Reduced Street Lighting: Effect on Crime
Home Department
Jim Cunningham (Coventry South, Labour)
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what recent assessment she has made of the effect of reduced street lighting on (a) levels and (b) fear of crime in England and Wales.
Iain Wright (Hartlepool, Labour)
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what recent assessment she has made of the effect of reduced street lighting on (a) levels and (b) fear of crime in England and Wales.
Nick Herbert (Minister of State, Justice; Arundel and South Downs, Conservative)
A review of local authority street lighting last year found that while there is potential to reduce carbon emissions and light pollution, as well as deliver savings, these benefits need to be considered in the context of the important role that lighting plays in helping to reduce crime.