Parliamentary Questions tabled on funding withdrawal decision

24 Nov 2009

Following discussions with Compact Voice on the OTS’ decision to abandon funding to the Campaign Research Programme, Tom Levitt MP has tabled two written questions, due for answer on 25th November.

These questions are:

• 17 Tom Levitt (High Peak): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much the Office of the Third Sector originally allocated in its budget to provide grants and funding for the voluntary and community sector for the current financial year; how much of this has so far been allocated; and how much remains for the rest of the financial year.
  (301962) 
• 18 Tom Levitt (High Peak): To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether her decision to divert funding from the Campaigning Research Programme to the Hardship Fund was made in compliance with Compact principles.
  (301964)

These questions are intended to address the Sector's concerns about the decision, calling for a statement from the Minister, and identifying issues around funding and grants for voluntary and community sector organisations.

Read more background on this issue as it unfolds.