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Top Tory denies that Covid help for vulnerable was 'inadequate'

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December 02, 2025

A FORMER Conservative cabinet minister has rejected claims that financial support for charities supporting vulnerable people in the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic was inadequate.

Giving evidence to the Covid-19 inquiry, former culture secretary Oliver Dowden insisted the voluntary sector was "considered on its own merits" when it was allocated £750 million in emergency funding in April 2020.

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