Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 11 October 2022 to Question 55112 on Domestic Abuse: Cost of Living, what proportion of the £230 million will be spent in (a) Newcastle and (b) the North East.

The cross-Government Tackling Domestic Abuse Plan invested over £230 million of cross-government funding into tackling this terrible issue.

This includes a £75 million investment for tackling perpetrators, including multi-year funding for perpetrator interventions. Perpetrator programmes aim to help change or disrupt offenders’ behaviour and they can help to stop offenders from committing a crime or from reoffending. For example, in the current financial year, we awarded grants totalling £791,822.48 to Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) in the North East for perpetrator interventions, including the Drive Project. This includes funding given to Northumbria, Durham and North Yorkshire.

In the Tackling Domestic Abuse Plan, the Home Office announced it would increase funding so that the Children Affected by Domestic Abuse Fund receives more than £4 million to organisations providing specialist support within the community to children who are experiencing domestic abuse.