Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how funding under the Channel programme is allocated to local authorities and police forces.

Each of the nine police regions receives funding through the CT Police Grant to support the Channel programme. The grant also includes funding for OSCT approved intervention providers to mentor individuals on a theological or ideological basis. Funding is allocated based on an assessment of the risk of exposure to radicalisation. We do not directly fund local authorities for the purposes of Channel. The CT Police Grant has been protected as part of a two year settlement in 14-15 and 15-16 at £564.3 million.