Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what information his Department holds on the number of applications that UK Community Foundations has received for its onward grants of using Tampon Tax Fund money.
In 2018, UK Community Foundations (UKCF) were awarded £3.4 million from the Tampon Tax Fund to make onward grants to grassroots charities across the UK. In their end of year report submitted in March 2019, they outline that they received 1,469 applications in total to this onward grants fund, from which 407 grants were awarded.