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Zoos Support Fund

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Question for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

UIN 52084, tabled on 20 May 2020

Question

Douglas Chapman
Scottish National Party
Dunfermline and West Fife
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 13 May 2020 to Question 43677, what the total amount of funding available through the Zoo Support Fund is for England; and whether this fund qualifies for Barnett consequentials.

Answer

Victoria Prentis
Conservative
Banbury
Commons

Answered on

4 June 2020

The Zoos Support Fund (ZSF) is £14 million in total for England. The ZSF qualifies for Barnett consequentials. As a result of this package, the Devolved Administrations will receive £2.1 million in additional funding.

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