§ Mr. Meadowcroftasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will list in the Official Report the number of grants given in 1984–85 under the Education Act 1944, section 100(1)(b); to whom these grants were given; and what were the individual sums involved.
§ Sir Keith JosephDetails of grants given by the Department in 1984–85 to bodies (other than local education authorities) for educational services, under section 17 of the Education (Grant) Regulations 1983 are listed in table 23 of the Department's annual report 1984, 17W a copy of which is in the Library. The following grants were also given in 1984–85 under regulations made under the Education Act 1944, section 100(1)(b):
Grants 1984–85 £000 Special Schools (Capital) 140 Direct Grant Schools (Current and Capital) 250 Music and Ballet Schools (Current and Capital) 2,202 Grant-aided Colleges (Current, Capital and Restructuring Grant) 79,328 Royal College of Art (Current and Capital) 6,098 Cranfield Institute of Technology (Current and Capital) 8,461 British Universities Film and Video Council Ltd. 121 Adult Education: £000 Responsible Bodies 7,879 Residential Colleges 1,299 National Associations 1,746 Trade Union Studies 787 Adult Unemployed 234 British Chess Federation 27 Long Term Residential Colleges Bursaries 1,435 The following grants were given towards the headquarters expenditure of national voluntary youth organisations under section 20(1)(b) of the regulations:
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Organisation 1984–85 Anglican Young People's Association — Army Cadet Force Association 7,400 Association for Jewish Youth 17,150 Baptist Union of Great Britain and Ireland 18,200 Boys' Brigade 30,600 British Council of Churches 8,650 British Red Cross Society 8,200 British Trust for Conservation Volunteers 18,650 Campaigners 5,300 Catholic Youth Service Council 5,300 Church Lad's Brigade and Church Girls' Brigade 15,500 Church of England Board of Education 10,150 Colony Holidays — Concordia — Concourse — Co-operative Union 1,700 Council for Environmental Conservation 19,300 Council for Environmental Education Council for Nature — Covenanters 1,100 Da watul Islam: United Kingdom and Eire 5,250 Discovery Dockland Trust 2,100 Dockland Settlements — Drake Fellowship 19,500 Duke of Edinburgh's Award 70,550 Endeavour Training 21,450 Forest Schools Camps 1,250 Foudroyant Trust 6,650 Frontier Youth Trust 3,600 Gingerbread Holidays 1,000 Girl Guides Association 44,400 Girls' Brigade 20,100 Girls' Friendly Society — Girls' Venture Corps 22,150 Horse Rangers Association 1,100 Inter-Action Trust 14,900 International Voluntary Service 1,050 Invalid Children's Aid Association 2,000 Jewish Lads' and Girls' Brigade 5,000 JMB Development Training 3,600 Methodist Association of Youth Clubs 74,800 National Association for Asian Youth — National Association of Boys' Clubs 159,600 National Association of Muslim Youth 11,850 National Association of Youth Clubs 265,100 National Elfrida Rathbone Society 19,300 National Federation of 18+ Groups 30,550
Organisation 1984–85 National Federation of Gateway Clubs 31,500 National Federation of Young Farmers' Clubs 69,750 National PHAB 36,500 National Youth Assembly 8,100 National Youth Orchestra 4,150 National Youth Theatre 34,450 Ocean Youth Club 10,300 Outward Bound Trust 13,200 Quaker Home Service 10,850 Reform Synagogues of Great Britain 3,500 Royal Society of the Protection of Birds 2,400 Sail Training Association 4,350 Salvation Army 9,050 Save the Children 1,200 Scout Association 47,100 Sea Cadet Association 13,400 St. John Ambulance 8,800 Task Force — Union of Maccabi Association 3,750 United Kingdom Federation of Jazz Bands 4,150 United Reformed Church 29,800 Woodcraft Folk 5,900 Young Christian Workers 25,150 Young Men's Christian Association 134,550 Young Womens' Christian Association 65,200 Youth Hostels Association 34,000 19W
Table 23. Grants to bodies other than local education authorities for educational services under the Educational Services and Research Grant Regulations 1946 (Grant Regulations, No. 4) *† Organisation Grant made or approved in 1984–85 £ Div. 1 CRAC/NICEC: conference 1,000 Educational Institute of Design, Craft and Technology 350 Association for All Speech Impaired Children (AFASIC) 10,000 British Association for Early Childhood Education 2,250 British Association for the Advancement of Science: Young Investigators 20,000 British Association Young Scientists 11,000 British ORT Trust 15,000 Centre for Education and Development in Teacher Education 43,220 Centre for Education: UK National Committee 11,500 Centre for Information on Language Teaching and Research 347,590 Centre for Mathematics Education: Open University 47,600 CGLI Co-ordinating Committee Validating Agricultural Education 40,000 Community Service Volunteers Schools Advisory Service 24,500 Council for Educational Technology for the Uniteed Kingdom‡ 699,530 Council for Education in World Citizenship 38,530 Educational Counselling and Credit Transfer Information Service 401,320 Educational Disadvantage Projects 31,375 Further Education Unit 3,332,000 International Baccalaureate Office 14,600 Joint Board for the Certificate of Pre-Vocational Education 310,000 Molecule Club 5,000 National Association for Gifted Children 5,000 National Bureau for Handicapped Students 15,000 National Committee for Mathematical Contests 100 National Development Programme for Microelectronics in Education (CETUK)‡ 5,237,080 National Foundation for Educational Research‡ 10,000 Pre-School Playgroups Association 57,700 Project Trident 15,000 Royal Institution: Mathematics Master Classes 5,000
organisation Grant made or approved in 1984–85 £ Standing Committee for the Education and Training of Teachers (SCETT) 1,500 Standing Conference on Education for International Understanding 3,000 Standing Conference on Schools Science and Technology 34,900 UK-EEC Education Information Centre (EPIC) 39,000 World Organisation for Early Childhood Education: UK National Committee 750 Mathematical Association: residential workshop 3,000 School Technology Forum 3,500 Centre for Study of Comprehensive Schools 6,500 Royal Association for Disability and Rehabilitation (RADAR) 6,000 Germinations: Art Exhibition 12,400 Polytechnics Central Admissions System (PCAS) 100,000 Leicester University Centre for Training and Development in Social and Moral Education 7,500 Central Register and Clearing House 10,000 Understanding Industry 10,000 London Institute: Annual Statistics Prize-giving 1,500 Association of Teachers of Mathematics 4,060 * These Reguations were superseded by The Education (Grant) Regulations 1983, with effect from 1 April 1983.
† Where the grant included an element of research, as in the case of the bodies marked ‡ the relevant sums are also reported in Appendix I.