Home Office: Telephone Services
(asked on 22nd May 2023) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much funding her Department provided to the (a) Refuge National Domestic Abuse Helpline, (b) National Perpetrator Helpline run by Respect, (c) Men’s Advice Line, (d) Galop national LGBT+ victims' helpline, (e) National Stalking Helpline operated by the Suzy Lamplugh Trust and (f) Revenge Porn Helpline operated by SWGfL in the (i) 2022-23 and (ii) 2023-24 financial years.
The Home Office has provided over £3.7m of funding to the following helplines to provide advice and support to victims of domestic abuse, perpetrators of domestic abuse as well as victims of stalking since financial year 2022/23.
The breakdown of allocation by financial year is as follows:
Financial Year 2022/2023
(a) National Domestic Abuse Helpline, run by Refuge - £1,000,000
(b) National Perpetrator Helpline, run by Respect - £200,000
(c) Men’s Advice Line, run by Respect - £200,000
(d) National LGBT+ Victims' Helpline, run by Galop - £150,000
(e) National Stalking Helpline operated by the Suzy Lamplugh Trust - £150,000
(f) Revenge Porn Helpline operated by South West Grid for London - £160,430
Financial Year 2023/2024
(a) National Domestic Abuse Helpline, run by Refuge - £1,000,000
(b) National Perpetrator Helpline, run by Respect - £200,000
(c) Men’s Advice Line, run by Respect - £200,000
(d) National LGBT+ Victims' Helpline, run by Galop - £150,000
(e) National Stalking Helpline operated by the Suzy Lamplugh Trust - £150,000
(f) Revenge Porn Helpline operated by South West Grid for London - £160,430
In March 2022, we published the cross-Government Tackling Domestic Abuse Plan. The Plan will seek to transform the whole of society’s response in order to prevent offending, support victims and pursue perpetrators, as well as to strengthen the systems processes in place needed to deliver these goals.
As part of the investment of over £140 million for supporting victims and survivors in the Tackling Domestic Abuse Plan, and over £81 million for tackling perpetrators, the Home Office committed to double funding for National Domestic Abuse Helpline, and further increase funding for all the national helplines it supports.