Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications for a grant from the 2022-23 Windrush community engagement fund were approved before the scheme was withdrawn.

Due to internal processing delays in assessing bids for the Community Engagement Fund 2022-23, the Home Office took the decision to withdraw the competition in February this year. Continuing with this competition would have left organisations with very little time to complete their proposed projects before the end of the 22/23 financial year. None of the applications for the grant fund were approved before withdrawal.