HC Deb 31 March 1995 vol 257 cc851-4W
Mrs. Roche

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department who was on the judging panel which recommended to Ministers which bids should be successful under the closed circuit television challenge scheme; and how many of their recommendations Ministers accepted. [17441]

Mr. Maclean

The recommendations to Ministers were based on the assessments of a five-person panel comprising Home Office officials—including one with technical expertise—a business consultant and an academic consultant, both on secondment to the Home Office. Of the 480 bids received, 289 were assessed by the panel as being of good or very good quality. From that total, Ministers selected the 106 winners.

Mrs. Roche

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many(a) unsuccessful and (b) successful bids for closed circuit television challenge funding fell into each of the four categories listed in the bidding guidance. [17443]

Mr. Maclean

A significant number of bids, both successful and unsuccessful, fell into more than one category. The total number of bids by main category as described in the bidding guidance was as follows:

Number
Category A (Town Centre Schemes) 295
Category B (Neighbourhood Schemes) 40
Category C (Travel and Business Areas) 46
Category D (Community Centres) 99
Total 480

The number of successful bids by main category was as follows:

Number
Category A 90
Category B 1
Category C 11
Category D 4

Mrs. Roche

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many London bids were received for the closed circuit television challenge competition; and what amount those bids were for. [17445]

Mr. Maclean

Some 60 bids were received from the London region, seeking a total of £3,414,000.

Mrs. Roche

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many of the(a) successful and (b) unsuccessful bids for the closed circuit television challenge scheme attracted private funding; and what was the average proportion of the total cost of each scheme to be financed by private funding. [17438]

Mr. Maclean

Some 103 of the 106 successful bids had pledges of private sector funding. The remaining three successful bids were for neighbourhood or community schemes where private sector funding was not a requirement. It is estimated that the total value of private sector funding pledged for all bids received was £10 million.

Mrs. Roche

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will state for each of the successful bids in the closed circuit television challenge scheme(a) how much they will receive and (b) how much they bid. [17442]

Mr. Maclean

The information is as follows:

CCTV competition: winners by government office region (and Wales)

Eastern Region

  • In this region each of the winners, as listed below, received the amount bid for.
  • Chelmsford Town Centre: £100,000.
  • Ely Town Centre: £8,300.
  • Peterborough Town Centre: £100,000.
  • Stevenage Town Centre: £100,000.
  • Hitchin Town Centre and Letchworth Business Park: £100,000.
  • Harlow Town Centre: £50,000.
  • Thetford Town Centre: £100,000.
  • Hadleigh and Sudbury Town Centres: £100,000.

East Midlands

  • In this region each of the winners, as listed below, received the amount bid for, except Mansfield which bid for £100,000.
  • Gainsborough—Industrial Estates: £90,000.
  • Scawsby Community Centre, Workshop: £4,250.
  • Boston Town Centre: £20,000.
  • Kirton Town Centre: £7,500.
  • Kettering Town Centre: £50,000.
  • Ilkeston Town Centre: £45,000.
  • Norris Hill, Moira: £8,500.
  • Donington Town Centre: £8,250.
  • Loughborough Town Centre: £48,100.
  • Mansfield Town Centre: £50,000.
  • Market Harborough Town Centre: £40,000

South West

  • In this region all but two of the winners, as listed below, received the amount bid for. The Crown Glass Centre bid for £58,000 and Boscombe bid for £32,500.
  • Crown Glass Centre, Nailsea: £40,000.
  • Tiverton Town Centre: £12,000.
  • Boscombe Town Centre: £20,000.
  • Berkeley Square Car Park, Bristol: £19,000.
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  • Bodmin Town Centre: £12,000.
  • Cirencester Town Centre: £70,000.
  • Falmouth Town Centre: £25,000.
  • Newquay Town Centre: £50,000.
  • Truro Town Centre: £40,000.
  • Salisbury Town Centre: £100,000.
  • Torquay Town Centre: £50,000.
  • Wiltshire Mobile CCTV System: £10,000.
  • Gloucester City Centre: £10,000.
  • Tiverton Business Park: £7,400.

West Midlands

  • In this region all but two of the winners, as listed below, received the amount bid for. Worcester bid for £24,500.
  • Tamworth bid for £75,000.
  • Worcester City Centre: £20,000.
  • Shrewsbury Town Centre: £100,000.
  • Tamworth Town Centre: £60,000.
  • Stratford upon Avon Town Centre: £50,000.
  • Rugby Town Centre: £70,000.
  • Hereford City Centre: £60,000.
  • Solihull Town Centre: £60,000.
  • Lichfield Town Centre: £93,300
  • Ledbury High Street: £10,000.

South East

  • In this region all but five of the winners, as listed below, received the amount bid for. Maidstone, Folkstone, High Wycombe and Wokingham each bid for £100,000. Addlestone bid for up to £100,000.
  • Fawcett Road Shipping Area, Portsmouth: £28,500
  • Maidstone Town Centre: £50,000.
  • Ashford Town Centre: £89,000.
  • Havant Town Centre: £50,000.
  • Dover and Deal Town Centres: £17,500.
  • Folkestone Town Centre: £70,000.
  • High Wycombe Town Centre: £50,000.
  • Newhaven Town Centre: £41,000.
  • Egham Town Centre: £65,000.
  • Eastbourne Town Centre: £50,000.
  • Sandwich Town Centre: £7,500.
  • Rochester Business Estate: £35,000.
  • Dartford Town Centre: £50,000.
  • Tonbridge and West Malling Town Centres: £36,000
  • Addlestone Town Centre: £50,000
  • Banbury: £60,000
  • Wokingham Town Centre: £50,000
  • Basingstoke Town Centre: £25,000
  • Chesham: £23,000

Merseyside

  • Kirkby Railway Station:
  • Received: £28,750. Bid: £28,750.

London

  • In this region each of the winners, as listed below, received the amount bid for.
  • Harrow Town Centre: £50,000
  • Hillingdon Mobile CCTV System: £14,000
  • Sunbury Cross Shopping Centre: £45,000
  • Archway Mall, Islington: 12,400
  • Hounslow Town Centre: £50,000
  • Erith Town Centre: £50,000
  • Webbs Industrial Estate, Higham Lodge Business Centre and Blackhorse Mews, North Walthamstow: £46,000
  • Richmond Town Centre: £50,000

Yorkshire and Humberside

  • In this region all but one of the winners, as listed below, received the amount bid for. York bid for £100,000.
  • Harrogate Town Centre: £50,000
  • Outwood Grange School, Wakefield: £22,000
  • Balby Street School, Doncaster: £5,000
  • Lower Don Valley, Sheffield: £53,000
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  • Driffield Town Centre: £6,000
  • Keighley Town Centre: £34,700
  • Scarborough Town Centre: £100,000
  • Sutton Fields Industrial Estate, Hull: £50,000
  • York City Centre: £50,000
  • Boroughbridge Town Centre: £7,000
  • Brigg Town Centre: £49,900

North West

  • In this region each of the winners, as listed below, received the amount bid for.
  • Clitheroe Town Centre: £28,500
  • Neston Town Centre: £80,000
  • Carlisle City Centre: £60,000
  • Blackpool Town Centre: £50,000
  • Chester City Centre: £25,000
  • Hyde Town Centre: £21,000
  • Penrith Town Centre: £71,000
  • Rochdale Town Centre: £50,000
  • Wigan Town Centre: £80,000
  • Tameside Business Development Centre: £2,000
  • Bury Town Centre: £80,000
  • Lancaster City Centre: £58,500
  • Morecambe Seafront: £59,700

North East

  • In this region all but one of the winners, as listed below, received the amount bid for. Team Valley, Gateshead bid for £100,000.
  • Whitley Bay Town Centre: £100,000
  • Team Valley Estate, Gateshead: £50,000
  • Gateshead Town Centre: £65,000
  • Chester-le-Street Town Centre: £80,000
  • Bishop Auckland Town Centre: £75,000
  • Skippers Lane Industrial Estate, Cleveland: £80,000
  • Mill Lane Primary School, Cleveland: £6,000

Wales

  • In Wales each of the winners, as listed below, received the amount bid for.
  • Colwyn Bay Town Centre: £100,000
  • Cwmbran Town Centre: £100,000
  • West Glamorgan Mobile CCTV System £4,400
  • Rhondda Fawr Road, Ystrad £1,750
  • Haverfordwest Town Centre £16,000

Mrs. Roche

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what plans he has to extend closed circuit television funding. [17444]

Mr. Maclean

The recent CCTV challenge competition has injected £5 million into local CCTV schemes, generating up to £13.8 million in other funding. The possibility of further competitions in the future has not been ruled out, but it is too early to give a firm commitment.

Mrs. Roche

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many of the(a) successful and (b) unsuccessful bids for closed circuit television challenge money were applications to extend or upgrade existing schemes; and what proportion of the funding this will represent. [17446]

Mr. Maclean

There were a total of 65 bids to extend or upgrade existing systems, of which 15 were successful. Funding for those 15 bids amounted to £487,000, representing 9.7 per cent. of the total made available.