THE BIG SOCIETY

That this House calls for an investigation into the financial consequences of the Big Society project that resulted in funding shortfalls suffered by efficient, deserving charities because of the use of a new fund operated through the Cabinet Office under the direction of the Prime Minister to favour charities closely identified with the Big Society project; believes that this was a Government slush fund; and notes that Camila Batmanghelidjh, who has been described by a former Minister in the 2010 to 2015 Government as the poster girl of the Big Society, attended the project's launch at 10 Downing Street and was rewarded with donations to her Kids Company charity of almost a third of all funding that went to the 18 youth organisations who successfully applied in 2011, 2012 and 2013, in spite of ministerial misgivings.