Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of people who have been reached by the (a) Take Five, (b) Cyber Aware, (c) Cyber Essentials, (d) Scam Smart, (e) Not With My Name, (f) Urban Fraud Myths, (g) Avoiding Scams, (h) Get Safe Online, (i) Cyber Choices, (j) The Pensions Regulator's Scorpion Campaign, (k) 10 Steps to Cyber Security, (l) Date Safe and (m) Fighting Fraud programmes during 2017-18.

The Police Special Grant is available to Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) whose force is facing unexpected or unplanned events or expenditure which might otherwise cause financial instability. The majority of costs reimbursed relate to operational policing expenses such as overtime and mutual aid.

As set out in the Written Ministerial Statement at the time of the police settlement (15 December 2016), in 2017/18, the Government is providing £50m from the police settlement for Police Special Grant. This is an increase which reflects both an assessment of potential need across police forces, and the specific costs likely to be incurred preparing for the policing operation at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in 2018. Special Grant will be distributed to those forces where the PCC makes an application for funding to the Home Office, which is subsequently considered and agreed by the Minister of State for Policing and the Fire Service.

The Home Office publishes the applications and decisions taken on Special Grant. This can be found at the link below. Data relating to 2016/17 will be published shortly.

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

Applications for Special Grant from 2007 to 2014 can be found at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/special-grants-paid-to-the-police-forces-in-england-and-wales-from-2007-to-2014