Home Department written question – answered at on 3 June 2013.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much funding her Department has given to the UK Human Trafficking Centre in each year since its inception; and what funding is proposed for the centre in each of the next three years.
The UK Human Trafficking Centre (UKHTC) began operations in 2006, based in South Yorkshire police. South Yorkshire police received specific funding to support its operation as a specialist national unit as set out in the following table:
Period | £ |
2006-07 | 591,000 |
2007-08 | 834,084 |
2008-09 | (1)1,712,000 |
2009-10 | 1,602,000 |
(1) The budget in 2008-09 included a contribution to allow for a one-off purchase of a necessary IT system. |
In April 2010 the UKHTC transferred into the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA). Since this date it has been funded from SOCA's general budget.
From October 2013 the UKHTC will form part of, and be funded through, the National Crime Agency general budget.
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