Financial details of the 1st round 1995/1996 are still awaited. Partial details of the 4th round 1998/9 are now available.
Subsidies are typically 40-50% of the capital cost of CCTV Surveillance scheme, with a typical Town Centre scheme costing over £200,000. Some small/medium sized towns such as Colchester or Woking have spent over £1 million, as has Birmingham, but spread over a wide geographical area.
The 3rd round obviously capped the maximum grant to £135,000 per scheme, and the lack of funding for School projects compared with the 2nd round is noticable. This may reflect the Dept. of Education funding made available to schools for security following the outcry over the stabbing of the headmaster.
One might ask what effect CCTV Surveillance will have on the schoolchildren, and if sufficient safeguards have been taken to prevent access to even "innocent" CCTV pictures of children becoming available to paedophiles.Why do so many Roman Catholic Schools and "Community Schools" need CCTV Surveillance ?
Home Office CCTV Challenge Competition Round 4 1998/9 The Labour Government has been a lot stingier with subsidies for CCTV Surveillance schemes than the previous one. �1 million has been distributed to 32 schemes, with a maximum grant of �75,000. Details of which schemes are for mobile cameras etc. are still awaited.
The regional imbalance of successful bids for funds is also apparent e.g. Birmingham seems very keen on subsidised CCTV, Merseyside does not, or else does not apply for funds as effectively.
There are plenty of other privately funded CCTV Surveillance schemes, but these tables give an idea of the spread of the technology into formerly anonymous public areas, all without a coherent set of enforceable rules to prevent abuse.