Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government which organisations, in each of the last five years, have received funding under section 64 of the Health Services and Public Health Act 1968; and whether they will set out the name and amount of funding given to each organisation and any attached conditions or restrictions on its use.

Tables have been attached which provide information on awards made under Section 64 of the Health and Public Health Act 1968 for the financial years 2010-11 to 2014-15 in relation to the following;

- Innovation, Excellence and Service Development Fund;

- Strategic Partner Programme;

- Financial Assistance Fund;

- Children’s Hospice and Hospice at Home Grants;

- Homeless Hospital Discharge Fund (HHDF); and

- Other grants awarded under Section 64 outside the main schemes (for the years 2013-14 and 2014-15 only).

Information on Section 64 grants made outside the main schemes for the years 2010-11 to 2012-13 is not available in the format requested from central records and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.

Standard conditions are included in the award letters for all Section 64 grants. These are reviewed on a regular basis. The current standard template used for grant awards made under Section 64 of the Health Services and Public Health Act 1968 has also been attached.

In addition to the standard terms and conditions of award, individual grant awards may include additional conditions. These are not collated centrally and would require examination of every grant awarded during the last five years. Therefore this could only be provided at disproportionate cost.