Asked by: Robert Halfon (Conservative - Harlow)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of the total amount of funding from the public purse given by his Department to (a) civil society and (b) campaigning bodies in each of the last five years.
Answered by Chloe Smith
Grant agreement terms and conditions prohibit grant funding being used for paid for lobbying and political campaigning.
Data regarding Cabinet Office funding in 2016/2017 and 2017/2018 is published in the Government Grants register on GOV.UK at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/government-grants-register. Data for the 2018/2019 financial year will be published in due course.