Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, for what reason her Department ceased funding for the charity Protecting Children and Uniting Families Across Borders; and what provision she has made for ensuring that charity's work is sustained.

I wish to offer Protecting Children and Uniting Families Across Borders (CFAB) a meeting with Department for Education officials. I have asked officials to contact the charity to arrange the meeting.

The Department for Education has provided past voluntary and community sector grants to CFAB, most recently in 2014-15. We allocated these grants through a competitive bidding process, and the grants were clearly time-limited. CFAB has applied for funding for later years, but has not been successful. These grants are not intended to provide core funding for charities.