Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to paragraph 5.12 of Budget 2026, (i) how much of the £55 million prioritised for the Violence Against Women and Girls Strategy is new funding; (ii) how much has been reprioritised from existing budgets; and (iii) from which programmes any reprioritised funding has been taken.

At Budget 2026, the Chancellor prioritised £55 million over 2026-27 and 2027-28 to accelerate delivery of the Freedom from Violence and Abuse: a cross-government strategy (the Violence Against Women and Girls Strategy).

Some of this funding has already been publicly allocated but not all of it – and the Budget allocates the funding to pay for it. No funding has been reprioritised from existing departmental programmes or budgets to pay for this announcement.