Department of Health: Lobbying
(asked on 16th June 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he has taken to ensure that no funding provided by his Department which reaches a third-party group is subsequently used to lobby his Department.
This question was answered on 24th June 2015
Funding applications from voluntary sector organisations are assessed against a number of criteria, but Departmental policy clearly states that grants will not be awarded if there is any indication within the application that some or all of any funding awarded will be used to support political activities, including political lobbying activity.