Rape Crisis Centres: Expenditure
(asked on 22nd July 2019) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the real-terms changes in the level of funding for rape crisis centres were between 2010 and 2018.
Rape support centres receive funding from multiple sources, including government funding and charitable trusts.
The Ministry of Justice allocated the following funding to support rape support services across England and Wales:
2010-11 | *Not possible to disaggregate |
2011-12 | £3.4m |
2012-13 | £3.9m |
2013-14 | £3.9m |
2014-15 | £4.4m |
2015-16 | £4.7m |
2016/17 | £7.2m |
2017/18 | £7.2m |
2018/19 | £7.2m |
* The Ministry of Justice provided total funding of £2.1m in 2010-11 for sexual violence and domestic violence support services.
In March this year we increased the central funding available to these services by 10% - up to £8m per year and made a commitment of £24m over three years.
The Ministry of Justice also allocates around £68 million a year to Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) to locally commission or provide support services for victims of crime, including victims of sexual violence. £4.7m of this is ringfenced for spend on victims of child sexual abuse. In 2017/18, PCCs reported spending £15.9m on supporting victims of sexual violence. £8.4m of this was from the MoJ grant and £7.5m from other funding sources.