Written question asked by Denis Murphy (Labour) on Wednesday, 7 March 2001, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 15 March 2001. It was answered by Charles Clarke (Labour) on Thursday, 15 March 2001 on behalf of the Home Office.

Home Office

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will list, by constituency, the closed circuit TV schemes that have been (a) funded and (b) part-funded by the Government in each of the last three years, and the cost of each. - Inc figures. (Table in Library Dep 01/444).

Answer: Mr. Denis Murphy: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list, by constituency, the closed circuit TV schemes that have been (a) funded and (b) part-funded by the Government in each of the last three years, and the cost of each. [153141] Mr. Charles Clarke: Details of closed circuit television (CCTV) schemes funded wholly or in part by the Home Office during each of the last three years are listed by Parliamentary Constituency. The schemes listed include those approved to date under the Crime Reduction Programme CCTV Initiative and those funded in 1998 under Round 4 of the earlier CCTV Challenge Competition. During the last three years, 283 CCTV schemes totalling more than £65 million have been awarded Home Office funding, of which 106 schemes were wholly funded by the Home Office, and 277 schemes were part-funded with nearly £19 million committed from other sources.

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