At least £900,000 of public money has been spent promoting and implementing Ask for Angela across England and Wales, the has found.
The biggest investment is in London, with £324,000 from the Mayor’s Women’s Night Safety Charter Fund and £32,000 from the Metropolitan Police.
Outside the capital, Knowsley Council in Merseyside invested £90,000, Colchester City Council received £77,800 from the Home Office’s Safer Streets Fund, and the West Yorkshire Combined Authority allocated £71,000. Sussex Police was awarded £296,363 from the same Home Office fund, with a portion dedicated to Ask for Angela.
The scheme is increasingly becoming embedded in official licensing policies across England and Wales.
Westminster City Council, which has the most licensed venues of any local council in the country, includes the operation of Ask for Angela as a consideration in granting licences to sell alcohol, as do Camden Council and Manchester City Council.
