Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much funding his Department plans to allocate to Redthread to extend its Youth Violence Intervention Programme outside of London in each of the next two years.

In 2017/18 the Home Office provided nearly £170,000 to support Redthread’s youth violence intervention work and in particular its expansion to new sites outside of London, starting with Queens Medical Centre in Nottingham from march 2018 and Queen Elizabeth and Heartlands Hospital in Birmingham from July 2018. It is a key commitment in the Serious Violence Strategy to continue to support Redthread to expand and develop its service. We will make an announcement on the extent of the funding in due course.