The Cabinet Office grants register for 2014/15 shows that Whitehall departments spent £132bn on grant funding, £9.7bn of which went to non-profit organisations.

But eight of the ten largest grants to non-profit bodies most were to education institutions. The Cabinet Office grant for National Citizen Service was the tenth-largest grant at £119m.

The Cabinet Office handed out £279m in grants, with the majority - £252m - going to non-profit bodies. This included its last grant to Kids Company of £4.5m, £36m to set up the Access Foundation and £6m for the Social Innovation Fund.

These are the top 15 grants made by the Cabinet Office:

1. National Citizen Service (NCS)  - providers:    £119.35m
2. Access (MDF):    £36m
3. Big Lottery Fund - Advice Services Transition Fund:    £16.55m
4. The Social Investment Business - Centre for Social Action Funds:    £11.03m
5. NCS - core costs:    £10.23m
6. CDF - Community First Neighbourhood Match Fund:    £9.43m
7. Nesta - Innovation Fund:    £6m
8. Youth United - Uniformed Youth Social Action Fund:    £5.82m
9. The Social Investment Business - Investment and Contract Readiness Fund:    £5.69m
10. Kids Company  - Youth Policy Grant:    £4.5m
11. Locality - Community Organisers Progression Grant:    £2.93m
12. Join In Trust - Olympic Volunteering Legacy:    £1.7m
13. Age UK/British Red Cross/Royal Voluntary Service - Reducing Winter Pressures on Hospitals:    £1.63m
14. Mind - Blue Lights Mental Health:    £1.62m
15. Locality - Community Organisers Main Bursary Grant Programme:    £1.49m

It had previously published the 2013/14 data on the data.gov site and that data has now been included on the main Cabinet Office site. Last year £147bn was awarded across all departments and all sectors.

Because of a change in how the government categorises organisations it is not possible to directly compare the amount given to non-profit organisations – but a Civil Society News analysis of the data suggested that the voluntary and community sector received around £1.52bn.

Following the Kids Company debacle MPs called for the creation of a grants register and the Treasury has promised to conduct a “fundamental review”. Separately the Cabinet Office announced that all organisations receiving government grants will not be able to use that money to lobby government.

In response to a question in Parliament this week about whether charities report surplus funds awarded to them, Rob Wilson, minister for civil society, said: “All charities in receipt of government grants should submit a final budget reconciliation to the grant giver at the end of the grant demonstrating how all funds have been spent on the activities specified in the grant letter.

“The Cabinet Office’s published standard terms and conditions of the grant includes the right to recover the grant if it has not been used for the purposes and activities agreed or if terms and conditions have not been met.”