Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Government will make an assessment of the potential merits of allocating additional funding to local authorities to improve street safety, such as additional funding for the maintenance of street lighting.

The Government is providing local authorities with additional funding to improve street safety through the Safer Streets Fund.

Over the first four rounds of the Safer Streets Fund, £120 million has been awarded to local projects to prevent crime through measures such as improved street lighting.

Local authorities have been eligible to bid for funding since Round Two of the Fund. All rounds of funding are subject to independent evaluation, which is vital to understand what is effective at improving street safety and how future Government investment should be targeted.