Asked by: Lisa Nandy (Labour - Wigan)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will place in the Library a full list of attendees from charities invited to No. 10 Downing Street to meet the Prime Minister in May 2010.
Answered by Rob Wilson
Details of meetings between ministers and external organisations are available on https://www.gov.uk as well as details of official and charity receptions held at 10 Downing Street.
Asked by: Lisa Nandy (Labour - Wigan)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will place in the Library a copy of the minutes and a list of the attendees of the meeting between the then Minister for Government Policy and the Big Society Network in September 2010.
Answered by Rob Wilson
Details of meetings between ministers and external organisations are available on https://www.gov.uk as well as details of official and charity receptions held at 10 Downing Street.
Asked by: Lisa Nandy (Labour - Wigan)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will place in the Library a copy of the minutes and a list of the attendees of the meeting between the then Minister for Civil Society and the Big Society Network in March 2012.
Answered by Rob Wilson
Details of meetings between ministers and external organisations are available on https://www.gov.uk as well as details of official and charity receptions held at 10 Downing Street.
Asked by: Lisa Nandy (Labour - Wigan)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will place in the Library a copy of the minutes and a list of the attendees of the meeting between the then Minister for Civil Society and the Big Society Network in May 2012.
Answered by Rob Wilson
Details of meetings between ministers and external organisations are available on https://www.gov.uk as well as details of official and charity receptions held at 10 Downing Street.
Asked by: Lisa Nandy (Labour - Wigan)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will place in the Library a copy of the minutes and a list of the attendees of the meeting between the then Minister for Civil Society and the Big Society Network in February 2012.
Answered by Rob Wilson
Details of meetings between ministers and external organisations are available on https://www.gov.uk as well as details of official and charity receptions held at 10 Downing Street.
Asked by: Lisa Nandy (Labour - Wigan)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will place in the Library (a) a copy of the minutes and (b) a list of attendees of the meeting between the Prime Minister and Big Society Network that was held in July 2013.
Answered by Rob Wilson
I was appointed as the Minister for Civil Society on 27 September 2014, after the publication of the NESTA document.
No meeting to discuss the funding of Big Society Network took place between Cabinet Office, the Big Society Network and NESTA.
Details of meetings between the Prime Minister and external organisations are available on the gov.uk website.
Asked by: Lisa Nandy (Labour - Wigan)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Report by Geoff Mulgan published on 21 August 2014 on NESTA support for the Big Society Network, when he was first made aware of NESTA's concerns about the capacity of the Big Society Network team, the gap between ambition and capability and the Big Society Network's relative newness as an organisation.
Answered by Rob Wilson
I was appointed as the Minister for Civil Society on 27 September 2014, after the publication of the NESTA document.
No meeting to discuss the funding of Big Society Network took place between Cabinet Office, the Big Society Network and NESTA.
Details of meetings between the Prime Minister and external organisations are available on the gov.uk website.
Asked by: Lisa Nandy (Labour - Wigan)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will publish the minutes, redacted if necessary, of any discussions between his Department, the Big Society Network and NESTA on the funding of the Big Society Network.
Answered by Rob Wilson
I was appointed as the Minister for Civil Society on 27 September 2014, after the publication of the NESTA document.
No meeting to discuss the funding of Big Society Network took place between Cabinet Office, the Big Society Network and NESTA.
Details of meetings between the Prime Minister and external organisations are available on the gov.uk website.
Asked by: Lisa Nandy (Labour - Wigan)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what guidance he issues to government departments on best practice to adopt when approaching (a) independent charities and (b) non-departmental public bodies for funding for departmental programmes or policies.
Answered by Rob Wilson
The Cabinet Office has cross government responsibility for the national Compact, which is the agreement between government and the voluntary and community sector (which includes independent charities). The Compact provides a framework for ways of working including the approach to funding relationships. Departments are expected to follow the principles set out in Managing Public Money
Asked by: Lisa Nandy (Labour - Wigan)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the internal review by Geoff Mulgan published on 21 August 2014 on NESTA support for the Big Society Network, if he will publish all correspondence between (a) Lord Wei and NESTA and (b) Paul Twivy, Steve Moore, Giles Gibbons and Martyn Rose and his Department on NESTA funding for (i) the Big Society Network, (ii) Big Society Capital and (iii) any other project NESTA has been requested by his Department to support since May 2010.
Answered by Rob Wilson
Whilst NESTA's internal review highlights that Lord Wei, among others, made a request suggesting that they consider various initiatives, no formal instruction from Government was made. NESTA’s internal review is also clear that this was not an instruction from the Government. Lord Wei was not a Government Minister.
We constantly keep procedures and policies under review. In this instance, NESTA’s internal review did not highlight anything of relevance in this regard.
Lord Wei did not request that that NESTA fund any organisations and, therefore, there is no such correspondence.