Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much funding her Department provided to the Survivors Trust in each year since 2009-10; and if she will publish all files related to that funding allocation held by her Department.

We are committed to ensuring that victims get the support they need to cope with and, where possible, recover from crime. We have protected the overall level of funding for victims for five years and have allocated funding of nearly £100m in 2016/17 to fund crucial support services. For 2017/18 we have protected funding of over £6.4 million to 86 female rape support centres across England and Wales.

The Survivors Trust is one of two umbrella organisations representing the rape and sexual violence sector, the other being Rape Crisis England & Wales. Organisations receiving funding from my department are members of one or both organisations.

Funding provided directly to The Survivors Trust 2011-16 principally relates to work to support the setting up of new female rape support centres. In 2016-17 no funding was provided to The Survivors Trust as the set up period for the new centres has been completed. All funding goes directly to rape support centres.

The table below shows the funding provided by my department to The Survivors Trust from 2009-10 to date:

I will ask my officials to review information held in relation to this allocation with the view to publication where it is appropriate to do so, and I will write to you further on this point in due course.