The Department reduced the funding allocation to TNLCF from £310 million to £200 million around one week before it was due to start distributing funding.33 When asked why this was the case, the Department told us that it was due to the fact that Ministers wanted more flexibility in how funding was distributed and were interested in whether more could be done to leverage private donations as part of the funding distribution.34 It clarified that the decision was “absolutely not” because of a la...

The Department reduced the funding allocation to TNLCF from £310 million to £200 million around one week before it was due to start distributing funding.33 When asked why this was the case, the Department told us that it was due to the fact that Ministers wanted more flexibility in how funding was distributed and were interested in whether more could be done to leverage private donations as part of the funding distribution.34 It clarified that the decision was “absolutely not” because of a lack of trust in TNLCF.35 The funding that was removed from TNLCF was instead later allocated to the new Community Match 25 Q 51 26 C&AG’s Report, para 1.8 Type: conclusion | Number: 10 | Response status: under_consideration Government response: The government agrees with the Committee’s recommendation. Target implementation date: September 2021 1.2 The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (the department or DCMS) will be able to set out current actions being undertaken to monitor and u