The British government has committed more than £18.25 million (€29.3m) since the Belfast Agreement in 1998 to support victims of the Troubles, it was disclosed tonight.
Junior Northern Ireland minister Desmond Browne said in a Commons written reply that the money had been used to fund a number of initiatives including £700,000 for a Family Trauma Centre in Belfast.
A bursary pilot scheme for people whose education was directly affected by the Troubles had received £300,000 and groups who support victims of the Troubles had been given £6.1 million.
The Northern Ireland Memorial Fund had received £4 million with another £1 million promised for 2003-4.
Over the next three years £1.5 million had also been set aside to develop the Northern Ireland Centre for Trauma and Transformation.
Under the European Union Special Support Programme for Peace and Reconciliation, victims groups had received £2.8 million which had mainly been used to provide counselling services and training and development officers.
The Government has also established a Police Fund from which £4.2 million was paid to widows of officers killed before November 1982 as a direct result of terrorism, said Mr Browne.
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