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Social Enterprises: Community Development

Asked by Euan StainbankLabourCabinet OfficeTabled Answered 3 December 2025UIN 94863

The question

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps the Office for the Impact Economy is taking with social investors to increase funding for communities.

Answered by Josh Simons

Social investors and philanthropists across the country are already working in partnership with local community organisations to improve people’s daily lives.

The Office for the Impact Economy will act as the front door to social investors who want to partner with the government to unlock funding for local communities. The Office will create partnerships, including investment opportunities, to scale up the impact of public investment and develop opportunities for communities across the UK.

This includes opportunities to make government spending go further on priority programmes such as Pride in Place and Neighbourhood Health Services.

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