Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department’s Help to Claim contract with Citizen’s Advice contains clauses preventing Citizen’s Advice from bringing his Department into disrepute.

The Help to Claim Grant Funding Agreement is based on a Model Grant Funding Agreement that uses standard provisions that allow exit from the Grant Funding Agreement if the grant recipient takes any actions which unfairly bring, or are likely to unfairly bring, the Department or its name or reputation into disrepute.