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Voluntary Sector

Volume 456: debated on Wednesday 31 January 2007

5. To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster whether the compact on relations with the voluntary sector covers the speed of payment from Departments to voluntary sector organisations. (112465)

The Compact Code of Good Practice on Funding and Procurement includes a clear undertaking that Departments and agencies should make payments on time.

7. To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster by what date the Government expect three-year funding to be established for public funding of the voluntary sector. (112467)

The pre-Budget report stated that in the comprehensive spending review covering 2008 to 2011, Departments and agencies should pass on the flexibility and certainty of three-year funding to third sector organisations as the norm not the exception.