§ Mr. Milneasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will publish in the OFFICIAL REPORT a list of Government grants made to golf clubs since October, 1964; and for what purposes they were given.
§ Mr. Denis HowellPayments totalling £124,793 have been made so far towards grants amounting to £160,237 offered to the clubs listed below to assist with the222W purchase and lay-out of land and provision of premises for essential changing, washing and storage facilities. The estimated total cost of these projects was £444,388.
Further grants amounting to £96,712 have been offered to 21 clubs towards projects costing £307,268 but no payments have yet been made. These include grants totalling £66,653 offered provisionally subject to the fulfilment of certain conditions by the clubs concerned.
No Government grant is provided for social facilities.
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GRANTS PAYMENTS MADE TO GOLF CLUBS IN ENGLAND, WALES AND SCOTLAND SINCE OCTOBER, 1964 Club Grant Paid £ ENGLAND Cambridgeshire Girton … … 3,775 Cornwall Truro … … 2,080 Devon Honiton … … 648 Durham Chester-le-Street … … 2,697 Seaham Harbour … … 1,600 South Shields … … 4,386 Whitburn … … 1,681 Hampshire Winchester … … 5,000 Hertfordshire Boxmoor … … 812 Huntingdonshire St. Neots … … 5,657 Lincs. Louth … … 7,544 Sleaford … … 2,560 Norfolk Diss … … 843 Northants Market Harborough … … 1,505 Northumberland Whitley Bay … … 685 Shropshire Shifnal … … 10,000 Suffolk Felixstowe … … 3,566 Stowmarket … … 1,755 Warwickshire Rugby … … 1,075 Westmorland Windermere … … 1,778 Yorkshire Baildon … … 3,162 Clayton … … 3,463 South Bradford … … 2,422 Total … … £68,694
Club Grant Paid £ WALES Caernarvon Pwllheli … … 7,308 Cardigan Cardigan … … 937 Carmarthen Llandeilo … … 2,527 Monmouth Blackwood … … 5,215 Pembroke Milford Haven … … 2,590 Tenby … … 8,815 Radnor Llandrindod … … 55 Total … … £27,447 SCOTLAND Aberdeenshire Fraser Burgh … … 3,620 Huntly … … 1,638 Turriff … … 925 Argyllshire Cowal … … 1,273 Ayrshire Ardeer … … 4,622 Banff Keith … … 3,100 Dunbartonshire Bearsden … … 5,752 Inverness Fort Augustus … … 24 Sconser … … 533 Lanarkshire East Kilbride … … 991 Stirlingshire Bonnybridge … … 1,554 West Lothian Greenburn … … 3,620 Wigtownshire Wigtownshire County … … 1,000 Total … … £28,652