Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 16 March 2016 to Question 30139, what steps she plans to take to expand grant funding projects to other local authorities to support young carers under the age of 16, similar to that provided by Suffolk family carers.

My Department will make decisions about grant funding for further work to support young carers on the basis of:

• the quantitative research report on young carers in England;

• the evaluation reports of the programmes of work carried out by Suffolk Family Carers and Carers Trust; and

• evidence submitted to the Government’s carers strategy call for evidence https://consultations.dh.gov.uk/carers/how-can-we-improve-support-for-carers

The research and evaluation reports are due this year.