Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 23 February 2016 to Question 26852, what funding she expects will be provided for the Fostering Network in (a) 2016-17, (b) 2017-18, (c) 2018-19 and (d) 2019-20.

The Department does not hold the information requested. We will be making available opportunities for voluntary and community sector organisations to bid for grants and contracts to undertake specific activity which addresses ministerial priorities, including fostering, during this Parliament.

We anticipate that grant and contract funding opportunities will be published on the Contracts Finder website, www.gov.uk/contracts-finder, in due course, with further funding opportunities to be offered later in the 2016 to 2017 financial year.