HC Deb 16 January 2003 vol 397 c778W
Mr. Dodds

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what the criteria are for application for Back to School grants administered by the Northern Ireland Memorial Fund. [87338]

Mr. Browne

The Back to School Grant was launched by the Northern Ireland Memorial Fund on 1 July this year and finished on 30 September. It was run as a pilot scheme and the directors of the Memorial Fund have not yet decided if it should run again next year.

The Back to School Grant was open to parents who had children aged 18 or under in full-time education living at home with them and who, as a result of the Troubles, had:

  1. (a) lost either a parent, partner or child; or
  2. (b) themselves have been injured; or
  3. (c) become the primary carer for an immediate family member who has been injured;
and who were in receipt of one of the following benefits: Income Support, Job Seekers Allowance (income based), Working Families Tax Credit, Disabled Persons Tax Credit or Housing Benefit.