Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to increase support for the further use of CCTV and improved lighting to reduce crime and anti-social behaviour.

Through the Safer Streets Fund, we are providing local organisations, including local authorities, with the resources they need to tackle crime and anti-social behaviour through evidence based and innovative interventions including improved CCTV and lighting.

£50 million per year is being invested in the Safer Streets Fund over the next three years, and since the Fund was established, we have already invested £70 million.

Round Four of the Fund launched in March with the primary focus of targeting neighbourhood crime, violence against women and girls and, for the first time, anti-social behaviour. Police and Crime Commissioners, local authorities, and certain civil society organisations across England and Wales were eligible to bid for funding and bids are currently being assessed.