Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what proportion of the £3 million fund to increase provision of safe accommodation with specialist support for victims of domestic violence has been allocated.

My Department received 74 applications from across England for funding from the £3 million fund to increase the provision of safe accommodation with specialist support for victims of domestic abuse.

Given the high quality of the bids received we increased the fund to £3.5 million to support additional bids for safe accommodation and specialist support for victims of domestic violence.

We announced the successful bids on 11 December 2015 (see the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/35-million-awarded-to-make-sure-domestic-abuse-victims-get-help). In total we are supporting 46 bids which will deliver 710 new bedspaces and support for 3,798 victims.

Over the Spending Review period we have committed £40 million of funding to support the victims of domestic abuse.