Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much additional funding has been allocated to South Wales Police for tackling knife crime and serious violence in the last 12 months.

This Government is committed to tackling knife crime and serious violence and making our streets safer.

South Wales Police will benefit from being able to recruit 136 officers by the end of March 2021. This is in addition to the £290.3m in funding South Wales Police are receiving in 2019/20 an increase of £19.3m on 2018/19.

In the last 12 months South Wales Police has been provided with £2,080,000 from the Serious Violence Fund; £1,200,00 for surge operational funding and £880,000 to develop their Violence Prevention Unit. £1,211,542 has also been awarded to support projects across all of Wales from the Early Intervention Youth Fund.

Additionally, funding has been awarded from the Anti-knife Community Fund and the Youth Endowment Fund to projects covering South Wales. For more information see:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/844955/Anti_knife_crime_successful_bids_2019-20.csv/preview

https://youthendowmentfund.org.uk/grantees-and-programmes/