Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which funding authority is responsible for the installation of (a) rising bollards and (b) other such permanent road furniture designed to prevent terrorist attacks; and what assessment she has made of the potential benefits of establishing a central fund for such installations.

The Government provides high quality advice and guidance to the owners and operators of major crowded places through police Counter Terrorism Security Advisors.

The costs of protective security measures such as rising bollards or other permanent street furniture, as part of security capabilities installed at a given location fall to the owner, operator or responsible authority under the user pays principle. We will consider as part of the review of Government’s Counter Terrorism Strategy, CONTEST, where it would be appropriate to revise existing approaches.