PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Access to Elected Office for Disabled People Fund (10 February 2015)

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, how many people have applied for the Access to Elected Office for Disabled People Fund in each year since its establishment; and what estimate she has made of the total grants from that date to May 2015.

Asked by:
Alison McGovern (Labour)

The number of people who have made applications to the Access to Elected Office fund by year is in the table.

Financial Year	Number of applicants
2012/13	27
2013/14	34
2014/15 (to date)	34

The total value of Grants awarded to date (from July 2012 to January 2015) is £399,061, and applications totalling £92,442 are currently pending. Total grant expenditure will depend on the final number of successful applications between now and the end of March 2015, after which date the fund will cease to take applications.

Answered by:
Jo Swinson (Liberal Democrat)
19 February 2015