Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much funding was allocated to the Research, Information and Communications Unit in her Department in each of the last three years; and what estimate she has made of the amount of funding that will be allocated to that unit in the next two years.

The funding allocation for the Research, Information and Communications Unit (RICU) for the past 3 years is as follows, this includes both the administration and programme funding and covers funding for both CT and SOC delivery:

• 2014/2015 - £12,487,259
• 2015/2016 - £17,127,270
• 2016/2017 - £21,087,203