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Mr. Maclean: It is for the chief constable to decide how his officers are to be deployed within the force area. I understand that decisions have not yet been taken about the deployment of extra officers to be recruited.

Closed Circuit Television

Mrs. Roche: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department who was on the judging panel which recommended to Ministers which bids should be successful under the closed circuit television challenge scheme; and how many of their recommendations Ministers accepted.      [17441]

Mr. Maclean: The recommendations to Ministers were based on the assessments of a five-person panel comprising Home Office officials-- including one with technical expertise--a business consultant and an academic consultant, both on secondment to the Home Office. Of the 480 bids received, 289 were assessed by the panel as being of good or very good quality. From that total, Ministers selected the 106 winners.

Mrs. Roche: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) unsuccessful and (b) successful bids for closed circuit television challenge funding fell into each of the four categories listed in the bidding guidance.      [17443]

Mr. Maclean: A significant number of bids, both successful and unsuccessful, fell into more than one category. The total number of bids by main category as described in the bidding guidance was as follows:

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Category A (Town Centre Schemes)       |295          

Category B (Neighbourhood Schemes)     |40           

Category C (Travel and Business Areas) |46           

Category D (Community Centres)         |99           

                                                     

Total                                  |480          

The number of successful bids by main category was as follows:

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Category A |90           

Category B |1            

Category C |11           

Category D |4            

Mrs. Roche: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many London bids were received for the closed circuit television challenge competition; and what amount those bids were for.      [17445]

Mr. Maclean: Some 60 bids were received from the London region, seeking a total of £3,414,000.

Mrs. Roche: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many of the (a) successful and (b) unsuccessful bids for the closed circuit television challenge scheme attracted private funding; and what was the average proportion of the total cost of each scheme to be financed by private funding.      [17438]

Mr. Maclean: Some 103 of the 106 successful bids had pledges of private sector funding. The remaining three successful bids were for neighbourhood or community schemes where private sector funding was not a requirement. It is estimated that the total value of private sector funding pledged for all bids received was £10 million.

Mrs. Roche: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will state for each of the successful bids in the closed circuit television challenge scheme (a) how much they will receive and (b) how much they bid.      [17442]

Mr. Maclean: The information is as follows:

CCTV competition: winners by government office region (and Wales)

Eastern Region

In this region each of the winners, as listed below, received the amount bid for.

Chelmsford Town Centre: £100,000.

Ely Town Centre: £8,300.

Peterborough Town Centre: £100,000.

Stevenage Town Centre: £100,000.

Hitchin Town Centre and Letchworth Business Park: £100,000. Harlow Town Centre: £50,000.

Thetford Town Centre: £100,000.

Hadleigh and Sudbury Town Centres: £100,000.

East Midlands

In this region each of the winners, as listed below, received the amount bid for, except Mansfield which bid for £100,000.

Gainsborough--Industrial Estates: £90,000.

Scawsby Community Centre, Workshop: £4,250.

Boston Town Centre: £20,000.

Kirton Town Centre: £7,500.

Kettering Town Centre: £50,000.

Ilkeston Town Centre: £45,000.

Norris Hill, Moira: £8,500.

Donington Town Centre: £8,250.

Loughborough Town Centre: £48,100.

Mansfield Town Centre: £50,000.

Market Harborough Town Centre: £40,000

South West

In this region all but two of the winners, as listed below, received the amount bid for. The Crown Glass Centre bid for £58,000 and Boscombe bid for £32,500.

Crown Glass Centre, Nailsea: £40,000.

Tiverton Town Centre: £12,000.

Boscombe Town Centre: £20,000.

Berkeley Square Car Park, Bristol: £19,000.

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Bodmin Town Centre: £12,000.

Cirencester Town Centre: £70,000.

Falmouth Town Centre: £25,000.

Newquay Town Centre: £50,000.

Truro Town Centre: £40,000.

Salisbury Town Centre: £100,000.

Torquay Town Centre: £50,000.

Wiltshire Mobile CCTV System: £10,000.

Gloucester City Centre: £10,000.

Tiverton Business Park: £7,400.

West Midlands

In this region all but two of the winners, as listed below, received the amount bid for. Worcester bid for £24,500. Tamworth bid for £75,000.

Worcester City Centre: £20,000.

Shrewsbury Town Centre: £100,000.

Tamworth Town Centre: £60,000.

Stratford upon Avon Town Centre: £50,000.

Rugby Town Centre: £70,000.

Hereford City Centre: £60,000.

Solihull Town Centre: £60,000.

Lichfield Town Centre: £93,300

Ledbury High Street: £10,000.

South East

In this region all but five of the winners, as listed below, received the amount bid for. Maidstone, Folkstone, High Wycombe and Wokingham each bid for £100,000. Addlestone bid for up to £100,000. Fawcett Road Shipping Area, Portsmouth: £28,500

Maidstone Town Centre: £50,000.

Ashford Town Centre: £89,000.

Havant Town Centre: £50,000.

Dover and Deal Town Centres: £17,500.

Folkestone Town Centre: £70,000.

High Wycombe Town Centre: £50,000.

Newhaven Town Centre: £41,000.

Egham Town Centre: £65,000.

Eastbourne Town Centre: £50,000.

Sandwich Town Centre: £7,500.

Rochester Business Estate: £35,000.

Dartford Town Centre: £50,000.

Tonbridge and West Malling Town Centres: £36,000

Addlestone Town Centre: £50,000

Banbury: £60,000

Wokingham Town Centre: £50,000

Basingstoke Town Centre: £25,000

Chesham: £23,000

Merseyside

Kirkby Railway Station:

Received: £28,750. Bid: £28,750.

London

In this region each of the winners, as listed below, received the amount bid for.

Harrow Town Centre: £50,000

Hillingdon Mobile CCTV System: £14,000

Sunbury Cross Shopping Centre: £45,000

Archway Mall, Islington: 12,400

Hounslow Town Centre: £50,000

Erith Town Centre: £50,000

Webbs Industrial Estate, Higham Lodge Business Centre and Blackhorse Mews, North Walthamstow: £46,000

Richmond Town Centre: £50,000

Yorkshire and Humberside

In this region all but one of the winners, as listed below, received the amount bid for. York bid for £100,000.

Harrogate Town Centre: £50,000

Outwood Grange School, Wakefield: £22,000

Balby Street School, Doncaster: £5,000

Lower Don Valley, Sheffield: £53,000

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