PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Kids Company: Finance (4 September 2015)

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.

Asked by:
Lisa Nandy (Labour)

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.

Answered by:
Mr Rob Wilson (Conservative)
11 September 2015