Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when she plans to allocate further funding to the Support for Families with Disabled Children programme.

Each year, the support for families with disabled children (SFDC) programme provides individual grants to approximately 60,000 low-income families raising a disabled or seriously ill child. The department is pleased to support the SFDC programme, and we expect applications to the scheme to re-open shortly.

Future funding decisions beyond this financial year are subject to the ongoing spending review.