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<p>The value of Victim Surcharge collected in England and Wales in 2016 is £29,913,310.</p><p>It
is not possible to identify how much of that was from motoring offences in any specific
year without incurring disproportionate costs as the data could only be collated by
a manual search of all accounts.</p><p>The Government is committed to help victims
cope with, and, as far as possible, recover from crime. This year, the Ministry of
Justice is allocating c.£97m (including all revenue from the Victim Surcharge) to
fund support services for victims of crime. The majority of the Department’s Victims’
Services budget goes to Police and Crime Commissioners (c.£68m) to deliver support
services for victims of crime in their local areas. Victims of road crime are entitled
to support from these services based on need in the same way as victims of other crime,
and the Ministry of Justice does not ringfence its funding to PCCs for support in
this area. PCCs can fund specific support services for road crime victims, and the
Ministry of Justice funds BRAKE nationally for support to families bereaved by road
crime (c.£110k in 2017/18).</p>
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