HC Deb 02 December 2002 vol 395 c580W
34. Mr. Wyatt

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will provide central Government funding for Neighbourhood Watch schemes. [82336]

Mr. Denham

The Home Office does not provide funding to individual Watch schemes, but directs it towards national initiatives designed to support the sort of local activity which Neighbourhood Watch represents. It also pays for the production of a range of Neighbourhood Watch publications, including a training manual for scheme co-ordinators.

It would not be possible to fund every local scheme, invidious to choose between them. The essence of local partnership is local people getting together with the police and their local authority to solve local problems.

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