Home Office written question – answered at on 3 May 2018.
Louise Haigh
Shadow Minister (Home Office) (Policing)
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much money his Department plans to allocate to (a) future knife crime media campaigns, (b) new local and regional reviews, (c) the test purchase prosecution fund, (d) support for interventions with vulnerable groups, (e) work on police testing kits in respect of corrosive substances, (f) a thematic inspection of police forces in respect of county lines and (g) preventative measures in respect of gang related material on social media (i) 2018-19 and (ii) 2019-20.
Victoria Atkins
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department, Minister for Women
The Serious Violence Strategy is supported by a total of £40 million of Home Office funding over two years to support specific initiatives set out in the strategy. We have already outlined how much funding will support the Early Intervention Youth Fund, the National County Lines Co-ordination Centre, the anti-knife crime Community Fund, the Young Peoples Advocates and the Ending Gang Violence and Exploitation Fund. Further details about the specific funding for the other initiatives will be announced in due course.
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