It has come to my attention that a member of the MCB has been appointed as a trustee of the Inter Faith Network. Successive governments have had a longstanding policy of non-engagement with the MCB. The appointment of an MCB trustee to the board of the Inter Faith Network a government-funded organisation poses a reputational risk to government. I am therefore minded to withdraw the provisional offer of 155,000 of new funding for 2023-24.
The IFN said it had never been told that government funding was conditional on not having a trustee with links to the MCB. The IFN has also never been advised to seek to expel the MCB from membership on grounds such as the government's position of non-engagement, its co-chairs said in their reply to Gove's letter.
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