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<p>Since 2014 MHCLG has invested £55.5 million in services in England to support victims
of domestic abuse, including refuges.</p><p>Our £10 million fund to local authorities
(2014-2016), where we released £3 million in 2014 and £7 million in 2015, helped 148
local authorities strengthen refuge provision for victims and offer support to women
from outside their own area.</p><p>The £3.5 million fund (2015-2016), also released
in 2015, supported 46 local authorities and their partners to deliver 710 new bed
spaces for 3,798 victims of domestic abuse.</p><p>Through our £20 million fund (2016-2018)
we released £3.2 million in 2016 and £17.2 million in 2017. This supported 80 projects
across the country, helping to create more than 2,000 bed spaces and giving support
to over 19,000 victims and their families.</p><p>My Department’s current £22 million
fund (2018-2020) is supporting 63 projects across England to provide support for over
25,000 victims, and their families, and over 2,200 additional bed spaces in accommodation-based
services, including refuge. To facilitate this, we released £9.8 million in 2018 and
on 30 April 2019 we released the final instalment of £12.2 million to cover the 2019
to 2020 financial year. Funding beyond March 2020 is for decision at the next Spending
Review.</p>
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