity Commission, to undertake a project to review and improve evidence and data available to policy makers, concerning the health and resilience of the charity and social enterprise sectors. 1.4 Options under consideration include making more effective use of existing sources of data and evidence, improving existing data sources, and commissioning new data collection mechanisms to fill gaps. The department will be able to provide an update on this work at the the Committee’s three-month deadline. However, plans for implementing change may not have been finalised at this point.