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John Bunyan Fund for Freedom of Religion and Belief

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Question for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

UIN 37266, tabled on 11 March 2025

Question

Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
Labour
Slough
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what criteria his Department uses to assess applications to the John Bunyan Fund.

Answer

Stephen Doughty
Labour
Cardiff South and Penarth
Commons

Answered on

19 March 2025

The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office's John Bunyan Fund provides funding to overseas posts to support the promotion and protection of freedom of religion or belief (FoRB) for all around the world. UK posts are invited to submit applications that support the central objective of the fund: to curtail FoRB violations and abuses. Diplomatic missions have full control over the exact design and scope of project work to best develop an intervention that suits their specific in-country context and priorities and is complementary to any other financing they receive.

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