Public Expenditure: Northern Ireland

(asked on 4th June 2020) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, for what reasons the Barnet Consequentials for Northern Ireland were not applied to emergency funding that was allocated to service providers of victims and survivors of domestic abuse in England and Wales.


Answered by
Steve Barclay Portrait
Steve Barclay
Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
This question was answered on 9th June 2020

As part of the response to COVID-19, the UK government has announced £39 million of funding to support victims of domestic abuse. The Barnett formula has been applied to this funding and, as a result of this, the Northern Ireland Executive will receive £1.0 million of additional funding.

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