£51 million Universal Support grant under Section 2 of the Employment and Training Act 1973

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Dear Department for Work and Pensions,

Since May 2010 how many grants has the DWP awarded under Section 2 of the Employment and Training Act 1973, which did not involve any open public public service contracts/tenders? Who did these grants get made to, for what purpose and how much £ was awarded for each?

One example of a grant that did not include any contract tenders was the £51 million given to:
'Citizens Advice to provide support to Universal Credit claimants
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) will fund Citizens Advice to provide Universal Support from April 2019, the government has announced.'
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/citiz...

With regards this £51 million fund example, what process and procedures did the DWP require Citizens Advice (CA) to undertake before the grant was awarded? Was it CA who first approached the DWP to fund a Universal Support (US) project or did the DWP approach CA on an unsolicited basis to provide this CA US? Which other organisations did the DWP approach, beside CA, to deliver the £51 million US project outlined in the grants:

CA https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/5...
CA Scotland https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/5...

Yours faithfully,

Frank Zola

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Dear DWP freedom-of-information-requests,

With regards the section of my request"

Since May 2010 how many grants has the DWP awarded under Section 2 of the Employment and Training Act 1973, which did not involve any open public public service contracts/tenders? Who did these grants get made to, for what purpose and how much £ was awarded for each?
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/p...

I wish to also ask for information on how many of these grants got awarded with an exemption under the GBER. “GBER” means Commission Regulation (EU) N°651/2014 of 17 June 2014 declaring certain categories of aid compatible with the internal market in application of Articles 107 and 108 of the Treaty;
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/5... GBER https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/...

Yours sincerely,

Frank Zola

no-reply@dwp.ecase.co.uk on behalf of DWP Strategy Freedom of Information, Department for Work and Pensions

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Dear Frank Zola,

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August.

Yours sincerely,

DWP Central FoI Team