§ Ms WalleyTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list those cities currently in receipt of safer cities funding, together with the budget for each designated safer city.
§ Mr. JackThe following is a list of 20 local authority areas in which safer cities projects have been established, showing the grants budget allocated to each in 1993–94 to support local crime prevention activity:
Project Grants budget in 1993–94£ Birmingham 100,000 Bradford 100,000 Bristol 100,000 Coventry 100,000 Derby 250,000 Hammersmith and fulham 250,000 Hartlepool 100,000 Hull 100,000 Islington 100,000 Leicester 250,000 Lewisham 100,000 Middlesborough 250,000 Nottingham 100,000 Rochdale 100,000 Salford 100,000 Sunderland 100,000 Tower Hamlets 100,000 Wandsworth 100,000 Wirral 100,000 Wolverhampton 100,000 Home Office funding is due to end in March 1994 for the 16 projects with grants budgets of £100,000. These projects will also have access to a central budget of £500,000 to assist the development of continuing structures for the maintenance of multi-agency crime 683W prevention work. It is intended that the remaining four projects will continue to receive Home Office funding into 1995–96.
§ Ms WalleyTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will give details of his plans for crime prevention initiatives outside the scope of the safer cities initiative.
§ Mr. JackI refer the hon. Member to the reply I gave to a question from my hon. Friend the Member for High Peak (Mr. Hendry) on 4 March 1993,Official Report, cols 274–75.