Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether it is a requirement for companies and civil society organisations who receive Prevent strategy funding to submit receipts and invoices to (a) her Department or (b) local authorities to account how they have used that funding.

To reduce the threat from terrorism, the Home Office funds dedicated Prevent posts and locally commissioned projects in local authority areas where the risk of radicalisation is most acute. Organisations that are commissioned by local authorities to deliver Prevent projects funded by the Home Office are required to submit receipts and invoices to the local authority that commissioned them. On a quarterly basis, the local authority submits a request for grant payment to the Home Office with a breakdown of their expenditure.