To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much funding her Department has provided to protect places of worship for each religion in each of the last five years.

The Home Office provides protective security for Places of Worship as part of three separate strands. These are the Protective Security for Mosques Scheme and protection for Muslim faith schools (since 2023/24), the Jewish Community Protective Security Grant (administered by the Community Security Trust) and the Places of Worship Protective Security Scheme (for all other, non-Muslim and non-Jewish, faiths). Prior to 2023/24, the Muslim community were eligible for support under the Places of Worship Protective Security Scheme.

No funding is provided directly from the Home Office to any Place of Worship, instead they receive protective security measures funded by the Home Office via contracts or grants.

For the last five years, up to the following amounts have been made available, however in 2023/24 the full budget for the Protective Security for Mosques scheme was not utilised. We do, however, expect the full amount to be used in 2024/25.