Community Relations: Extremism

Keith Vaz
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) on what her Department’s share of the pledged £12.5 million to help prevent extremism in communities will be spent; and over what period of time her Department’s share of the funding will be spent;

(2) how the pledged £12.5 million to help prevent extremism in communities will be divided between Departments involved.

Mr. McNulty
The £12.5 million from the Home Office to help prevent extremism in communities will be spent on funding projects specifically to support institutions or individuals vulnerable to radicalisation. New schemes will include:

£1 million for the Home Office to extend police-led multi agency projects to identify and support vulnerable individuals at risk of being targeted by violent extremists.

£3.5 million to Youth Offending Teams and Youth Secure Establishments on new work to prevent violent extremism, focused on supporting young individuals who have had contact with the criminal justice system.

£7.25 million to the National Offender Management Service and partner agencies to do further work in prisons and the community to tackle vulnerability to radicalisation among offenders

£750,000 for the Home Office to fund further grassroots projects aimed at tackling radicalisation.

All of the £12.5 million pledged will be spent in the 2008-09 financial year.