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Surveillance Camera Commissioner – Annual Report

My rt hon Friend the Minister of State for Policing and the Fire Service (Nick Hurd) has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement:

My rt hon Friend the Home Secretary is today laying a copy of the 2017/18 Annual Report of the Surveillance Camera Commissioner before the House, as required by section 35 of the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012.

The Surveillance Camera Commissioner is an independent role appointed under section 34 of the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012.

The Annual Report covers the exercise of the Surveillance Camera Commissioner’s statutory functions over the year to 31 March 2018 and provides a comprehensive update on the progress made against the National Surveillance Camera Strategy for England and Wales, which the Commissioner published in March 2017.