Closed Circuit Television
Home Department
Written answers and statements, 5 November 2009
James Brokenshire (- Shadow Minister, Home Affairs; Hornchurch, Conservative)
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much funding his Department has allocated (a) directly and (b) indirectly via grants to (i) local authorities and (ii) other organisations for the provision of closed circuit television cameras in each of the last five years; and what estimate he has made of the likely level of such funding in (A) 2009-10 and (B) 2010-11.
Alan Campbell (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Home Office; Tynemouth, Labour)
Between 1999 and 2003, £170 million of capital funding was made available to local authorities under the Home Office Crime Reduction programme. This resulted in 680 schemes being installed in town centres and other public places. Central funding has been spent on CCTV since 2003 through various programmes such as Communities Against Drugs, the Safer Communities Initiative and the Building Safer Communities Initiative. Central data are not held on how much has been spent or will be spent in future years on CCTV-related activity through Area Based Grant. ABG funding is non-ringfenced and local authorities can spend it as they see fit to support the delivery of local, regional and national priorities in their area.