Kids Company: Finance

(asked on 4th September 2015) - View Source

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what discussions Ministers in his Department had with (a) the Prime Minister and (b) the Prime Minister's Special Advisers before deciding to overrule his Department's Permanent Secretary's advice not to proceed with funding for Kids Company.


Answered by
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Rob Wilson
This question was answered on 11th September 2015

To enable a space for the free and frank exchange of views, it is a long-standing convention that specific details about conversations between Ministers are not normally disclosed. The decision to give Kids Company the additional £3m in July was made by Oliver Letwin and Matthew Hancock.

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