Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department plans to mark the centenary of women getting the right to vote in 1918.

The government has set aside £5m to celebrate this milestone in British democracy. Goverment wants to ensure that we support a range of organisations and communities to get involved.

£1.5million will be available to organisations and communities through a grants scheme. Further information can be found at: www.womensvotecentenaryfund.co.uk

In the Autumn budget, the Chancellor announced that £1.2million of the centenary fund would go directly to seven Centenary Cities and towns in England with a strong suffrage history, to strengthen the reach and legacy of regional activity to inspire a new generation with this story.

My Officials in the Government Equalities Office are developing an exciting national programme to celebrate and remember the suffrage movement. This includes funding the statue of Millicent Fawcett in Parliament Square, and a suite of education programmes in partnership with the Department for Education and the Cabinet Office.