§ Mr. Alex CarlileTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will place in the Library all information held by his Department concerning the effectiveness of installed closed circuit television on preventing crime; and if he will make a statement. [9890]
§ Mr. Maclean[holding answer 22 January 1996]: My Department has published a number of research papers looking at various aspects of closed circuit television effectiveness as part of its series of crime prevention unit papers and the successor series of crime detection and prevention papers. The most recent of these—published 120W on 29 December 1995—is paper No. 68—"CCTV in Town Centres: Three Case Studies". Copies of all these papers are held in the Library.
§ Mr. CarlileTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what has been the total central Government expenditure to date on crime prevention closed circuit television schemes; and if he will make a statement. [9891]
§ Mr. Maclean[holding answer 22 January 1996]: Approximately £800,000 has been allocated to 56 crime prevention projects featuring closed circuit television since 1989 under the safer cities programme. In addition, £5 million was awarded to 106 CCTV schemes in last year's CCTV challenge competition. The current CCTV challenge competition will provide a further £15 million for CCTV in 1996–97. Information about CCTV projects funded by other Government programmes is not collected centrally.