Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 16 October 2018 to Question 176432 on Offences against Children, whether any funding requests from police forces for investigations into child sexual exploitation have been rejected by the Government in the last three years.

No applications for Special Grant funding in respect of investigations into Child Sexual Exploitation have been declined in the last three years.

Applications declined are published alongside successful applications on the Gov.uk website

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/police-funding-special-grant-applications