Less than £1.5million of £76million promised to help domestic abuse victims during the coronavirus pandemic has been sent to the frontline.
Ministers announced on May 2 that cash would be made available, with funding from the Home Office, the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government.
Labour said the money was “a welcome development, given the need for support to frontline services was urgent and vital”. But the Government has admitted only a fraction has been sent to where it is needed.
Labour has now written to Home Secretary Priti Patel demanding to know why only 1.6% of the amount earmarked five weeks ago to support victims in the outbreak has been handed out.