Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what resources her Department has allocated to the Wales Extremism and Counter Terrorism Unit in 2014-15; and what changes to those resources are expected in (a) 2015-16, (b) 2016-17 and (c) 2017-18.

The Welsh Extremism and Counter Terrorism Unit does receive funding from the Counter Terrorism Policing Grant. The Home Office does not publically provide a breakdown of the Counter Terrorism Policing Grant by region or capability for security reasons.

In the Spending Round 2013, specific funding for counter-terrorism was protected to 2015-16. A Written Ministerial Statement (WMS) in December 2013 confirmed that the police CT resource budget would be at least £564 million for 2014-15. A WMS in December 2014 confirmed at least the same amount would be available for 2015-16. In addition, HM Treasury has increased funding in 2015-16 for counter terrorism policing by a further £14.9 million to strengthen our capabilities in response to the increased threat from terrorism.

Whilst budgets have been set for 2015-16, budgets for future years will be determined after the upcoming Spending Review.