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Victims of Crime: Financial Support

Volume 455: debated on Wednesday 24 January 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much his Department spent on support for the victims of crime in each year since 1997. (109042)

The Home Office funds a wide range of projects and organisations to support victims of crime, such as sexual assault referral centres and independent sexual violence advisors for victims of sexual violence, the POPPY scheme for victims of trafficking, independent domestic violence advisors and 64 specialist court areas for domestic violence victims.

The main national funding made available is as follows:

£ million

Funding to Victim Support

Compensation paid by CICA

Funding to the Victims' fund

1997-98

12.7

201.5

1998-99

12.7

194.4

1999-2000

17.5

205.2

2000-01

18.6

207.9

2001-02

25.1

233.5

2002-03

29.3

232.1

2003-04

30

227.5

2004-05

30

186.2

1

2005-06

30

184

3

2006-07

30

Not yet available

1.25