Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the news story, £22 million awarded to life-saving health charities during virus outbreak, published on 22 May 2020, how much of that funding has been (a) allocated to and (b) received by organisations to date.

The Department can confirm that the £22 million has been fully allocated.

Payments to the value of £21.3 million have been made to date. Payments to charities are being made in staged payments and expenditure plans show that the grants will be fully paid by the end of October.