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date	25/01/2021
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Charities: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 21 January 2021 to Question 138922 on Charities: Finance, what the deadline is by which charities must have used grant funding.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	142896
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2021 answer text <p>The latest that grants must be spent is 31 March 2021. The £750m funding package was made available to address the immediate impacts of the pandemic, so that charities and other civil society organisations, including those at risk of financial hardship, can continue their vital work during the Covid-19 outbreak.</p><p> </p><p>The government keeps all sector support packages under review.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Kemi Badenoch question first answered 28/01/2021 10:38:09 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1277669

registered interest
date	18/01/2021
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Charities: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will remove the 31 March 2021 deadline by which charities and the voluntary sector must spend any grant funding received from the £750 million fund for frontline charities.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	138922
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2021 answer text <p>The Government has announced a £750 million support package for charities to enable vital work during the pandemic.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>This includes up to £200m for hospices and £360 million direct from Government departments, supporting organisations like St John Ambulance and the Citizens Advice Bureau as well as charities supporting children, victims of domestic abuse, or disabled people.</p><p> </p><p>£200 million is being distributed by the National Lottery Community Fund through the Coronavirus Community Support Fund. More than 98% of this funding has been disbursed to recipient charities.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has matched public donations to the BBC’s “Big Night In” charity appeal, with over £37 million being distributed by Comic Relief, Children In Need and the National Emergencies Trust to charities on the frontline.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has also announced 19 philanthropists, foundations and grant-making organisations to receive a share of match funding from the £85 million Community Match Challenge, generating £170 million for charities’ vital work.</p><p> </p><p>The government keeps all sector support packages under review</p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Kemi Badenoch question first answered 21/01/2021 14:33:43 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1201873

registered interest
date	09/06/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Charities: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans he has to provide additional support to medical charities to help those charities maintain (a) their research work and (b) provision of their wider services during the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	57269
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2020 answer text <p>Science and innovation is a priority for the Government. That is why we have committed to increase economywide investment in R&amp;D to 2.4%, and at Budget 2020, announced the biggest ever uplift in public R&amp;D investment. The Budget also provided the British Business Bank with £200 million of additional funding for health technology and life sciences firms. Over the next five years this is expected to attract a further £400 million of additional private investment for the sector which will also help bring new and promising health innovation to the market and reach more people.</p><p> </p><p>To deal with the immediate situation, the Government has set out a £750 million package of support for charities providing key services and supporting vulnerable people during the COVID-19 crisis. Part of the funding for charities is being disbursed with £360 million directly allocated by government departments. The most up to date information is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/coronavirus-covid-19-guidance-for-the-charity-sector#government-financial-support-for-charities" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/coronavirus-covid-19-guidance-for-the-charity-sector#government-financial-support-for-charities</a>. Our aim is to get funding to those in greatest need as soon as possible.</p><p> </p><p>Health services have never been more needed than they are now. The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) is responsible for allocating funding to health charities and making decisions about the criteria and effectiveness of the services they are funding. Further details about funding awarded to this sector and the types or organisations supported is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/22-million-awarded-to-life-saving-health-charities-during-virus-outbreak" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/news/22-million-awarded-to-life-saving-health-charities-during-virus-outbreak</a>.</p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Kemi Badenoch grouped question UIN 57271 question first answered 17/06/2020 16:04:19 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1201876

registered interest
date	09/06/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Charities: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimates he has made of the potential costs to the NHS as a consequence of the loss of income to medical charities as a result of the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	57271
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2020 answer text <p>Science and innovation is a priority for the Government. That is why we have committed to increase economywide investment in R&amp;D to 2.4%, and at Budget 2020, announced the biggest ever uplift in public R&amp;D investment. The Budget also provided the British Business Bank with £200 million of additional funding for health technology and life sciences firms. Over the next five years this is expected to attract a further £400 million of additional private investment for the sector which will also help bring new and promising health innovation to the market and reach more people.</p><p> </p><p>To deal with the immediate situation, the Government has set out a £750 million package of support for charities providing key services and supporting vulnerable people during the COVID-19 crisis. Part of the funding for charities is being disbursed with £360 million directly allocated by government departments. The most up to date information is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/coronavirus-covid-19-guidance-for-the-charity-sector#government-financial-support-for-charities" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/coronavirus-covid-19-guidance-for-the-charity-sector#government-financial-support-for-charities</a>. Our aim is to get funding to those in greatest need as soon as possible.</p><p> </p><p>Health services have never been more needed than they are now. The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) is responsible for allocating funding to health charities and making decisions about the criteria and effectiveness of the services they are funding. Further details about funding awarded to this sector and the types or organisations supported is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/22-million-awarded-to-life-saving-health-charities-during-virus-outbreak" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/news/22-million-awarded-to-life-saving-health-charities-during-virus-outbreak</a>.</p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Kemi Badenoch grouped question UIN 57269 question first answered 17/06/2020 16:04:19 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1196786

registered interest
date	18/05/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Charities: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will ensure that local authorities are provided with sufficient funding to provide grants to all charities in receipt of charitable rate relief.
tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
uin	48336
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/06/2020 answer text <p>The Government is aware that some small businesses and organisations have found themselves excluded from the existing business grants schemes because of the way they interact with the business rates system. That is why the Government has allocated up to an additional £617 million to Local Authorities to enable them to give discretionary grants to organisations in this situation. The Government’s intention is for Local Authorities to prioritise the following types of organisation when making discretionary grants:</p><p> </p><ul><li>Small businesses in shared offices or other flexible workspaces for example, industrial parks, science parks, incubators etc, which do not have their own business rates assessment;</li><li>Regular market traders who do not have their own business rates assessment;</li><li>B&amp;Bs which pay Council Tax instead of business rates; and</li><li>Charity properties in receipt of charitable business rates relief which would otherwise have been eligible for Small Business Rates Relief or Rural Rate Relief<p> </p></li></ul><p>Local Authorities may choose to focus payments on those priority groups which are most relevant to their local areas. Local Authorities may also choose to pay grants to organisations outside of these priority groups, according to local economic need, so long as the organisation was trading on 11<sup>th</sup> March, and has not received any other cash grant funded by central Government (with the exception of grants from the SEISS).</p><p> </p><p>In addition, the Government has announced a £750m support package for charities. £360m of this will be allocated directly to charities providing essential services and supporting vulnerable people, including up to £200m for hospices across the next quarter. A further £310m will support smaller, local charities, including through grants distributed by the National Lottery Community Fund. £60m will be allocated to the Devolved Administrations through the Barnett formula. The Government pledged to match whatever the public donated to the BBC Big Night In fundraiser on 23 April, with a minimum of £20m going to the National Emergencies Trust.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Kemi Badenoch question first answered 02/06/2020 06:50:16 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch
tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper