---

Surveillance Camera Commissioner – Annual Report

My hon Friend the Minister of State for Crime, Policing and the Fire Service (Kit Malthouse) has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement:

My Rt Hon Friend the Home Secretary is today laying the 2018/19 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 2019 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.

Copies of the report will be available from the Vote Office.