How many people have requested funding from the Discretionary Assistance Fund stating reasons of domestic abuse as contributing factors between January 2023 and January 2024, broken down by individual assistance payments and emergency assistance payments separately?
Answered by Minister for Social Justice and Chief Whip | Answered on 11/03/2024
The Discretionary Assistance Fund records awards made from the fund to assist individuals to ‘avoid a potentially violent situation’.
In the year between January 2023 and January 2024, 1388 Individual Assistance Payments (IAP) awards were made within this category, totalling £1,820,296.28.
During the same time period, 2019 Emergency Assistance Payments (EAP) were made within this category, totalling £192,155.19.