HC Deb 04 March 2004 vol 418 cc1118-20W
John Cryer

To ask the Deputy Prime Minister what discussions officials at his Department have had with(a) councillors and (b) officers at the London Borough of Havering regarding the continuation of neighbourhood warden schemes; and if he will make a statement on their outcome. [157325]

Yvette Cooper

Officials from the Government Office for London met with the neighbourhood warden scheme manager and a councillor from Havering on 11 February.

The warden scheme has yet to secure mainstream funding from the London Borough of Havering and they are still considering their options.

John Cryer

To ask the Deputy Prime Minister what guidance he has issued to local authorities to assist them in mainstreaming funding for neighbourhood wardens schemes; and what the estimated cost to local authorities is of mainstreaming funding of neighbourhood warden schemes. [157326]

Yvette Cooper

The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister has provided no direct advice to local authorities but it has provided a raft of information and advice to warden schemes themselves on how they might raise funding from mainstream funding.

The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister's funding to neighbourhood warden schemes for 2003–04 was £4.7 million. Local authorities would need to find this level of funding if they wished to fund all warden schemes at the same level.

John Cryer

To ask the Deputy Prime Minister which(a) local authorities and (b) housing associations in England (i) are and (ii) are not mainstreaming funding for neighbourhood warden schemes. [157329]

Yvette Cooper

The following table lists the areas where housing associations and local authorities are committed to sustaining their first round warden schemes after March 2004, when the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister funding for their pilot schemes ceases.

Area Accountable body
1. Dacorum LA
2. Huntingdon HA
3. Norwich LA
4. Lincolnshire LA
5. Leicestershire HA
6. Nottingham LA
7. Derby HA
8. Liverpool (1 of 2 schemes) LA
9. West Lancashire LA
10. Longsight LA
11. Sale West LA
12. Wirral LA
13. Burnley LA
14. Manchester Longridge HA
15. Macclesfield HA
16. Knowsley LA
17. Breightmet and Bolton HA
18. Bury Voluntary Sector
19. Oldham LA
20. North Manchester LA
21. Bolton HA
22. Salford LA
23. Lewisham LA
24. Merton LA
25. Southwark LA
26. Sutton LA
27. Birmingham Atwood Green LA
28. Wolverhampton LA
29. Walsall LA
30. Stoke HA
31. Wyre Forest HA
32. Coventry LA
33. Leeds LA
34. Sheffield LA
35. Kirklees LA
36. Sheffield Voluntary Sector
Area Accountable body
37. Bamesley LA
38. Doncaster LA
39. Wakefield LA
40. Rotherham LA
41. Exeter AL
42. Portsmouth LA
43. Horsham AL
44. Milton Keynes LA
45. Canterbury LA
46. Slough LA
47. Guildford LA
48. Hastings LA
49. Rushmore HA
50. Stockton LA
51. Darlington LA
52 South Tyneside LA
53. Middlesbrough HA
54. Sedgefield LA
55. Sunderland Plains Farm HA
56. North Tyneside LA
57. Merthyr Tydfil LA
58. Cardiff LA
59. Gwynedd LA
60. Caerphilly LA
61. Swansea LA

Local Authorities (LAs) in Barnet, Hillingdon, Avon and Somerset and Wigan as well as a Housing Association (HA) in Islington have decided not to sustain their wardens schemes. In two cases the wardens will be replaced by Police Community Support Officers.

13 LAs, three HAs and two voluntary schemes have not yet made a final decision about the future of the warden scheme.

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