§ Mr. MichaelTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the sums of money the Government are making available directly to each of the original 16 safer city projects during the transitional period, together with the date on which transitional finance will commence in each case and the length of time for which it will continue to be available in each case.
§ Mr. JackThe original 16 safer cities projects will cease to receive Home Office funding after March 1994.
Each of these projects has £100,000 available in grant funding in 1993–94 to support local crime prevention schemes. In addition, in the current financial year they have access to further funds from a central pool of £500,000 which has been set aside to assist the development locally of continuing structures from the maintenance of multi-agency crime prevention work.
§ Mr. MichaelTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what criteria are being used to decide how the transitional money being made available to the original 16 safer cities projects should be allocated to the respective projects.
§ Mr. JackThe original 16 safer cities projects due to close in March 1994 have access to a central pool of £500,000 to assist the development locally of continuing structures for the maintenance of multi-agency crime prevention work. That is the only criterion for the use of this money. The projects were invited to submit their plans and expenditure proposals to the Home Office on the assumption that, subject to the viability of the plans, they will each receive about £31,000 from the pool.