§ Ms. CoffeyTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what studies his Department has carried out into the effectiveness at crime prevention of the new white street lights relative to conventional sodium yellow lights; and if he will publish the results.
§ Mr. JackI have been asked to reply.
The most recent Home Office research on the relationship between street lighting and crime and the fear of crime was published in August 1991 (Crime Prevention Unit Paper, 28, "The Influence of the Street Lighting on Crime and Fear of Crime" and CPU Paper, 29, "The Effect of Better Street Lighting on Crime and Fear: a Review"). Copies of both are in the Library of the House. These studies did not specifically examine the differential effects on crime of white and yellow street lights.