Voluntary Bodies Working with Victims and Offenders: Funding

HL Deb 10 April 2001 vol 624 cc86-7WA

Baroness Stern

asked Her Majesty's Government:

What is the planned increase in Home Office funding (a) next year and (b) over the next three years to voluntary organisations working with victims and to voluntary organisations working with offenders respectively, expressed both in absolute and percentage terms. [HL1365]

Lord Bassam of Brighton

The planned increase in grant to voluntary organisations working with victims next year (2001–02) is £6,464,000 (35 per cent). There is no planned increase in subsequent years.

There is no planned increase in grant to voluntary organisations working with offenders next year, or in subsequent years.