Coronavirus: Charities

(asked on 23rd March 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what plans her Department has to allocate additional emergency funding to UK international development charities to ensure those charities do not (a) close, (b) cut programmes and (c) retrench staff as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.


Answered by
Wendy Morton Portrait
Wendy Morton
This question was answered on 31st March 2020

DFID is talking to our partners to look at ways to address the challenges posed to them and their projects by COVID-19. We will work collaboratively with our partners and take a flexible approach in order to find pragmatic solutions to support both our partners and our programmes.

DFID is implementing the UK government position on supplier partner relief to ensure that we offer support where this is appropriate.

Under the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, all UK employers will be able to access support to continue paying part of their employees’ salary for those employees that would otherwise have been laid off during this crisis

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