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1092257

	registered interest
	date	20/03/2019
	answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept id	10
	answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Sanitary Products: VAT
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, for what reasons the minimum bid to apply for funding from the Tampon Tax Fund was increased to £1 million.
	tabling member constituency	South Shields
	tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
	uin	234846
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2019 answer text <p>The minimum bid to the Tampon Tax Fund was set at £1 million in December 2017, with the launch of the 2018-2019 round of funding to achieve a more cohesive and strategic approach to addressing the issues facing vulnerable and excluded women across the UK.</p><p> </p><p>To ensure that smaller organisations were not disadvantaged by this change we also encouraged applications from organisations whose projects included making onward grants. In March 2018, we awarded over £5 million to organisations making onward grants and as a result 498 grants have been made to small and medium sized charities.</p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 25/03/2019 15:47:36 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

1092258

	registered interest
	date	20/03/2019
	answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept id	10
	answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Sanitary Products: VAT
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how many applications for funding were made to the Tampon Tax Fund in each year since 2015.
	tabling member constituency	South Shields
	tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
	uin	234847
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2019 answer text <p>The Chancellor of the Exchequer announced the Tampon Tax Fund in the Autumn Statement 2015, granting funding to four organisations: Eve Appeal, SafeLives and Women’s Aid, and The Haven, and inviting applications for further grant funding.</p><p> </p><p>The number of applications made to the Tampon Tax Fund in each year are as follows:</p><p> </p><ul><li>2016 - 45 applications</li><li>2017 - 850 applications</li><li>2018 - 195 applications</li><li>2019 - 138 applications</li></ul><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 25/03/2019 15:48:52 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

1092254

	registered interest
	date	20/03/2019
	answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept id	10
	answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Sanitary Products: VAT
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how much of the funding UK Community Foundation and Women’s Aid Federation of England were given from the 2017-2018 Tampon Tax Fund has been used for their own administration of those grants.
	tabling member constituency	South Shields
	tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
	uin	234844
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2019 answer text <p>In the 2018-19 round of Tampon Tax Funding, UK Community Foundations were awarded £3.4 million from the Tampon Tax Fund to run an onward grants programme across the UK, of which £219,380 has been allocated to administration. The Women’s Aid Federation of England were awarded £1,509,850 for a project addressing domestic abuse, of which £609,040 was designated for onward grants. The cost of administering these grants has not been separated from the general costs of running their programme of activities.</p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 25/03/2019 15:44:48 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

1122645

	registered interest
	date	24/04/2019
	answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept id	10
	answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Sanitary Products: VAT
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of restricting the Tampon Tax Fund to charities which specialise in women’s issues.
	tabling member constituency	South Shields
	tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
	uin	247081
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2019 answer text <p>The purpose of the Tampon Tax Fund is to allocate the funds generated from the VAT on sanitary products to projects that improve the lives of disadvantaged women and girls. The existing criteria for the Fund - with the focus on onwards grants to small and medium sized charities and direct support for vulnerable women and girls - maximise the reach and impact of the Tampon Tax Fund across the UK. Whether directly or through onwards grants, tampon tax fund is exclusively made available to projects that support vulnerable women and girls.</p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 29/04/2019 17:58:19 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

1092586

	registered interest
	date	21/03/2019
	answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept id	10
	answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	UK Community Foundations
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what information his Department holds on the number of applications that UK Community Foundations has received for its onward grants of using Tampon Tax Fund money.
	tabling member constituency	South Shields
	tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
	uin	235283
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2019 answer text <p>In 2018, UK Community Foundations (UKCF) were awarded £3.4 million from the Tampon Tax Fund to make onward grants to grassroots charities across the UK. In their end of year report submitted in March 2019, they outline that they received 1,469 applications in total to this onward grants fund, from which 407 grants were awarded.</p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 26/03/2019 13:59:44 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

1092255

	registered interest
	date	20/03/2019
	answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept id	10
	answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Sanitary Products: VAT
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, when the criterion for the Tampon Tax Fund that the value of the grant requested in each financial year must not represent more than 50 per cent of the applicant organisation’s annual income was introduced.
	tabling member constituency	South Shields
	tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
	uin	234845
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2019 answer text <p>The criterion that the amount of grant funding a grant recipient receives per financial year should not exceed 50% of that financial year’s annual income was first included in the Guidance to Applicants to the 2017/18 Tampon Tax Fund, which was launched on 1st December 2016.</p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 25/03/2019 15:46:11 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck