Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding her Department provided for support for deaf awareness training in schools in (a) St Helens North constituency, (b) the North West and (c) England in the last 12 months for which figures are available.

We have not provided any funding specifically for deaf awareness training. However, over the past six years, we have provided £2.25million of funding to a partnership of sensory impairment charities through the National Sensory Impairment Partnership (NatSIP), to improve outcomes for children and young people with sensory impairment. Through NatSIP, we have worked with charities such as the National Deaf Children’s Society to produce resources such as the 'Supporting the achievement of deaf children' pack, a comprehensive set of guides on how teachers can support children and young people with hearing impairment. In addition, as set out in the Equality Act 2010, we expect all schools to support disabled children and young people, including by making reasonable adjustments to prevent them from suffering discrimination.