Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she will take steps to provide further Safer Street funding for investment in CCTV.

Since the Safer Streets Fund was established in 2020, we have invested £70 million through three rounds – funding a range of evidence-based situational crime prevention measures, including CCTV.

Through Round Four of the Fund, which launched in March, we are investing a further £50 million to tackle and prevent not only neighbourhood crime, but also violence against women and girls and anti-social behaviour. 111 successful projects were announced at the end of July and projects, which include delivery of improved and increased CCTV, will run over the 2022/23 and 2023/24 financial years.