Counter-terrorism
(asked on 13th October 2014) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 11 September 2014 to Question 207956, how much of the funds given to local authorities under the Prevent programme was spent in each of the last five years; and what funds under that programme were spent by (a) police forces, (b) other frontline agencies and (c) central government in each of those years.
Since 2011, Prevent spend figures for frontline agencies, local delivery, and central agencies have been as follows:
Year | 2011/12 |
2012/13 |
2013/14 |
Frontline Agencies | £7.5 million |
£7.9 million |
£6.8 million |
Local Delivery | £1.2 million |
£3.3 million |
£4.4 million |
Central Government | £3.2 million |
£1.5 million |
£4.1 million |
Funding for Prevent policing is part of a wider grant provided by the Home Office to the police for counter-terrorism activity. It is therefore not
possible to give a detailed breakdown of spend on police activity for Prevent. However funding for Prevent policing represents approximately half of the total Prevent funding.
Spend on the 2011 Prevent strategy has increased as the programme, particularly local delivery, has become more firmly embedded at local level, and good practice better established.