§ Mr. EvansTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what funds are available to crime reductions partnerships to(a) install CCTV in problem crime areas and (b) combat crime in deprived areas. [88650]
§ Mr. Denham[holding answer 7 January 2003]: Under the Crime Reduction Programme Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) Initiative around £170 million will be spent between 1998 and 2003 funding 684 CCTV schemes. More than 520 of these schemes are already fully operational, with further schemes coming on line weekly.
Although this initiative is now closed, other opportunities for funding of crime reduction measures, including CCTV schemes, currently exist under the Safer Communities, Communities Against Drugs and the Small Retailers in Deprived Areas initiatives.
In 2002–03 the funds available under these three initiatives total £96-million Safe Communities Initiatives (SCI) £20 million, Communities Against Drugs (CAD) £70 million, Small Retailers in Deprived Areas (SRDA) £6 million.
The Updated Drug Strategy was published in November 2002, and makes further progress towards breaking the link between drugs and crime by introducing or extending a range of interventions aimed at getting offenders with drug problems into drug treatment, in particular taking forward the work we have already done on Arrest Referral and Drug Treatment and Testing Orders, building on the pilot Drug Testing projects by extending this approach more widely, and developing better systems for throughcare and aftercare.
In addition, in 2003–04, funding of £236 million has been made available from the National Pooled Budget for the treatment of adults and young people, from 312W 1999, £20 million has been made available over three years for Arrest Referral schemes and £53.7 million for Drug Treatment and Testing Orders.