The Government announced £150 million funding in March 1999 to subsidize CCTV schemes over the next 3 years as part of a £400 million community crime reduction programme. There is still very little consistancy nationwide, and still no proper monitoring of the cost effectiveness of existing CCTV schemes.

Why do the 29,000 households covered by one scheme require 60 times fewer CCTV cameras per household compared to a small village of 200 households ?- either one of the schemes is complete overkill, or the other is very under specified.

The fact that integrated control rooms are only now being budgeted for shows that the original schemes cannot have been as effective as claimed. The brief notes released by the Home office on some of the schemes show a lack of emphasis on CCTV as a deterrent against crimes of violence against people, and more on car crime. These Home Office notes hint at a perception of crime displacement from existing CCTV areas.

The first schemes were announced on 30th November 1999 (£4 million), and a further £33 million was announced January 17th 2000.

	30th November 1999		17th January 2000
	Number of Schemes 36	£3,84,0075 of public subsidy	Number of Schemes 173	£32.6 million of public subsidy
Eastern	1	£26,000	19	£2.3 million
East Midlands	4	£532,559	17	£2.9 million
London	3	£139,000	27	£8.7 million
North East	3	£282,500	11	£1.4 million
North West	7	£478,936	13	£3.4 million
South East	6	£528,871	27	£2.5 million
South West	5	£468,456	14	£3.3 million
Wales	0	£0	9	£1.1 million
West Midlands	5	£1,042,748	21	£3.2 million
Yorkshire & Humberside	2	£341,005	15	£3.8 million