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date	14/04/2023
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Armed Forces Families Fund
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many applications to the armed forces families fund were (a) received, (b) approved and (c) declined since its launch in September 2022.
tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
tabling member printed	Luke Pollard
uin	180724
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2023 answer text <p>The Armed Forces Families Fund is managed and administered by the Armed Forces Covenant Trust (AFCT) on behalf of Defence who fund the scheme. Defence sets the themes for the scheme’s funding criteria, which is then delivered by the AFCT. The funding is based on financial rather than calendar years and is subject to the same annual budgetary cycle checks and assurances as all other expenditure within Defence. The first round of funding concluded in March this year and publicly available details on the applications and funding were released by the AFCT (see link: <a href="https://covenantfund.org.uk/projects-weve-supported/" target="_blank">https://covenantfund.org.uk/projects-weve-supported/</a>) which showed:</p><p>Early Years programme: 18 grants totalling £903,546</p><p>Supporting Partners programme: 12 grants totalling £483,144</p><p>Education Support programme: 54 grants totalling £2,045,593</p><p> </p><p>In addition, a grant of £119,647 was awarded to SSAFA over a two-year period for the e-Redbook project.</p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison grouped question UIN 180725 180726 180727 180728 question first answered 24/04/2023 16:51:19 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
tabling member	4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard

1610592

registered interest
date	14/04/2023
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Armed Forces Families Fund
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the armed forces families fund is budgeted by (a) financial or (b) calendar year.
tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
tabling member printed	Luke Pollard
uin	180725
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2023 answer text <p>The Armed Forces Families Fund is managed and administered by the Armed Forces Covenant Trust (AFCT) on behalf of Defence who fund the scheme. Defence sets the themes for the scheme’s funding criteria, which is then delivered by the AFCT. The funding is based on financial rather than calendar years and is subject to the same annual budgetary cycle checks and assurances as all other expenditure within Defence. The first round of funding concluded in March this year and publicly available details on the applications and funding were released by the AFCT (see link: <a href="https://covenantfund.org.uk/projects-weve-supported/" target="_blank">https://covenantfund.org.uk/projects-weve-supported/</a>) which showed:</p><p>Early Years programme: 18 grants totalling £903,546</p><p>Supporting Partners programme: 12 grants totalling £483,144</p><p>Education Support programme: 54 grants totalling £2,045,593</p><p> </p><p>In addition, a grant of £119,647 was awarded to SSAFA over a two-year period for the e-Redbook project.</p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison grouped question UIN 180724 180726 180727 180728 question first answered 24/04/2023 16:51:19 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
tabling member	4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard

1610593

registered interest
date	14/04/2023
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Armed Forces Families Fund
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, for how long his Department plans to provide funding to the armed forces families fund.
tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
tabling member printed	Luke Pollard
uin	180726
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2023 answer text <p>The Armed Forces Families Fund is managed and administered by the Armed Forces Covenant Trust (AFCT) on behalf of Defence who fund the scheme. Defence sets the themes for the scheme’s funding criteria, which is then delivered by the AFCT. The funding is based on financial rather than calendar years and is subject to the same annual budgetary cycle checks and assurances as all other expenditure within Defence. The first round of funding concluded in March this year and publicly available details on the applications and funding were released by the AFCT (see link: <a href="https://covenantfund.org.uk/projects-weve-supported/" target="_blank">https://covenantfund.org.uk/projects-weve-supported/</a>) which showed:</p><p>Early Years programme: 18 grants totalling £903,546</p><p>Supporting Partners programme: 12 grants totalling £483,144</p><p>Education Support programme: 54 grants totalling £2,045,593</p><p> </p><p>In addition, a grant of £119,647 was awarded to SSAFA over a two-year period for the e-Redbook project.</p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison grouped question UIN 180724 180725 180727 180728 question first answered 24/04/2023 16:51:19 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
tabling member	4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard

1610594

registered interest
date	14/04/2023
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Armed Forces Families Fund
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) successful and (b) unsuccessful applications were made to the armed forces families fund from each region since the establishment of that fund.
tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
tabling member printed	Luke Pollard
uin	180727
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2023 answer text <p>The Armed Forces Families Fund is managed and administered by the Armed Forces Covenant Trust (AFCT) on behalf of Defence who fund the scheme. Defence sets the themes for the scheme’s funding criteria, which is then delivered by the AFCT. The funding is based on financial rather than calendar years and is subject to the same annual budgetary cycle checks and assurances as all other expenditure within Defence. The first round of funding concluded in March this year and publicly available details on the applications and funding were released by the AFCT (see link: <a href="https://covenantfund.org.uk/projects-weve-supported/" target="_blank">https://covenantfund.org.uk/projects-weve-supported/</a>) which showed:</p><p>Early Years programme: 18 grants totalling £903,546</p><p>Supporting Partners programme: 12 grants totalling £483,144</p><p>Education Support programme: 54 grants totalling £2,045,593</p><p> </p><p>In addition, a grant of £119,647 was awarded to SSAFA over a two-year period for the e-Redbook project.</p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison grouped question UIN 180724 180725 180726 180728 question first answered 24/04/2023 16:51:19 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
tabling member	4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard

1610595

registered interest
date	14/04/2023
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Armed Forces Families Fund
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) successful and (b) unsuccessful applications were made to the armed forces families fund by service type since the establishment of that fund.
tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
tabling member printed	Luke Pollard
uin	180728
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2023 answer text <p>The Armed Forces Families Fund is managed and administered by the Armed Forces Covenant Trust (AFCT) on behalf of Defence who fund the scheme. Defence sets the themes for the scheme’s funding criteria, which is then delivered by the AFCT. The funding is based on financial rather than calendar years and is subject to the same annual budgetary cycle checks and assurances as all other expenditure within Defence. The first round of funding concluded in March this year and publicly available details on the applications and funding were released by the AFCT (see link: <a href="https://covenantfund.org.uk/projects-weve-supported/" target="_blank">https://covenantfund.org.uk/projects-weve-supported/</a>) which showed:</p><p>Early Years programme: 18 grants totalling £903,546</p><p>Supporting Partners programme: 12 grants totalling £483,144</p><p>Education Support programme: 54 grants totalling £2,045,593</p><p> </p><p>In addition, a grant of £119,647 was awarded to SSAFA over a two-year period for the e-Redbook project.</p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison grouped question UIN 180724 180725 180726 180727 question first answered 24/04/2023 16:51:19 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
tabling member	4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard

1610596

registered interest
date	14/04/2023
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Armed Forces Families Fund
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to objective 5.3 of the Armed Forces Families Plan 2022, published on 23 April 2022, what recent estimate he has made of when the early learning and childcare fund will be delivered.
tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
tabling member printed	Luke Pollard
uin	180729
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2023 answer text <p>The Early Learning and Childcare Fund (ELCF) has been replaced by a specific funding stream of the Armed Forces Families Fund which amalgamated the ELCF and the Education Support Fund. The Fund is administered on behalf of Defence by the Armed Forces Covenant Trust and the childcare funding stream accepted applications up until Monday 5 December 2022 for financial year 2022-23. The launch of the scheme for this financial year is likely to take place in the early autumn 2023</p><p><br> The Early Years Practitioner Network is in its early phase of existence but has a growing membership. The Ministry of Defence (MOD) provides coordination resource through a dedicated early learning and childcare officer. The MOD Local Authority Partnership for Early Years has been established and meets on a termly basis (three times per year). An assessment of the specific issues faced with obtaining childcare during periods of deployment will be considered in due course, following the completion of associated review activity.</p><p> </p><p>Work on the carers statement began with a stock take of existing Defence policy to identify the support that was already in place to support carers. This is being complimented with work to look at the lived experience of those carers within Defence and has included gathering evidence from families impacted through working very closely with the networks of existing carers champions within Defence and with such organisations as the Forces Additional Needs and Disability Forum. Defence are members of “employers for carers” which as part of the Carers UK organisation provides guidance and support for staff who may have carers within their workforce, and we have been actively promoting this throughout our workforce and have already seen a positive increase in engagement with this resource. Defence will continue to work toward a statement of intent regarding carers and aim to publish this following consultation with our stakeholders during the summer of 2023.</p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison grouped question UIN 180730 180731 180732 180733 180734 question first answered 20/04/2023 12:48:06 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
tabling member	4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard