Clause 48 - Penalty notices in respect of graffiti or
Anti-social Behaviour Bill
4:30 pm
Mrs Liz Blackman (Erewash, Labour)
I want to confine my comments to a couple of points.
I have never believed that the quality of the environment is an add-on. It is essential to people's self-esteem and feeling of well-being and it enables them to feel part of the community. I welcome the clause.
I want to take up one of the issues identified by the hon. Member for Surrey Heath concerning the funding of the imposition of penalty notices. The revenue raised by speed cameras is already recycled back into the police pot. Will the Minister consider ways in which the revenue taken from penalty notices-or at least some of it-might find its way back into the local authority pot?