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1581577

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date	27/01/2023
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	British Evacuees Association
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if her Department will take steps to provide support to the British Evacuees Association.
tabling member constituency	Dartford
tabling member printed	Gareth Johnson
uin	133983
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2023 answer text <p>With government support, charities and civil society organisations have shown significant resilience over the past few years.</p><p>Government is supporting all organisations, including charities such as the British Evacuees Association, with their energy bills. This support has now been extended until March 2024 via the Energy Bills Discount Scheme. This scheme provides long term certainty for organisations and reflects how the scale of the challenge has changed since September last year.</p><p>Whilst it is not usual for DCMS to provide direct funding to individual charities, the department will keep engaging constructively across the civil society sector to monitor the impact of rising costs, and signposting to other sources of funding where appropriate.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 06/02/2023 17:07:45 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	3970 label Biography information for Gareth Johnson

1581578

registered interest
date	27/01/2023
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	Charities: Finance
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 steps she is taking to help support charitable organisations with funding.
tabling member constituency	Dartford
tabling member printed	Gareth Johnson
uin	133984
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2023 answer text <p>With government support, charities and civil society organisations have shown significant resilience over the past few years, and will again be crucial in supporting communities and households through this challenging period.</p><p>Government is supporting all organisations, including those across the civil society sector, with their energy bills. This support has now been extended until March 2024 via the Energy Bills Discount Scheme. This scheme provides long term certainty for organisations and reflects how the scale of the challenge has changed since September last year.</p><p>Government’s support for energy bills sits alongside a range of existing funding that is delivered by central and local government in the form of grants and contracts. My Department will keep engaging constructively across the civil society sector to monitor the impact of rising costs, and signposting to other sources of funding where appropriate.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 06/02/2023 17:06:40 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	3970 label Biography information for Gareth Johnson

1581579

registered interest
date	27/01/2023
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	World War II: Anniversaries
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 steps her Department is taking to commemorate Second World War evacuees.
tabling member constituency	Dartford
tabling member printed	Gareth Johnson
uin	133985
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2023 answer text <p>Government supports the commemoration of Second World War evacuees through the work of public bodies of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, including the National Lottery Heritage Fund.</p><p>Since 1994, the National Lottery Heritage Fund has awarded 120 grants, totalling £1,088,450, to projects across 95 local authorities that are specifically related to Second World War Evacuee activities. The Heritage Fund also works with museums, libraries and archives across the UK, funding a range of history-related projects, some of which will also go towards commemorating Second World War evacuees.</p><p>The Department also directly sponsors Imperial War Museums, one of our national museums devoted to highlighting the stories and experiences of the Second World War, and evacuees.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 06/02/2023 17:05:39 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	3970 label Biography information for Gareth Johnson