§ Mr. Denis MurphyTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list, by constituency, the closed circuit TV schemes that have been(a) funded and (b) part-funded by the Government in each of the last three years, and the cost of each. [153141]
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§ Mr. Charles ClarkeDetails of closed circuit television (CCTV) schemes funded wholly or in part by the Home Office during each of the last three years are listed by parliamentary constituency. A copy has been placed in the Library.
The schemes listed include those approved to date under the Crime Reduction Programme CCTV Initiative and those funded in 1998 under Round 4 of the earlier CCTV Challenge Competition.
During the last three years, 283 CCTV schemes totalling more than £65 million have been awarded Home Office funding, of which 106 schemes were wholly funded by the Home Office, and 277 schemes were part-funded with nearly £19 million committed from other sources.
§ Mr. Denis MurphyTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what plans he has to increase the funding available for closed circuit TV schemes in(a) Wansbeck and (b) the UK. [153148]
§ Mr. Charles ClarkeUnder the second round of the Crime Reduction Programme Closed Circuit Television Initiative (CCTV), more than 800 initial funding applications totalling over £200 million were submitted by crime and disorder reduction partnerships, including two applications from partnerships within the Wansbeck constituency.
All the applications are currently under assessment and we expect to advise partnerships of the outcome very shortly.
Although this is the final round of funding under the CCTV Initiative, there will be further opportunities for CCTV funding under future Government anti-crime programmes.