Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 7 December 2016 to Question 56626, for what reasons information that was held centrally from 2010 to 2014 on which charitable organisations her Department funds is no longer held centrally.
The Department’s financial system has never held information centrally that distinguished suppliers belonging to the voluntary and charitable sector. A manual process to identify them was discontinued in May 2014, when it was no longer required by the Cabinet Office.