§ Miss Joan Lestorasked the Secretary of State for Social Services how much grant assistance his Department has made available to centres working with rape victims for each of the past three years.
§ Mr. Geoffrey FinsbergI refer the hon. Member to my reply to the hon. Member for Wolverhampton, North-East (Mrs. Short) on 8 February 1982.—[Vol. 17, c.274–5.]
The rape counselling and research project has received the following grants from this Department under section 64 of the Health Services and Public Health Act 1968:
Financial Year £ 1978–1979 *3,000 1979–1980 8,000 1980–1981 8,000 1981–1982 10,000 * This amount, paid in the year 1979–1980, was in respect of the period November 1978 to March 1979 in the previous financial year.