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Mr Christopher Richards

Reference: T18973/8 25 September 2008

Dear Mr Richards,

Thank you for your e-mail of 20 August 2008 in which you ask the total funding provided to Action against Business Crime or any of its subsidiary agencies or companies by the Home Office.

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And, a breakdown of the funding for each different project /cost code (or as separate by the Home Office for accounting purposes) run by Action against Business Crime or any of its subsidiary agencies or companies. We are now in a position to offer a full reply to your request.

I am pleased to be able to disclose the information that you requested to you.

The Home Office provide grant funding over four years to March 2006 to enable the AABC to set up 100 new business crime partnerships by that date from an approved list of priority areas.

Release of funding installments was linked to the achievement of periodic performance targets and the aim was for AABC to become self-financing after April 2006.

The total of Home Office funding to March 2006 received by AABC was £1,139.000. This was broken down as:

We have not provided funding to any subsidiary body or agency of AABC.

If you are dissatisfied with this response you may request an independent internal review of our handling of your request by submitting your complaint within two months to the below address quoting reference 10126.

Information Rights Team
Information and Record Management Service
Home Office
4th Floor, Seacole Building
2 Marsham Street
London
SW1P 4DF

Email: xxxx.xxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx.xxx.xx

During the independent review the department's handling of your information request will be reassessed by staffs who were not involved in providing you with this response. Should you remain dissatisfied after this internal review, you will have a right of complaint to the Information Commissioner as established by section 50 of the Freedom of Information Act.

I hope that you find this information of interest, and would like to assure you that you have been supplied with all relevant information that the Home Office holds.

Yours sincerely

Kevin White