§ Mr. McLoughlinTo ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if she will list the grants funded by her Department for which individual members of the public and organisations may apply; and if she will make a statement as to(a) the total of such funding in the last financial year, (b) the total number of awards and (c) their administrative costs. [82191]
§ Ms Hewitt(a) Information on the Department's grant-making schemes together with funding for 2001–02 is available in Annex BI and in the text of my 2002 Expenditure Plans Report (Cm 5416), a copy of which is in the Libraries of the House.
(b) Information on numbers of awards is not held centrally by the Department and to provide it would entail disproportionate cost.
(c) It is not possible to provide an accurate estimate of related administrative costs as a large number of different units within the Department are involved with a wide range of staff making a contribution.