§ Mr. SkinnerTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether parish councils are offered grants from his Department for neighbourhood watch schemes.
§ Mr. Charles WardleThe Home Office does not provide direct funding to support individual neighbourhood watch schemes. The neighbourhood watch movement is essentially local in character with co-ordination provided by police forces. The Home Office provides support through the production of leaflets and posters together with grant in aid to Crime Concern which supports neighbourhood watch activities. For example, the Home Office provided funding towards the cost of a neighbourhood watch' co-ordinators handbook which was published by Crime Concern last October.