Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much his Department plans to allocate to the Ending Gang Violence and Exploitation fund in (a) 2018-19 and (b) 2019-20.

We will continue to support local voluntary sector and community schemes through new rounds of the Ending Gang Violence and Exploitation (EGVE) Fund. We plan to allocate up to £300,000 in 2018-19 and in 2019-20. The EGVE Fund will be launched in the summer and further details will be available in due course.

We are continuing to provide funding for Young People’s Advocates in London, Manchester and Birmingham to work directly with gang-affected women and girls. We are also providing funding to Redthread to support the expansion of their youth violence intervention scheme in hospital emergency departments.

We will also be providing £1million for the Community Fund in both 2018/19 and 2019/20 to help communities tackle knife crime and £11million over the next two years through a new Early Intervention Youth Fund.