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Rotherham

Sheffield

Sheffield--industrial estates

Staffordshire

Burton Upon Trent

Lichfield

South Staffordshire--five schools

Tamworth

Suffolk

Forest Heath--Newmarket

Mildenhall

Brandon

Ipswich

Surrey

Addlestone

Chertsey

Egham

Guildford

Kingston

Sussex

Eastbourne

Hailsham

Hastings

Horsham

Newhaven

Worthing

Thames Valley

Banbury, Oxfordshire

Bicester, Oxfordshire

Kildington, Oxfordshire

Chesham, Buckinghamshire

Newbury, Berkshire

Oxford

Windsor, Maidenhead and Eton

Wokingham, Berkshire

High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire

Warwickshire

Nuneaton and Bedworth

Stratford on Avon

West Mercia

Bridgnorth endowed school, Shropshire

Bridgnorth, Shropshire

Hereford

Ledbury, Herefordshire

Shrewsbury

Tenbury Wells, Worcestershire

Whitchurch, Shropshire

Worcester

West Midlands

Villa road and Lozells road, Birmingham

Cannon Hill park, Birmingham

Coventry

Rugby

Solihull

Stockingford middle school, Nuneaton, Warwickshire

Broad street car park, Wolverhampton

Yew Tree Estate, Walsall

West Bromwich

Cape hill, Sandwell

Galton village community centre, Sandwell

West Yorkshire

Bingley

Canterbury estate, Bradford

Keighley, Bradford

Elland

Halifax

Kettlethorpe high school, Wakefield

Outwood Grange school, Wakefield

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Wiltshire

Salisbury

West Wiltshire--mobile system

Mrs. Roche: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his answer of 31 March, Official Report, column 854 , what criteria were used by Ministers to decide which of the bids for closed circuit TV funding assessed by the panel as being of good or very good quality would receive funding.      [21025]

Mr. Maclean: The criteria used to assess all of the bids for funding for CCTV in the recent challenge competition were those published in the bidding guidance document issued on 9 November 1994.

Private Security Companies

Mr. Parry: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he has sought the opinion of the Merseyside police authority on the Protect -U-Rite private security company based in Liverpool; and if he will make a statement.      [21145]

Mr. Maclean: No.

Mr. Parry: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what assessment he has made of any link between the setting up of a private security company on Merseyside and the reduction in the Merseyside police budget and if he will make a statement.      [21147]

Mr. Maclean: There is no link between the setting up of private security companies in a particular area and the budget of the local police force. Merseyside police authority has taken advantage of the additional funds made available for 1995 96 and has set this year's force budget at £218.56 million. That is an increase of £5.33 million, or 2.5 per cent., over the base budget for 1994 95.

Mr. Parry: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what assessment he has made of the process used by private security companies to check on possible criminal records of their employees; and if he will make a statement.      [21148]

Mr. Maclean: It is for private security companies themselves to decide what checks to carry out in assessing the suitability of prospective employees. They do not at present have access to criminal records, but we are looking at the case for such access as part of our wider review of the arrangements for disclosure of criminal records.

Public Bodies

Dr. Wright: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department which of the advisory non-departmental public bodies sponsored by his Department are under a statutory requirement to (a) publish their advice to the Government, (b) publish an annual report and (c) lay an annual report before Parliament; and if he will list those bodies with a statutory base.      [21160]

Mr. Howard: The information is as follows:

(a) Advisory NDPBs required by statute to publish their advice Firearms Consultative Committee

Parliamentary Boundary Commission for England

Parliamentary Boundary Commission for Wales

(b) Advisory NDPBs required by statute to publish an annual report

The Animal Procedures Committee

Firearms Consultative Committee

The Parole Board

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(c) Advisory NDPBs required by statute to lay an annual report before Parliament

The Animal Procedures Committee

Firearms Consultative Committee

The Parole Board

(d) Advisory NDPBs with a statutory basis

Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs

Animal Procedures Committee

Central Fire Brigades Advisory Council

Firearms Consultative Committee

Parliamentary Boundary Commission for England

Parliamentary Boundary Commission for Wales

Parole Board

Poisons Board

Police Negotiating Board

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