Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 9 September 2020 to Question 83722 on Remand in Custody: Veterans, what the £5.7m funding for support for veterans within the criminal justice system has been spent on; and what time period that funding is planned for.
In 2015, 14 grants worth £4.6 million were awarded to support projects working with former service personnel with the aim of reducing re-offending. In 2018, seven continuation grants worth £1,101,308 were subsequently awarded to some existing grant holders.
The programme has been externally evaluated by RAND Europe, with publication due at the end of October 2020.
Information on these grants is available at - https://covenantfund.org.uk/ex-forces-in-the-criminal-justice-system-projects-weve-funded/