§ Tim LoughtonTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make funding available from the distraction burglary budget or other crime prevention resources to help expand the first check point scheme based in Lancing, West Sussex, dealing with cowboy builders. [78167]
§ Mr. Denham[holding answer 29 October 2002]: We have made substantial funding available to local crime and disorder reduction partnerships (CDRPs), under the safer communities initiative, the communities against drugs programme and the partnership development fund, to enable them to tackle their crime problems. The Worthing and Adur CDRPs have been allocated £155,072 and £104,154 respectively for 2002–03 under these initiatives. No further central funding has been set aside for distraction burglary projects in 2002–03;
It is for CDRPs to decide on the priorities and plans for their area and to direct their funding accordingly. In the case of Worthing and Adur, their plans have already been made and approved. If First Check Point wishes to inquire about the possibility of obtaining funding from this source, it will need to contact those local authorities.
It would be open to anyone seeking to set up a similar local scheme elsewhere to approach their CDRP in the same way.
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