Disability: Elections
(asked on 10th February 2021) - View Source
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to reinstate the EnAble Fund for Elected Office to encourage disabled people to participate as candidates in the May 2021 elections.
This question was answered on 22nd February 2021
It is the Government’s ambition to see more disabled people in public office.
The Government has been clear that the responsibility for supporting disabled candidates sits with political parties and that the EnAble Fund was an interim measure to give parties time to put their own support in place.
Ministers wrote to the main Parties twice in 2019 to ask them how they intend to support their candidates on a long-term basis.