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Written question asked by Bob Spink (Independent (affiliation)) on Friday, 9 October 2009, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Tuesday, 13 October 2009. It was answered by Pat McFadden (Labour) on Tuesday, 27 October 2009 on behalf of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.

Charities

Question
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills what grants his Department and its predecessors made to charitable organisations in each of the last five years.
Answer

The Department may have given grants to charitable bodies through a number of our programmes, but the status of the organisations are not recorded. The Department, however, does provide grant in aid for operating purposes to the following organisations that are registered as charities. The organisations and amounts (where they are over £100,000) are as follows:

Budget
£000
2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10
Citizen Advice 23,855 21,470 21,470 ¹21,470 28,970
Citizen Advice Scotland 3,240 2,916 3,016 3,389 3,362
Design Council 6,035 6,605 6,179 6,435 6,475
UK Skills 2,800 3,200 5,000 5,900 10,100
Ufi/learndirect 201,000 171,000 156,000 158,000 145,000
Learning and Skills Improvement Service—(est October 2008) n/a n/a n/a 99,000 96,000
¹ HMT allocated an additional £2.5 million in PBR November 2008 to enable CABx to extend their opening hours for 2008-09—this money is ring-fenced.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
498 c339-40W; 292653
Session
2008-09
Subjects
Charities Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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