Question follow-through · 70488
Common Purpose: Finance
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, whether the Cabinet Office has funded Common Purpose since 4 July 2024.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Women and Equalities
- Tabled
- 29 Aug 2025
- Target answer date
- 2 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 9 Oct 2025 · 41 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
29 Aug 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, whether the Cabinet Office has funded Common Purpose since 4 July 2024.
2 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Oct 2025
Answer published
Common Purpose was paid to provide a one-off day of team development for the Office of Equality and Opportunity in February 2025.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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