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Written question asked by Lord Jackson of Peterborough (Conservative) on Monday, 23 March 2009, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 26 March 2009. It was answered by Lord Coaker (Labour) on Thursday, 2 April 2009 on behalf of the Home Office.

Community Relations: Finance

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the written answer by Baroness Andrews of 9 March 2009, Official Report, House of Lords, WA 212-3, on the Preventing Violent Extremism Pathfinder Fund, if her Department will adopt a policy requiring public bodies that have received funding from it to prevent violent extremism to report annually (a) to which community groups and individuals they have allocated funding and (b) on the work they have undertaken and how they plan to monitor its effectiveness.
Answer

[holding answer 26 March 2009]: The Home Office provides grant funding to a number of public bodies to assist in their activities to prevent violent extremism. This includes the Youth Justice Board, the National Offender Management Service and the police. These organisations are required to regularly report to the Department on expenditure, and account for their activities such that we can evaluate their effectiveness and value for money. This includes where they in turn, provide funding to community organisations.In respect of funding provided via local authorities, this is allocated through the area based grant—a non-ring fenced grant fund which allows local authorities to decide the most effective and efficient routes to invest their resources for the delivery of local priorities.Authorities are measured on the outcomes they achieve using this funding through the National Indicator Set.All authorities, including those who have received area-based grant funding in support of their work to prevent violent extremism, must therefore report to Government annually against National Indicator 35, an indicator in the National Indicator Set which measures progress in building resilience to violent extremism. Work to prevent violent extremism is included in the Comprehensive Area Assessment process, led by the Audit Commission, which assesses how well local services are working together to improve the quality of life for local people.We continue to work closely with local authorities to deliver this agenda and the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government wrote to the Speaker of the House of Commons on 17 March, copied to Paul Goodman MP, agreeing to provide information about the groups that local authorities are working with.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
490 c1315-6W;490 c1311-2W; 266852
Session
2008-09
Related items
Subjects
Community relations Finance
Link
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