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date	26/04/2019
answering body	Women and Equalities
answering dept id	31
answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
hansard heading	Candidates: Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, how many applications have been made to the EnAble Fund.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
uin	248038
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/05/2019 answer text <p>The Government Equalities Office launched the EnAble Fund in December 2018, providing grants to help cover disability-related expenses that candidates might face when seeking elected office. There have been around fifty applications to the fund since then.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 01/05/2019 15:52:21 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

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registered interest
date	18/03/2019
answering body	Women and Equalities
answering dept id	31
answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
hansard heading	Candidates: Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what support will be available for disabled candidates standing for upcoming parliamentary elections.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
uin	233586
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2019 answer text <p>The Government Equalities Office launched the £250,000 EnAble Fund in December 2018, which provides grants to help cover disability-related expenses people might face when seeking elected office, to ensure support is in place for the forthcoming local elections in May.</p><p> </p><p>Furthermore, the Minister for the Constitution has recently passed legislation to exclude disability-related expenses from candidates’ spending limits.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 21/03/2019 16:54:23 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1059788

registered interest
date	12/02/2019
answering body	Women and Equalities
answering dept id	31
answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
hansard heading	Candidates: Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, pursuant to the Answer of 8 February 2019 to Question 217059, on Candidates: Disability, what plans her Department has in place for expanding the EnAble Fund to support deaf and disabled candidates in the event of (a) a General Election called before March 2020 or (b) the exhaustion of the Fund.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	220173
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/02/2019 answer text <p>The EnAble Fund for Elected Office is an interim fund and is therefore time bound with limited funding. It is primarily for the forthcoming English local elections in May.</p><p>The Government is clear that political parties are responsible for supporting their disabled candidates (as defined by the Equality Act 2010). We are undertaking a programme of work to help parties to put long-term sustainable solutions in place.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 18/02/2019 16:59:06 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas