Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 2:12 pm on 28 November 2017.
Women’s Aid in Bangor, in my constituency, are extremely concerned about the talk of integrating the violence against women, domestic violence and sexual violence grant into a single composite grant. They are concerned that the same thing that’s happened in England could happen here: 17 per cent of specialist shelters were lost and a third of all referrals to shelters had to be rejected because of a shortage of space. This happened after the Government in England stopped ring-fencing Supporting People as a separate part of funding. Can you guarantee that a sufficient level of funding will be available to provide shelters across Wales if this budgetary change is made in 2018-19?