Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 16 January 2025 to Question 23643 on Hampshire Police and Crime Commissioner, for what reasons funding amounts for individual Police and Crime Commissioner areas are not routinely published; and if she will make it her policy to publish these amounts in the future.

Funding amounts for the commissioning of victims’ services by individual Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) have not previously been systematically published on gov.uk.

Individual PCCs publish annual reports which includes funding for victim services. Furthermore, a breakdown of grant funding is publicly available on the Government Grants Information System, which is released annually in March covering the previous financial period of grant spending.

PCCs commission victim services with funding outside of Ministry of Justice allocations, and individual allocations do not take into account any co-commissioning arrangements. As such, individual allocations will not provide the whole picture for victims’ funding in an area.