§ Mr. Nigel GriffithsTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland when the Leukaemia and Cancer Children's Fund applied for a special grant of £35,000 for the Millerfield family centre; when it was paid; what criteria he applied in considering this application; which fund was the source of the grant; and if he will list the grants given in 1992 from the same source.
§ Mr. Stewart[holding answer 2 December 1992]: The Leukaemia and Cancer Children's Fund applied to the Scottish Office Home and Health Department in May this year for funding under the scheme of grants operated under section 16B of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978. The grant was paid in June this year to meet the organisation's immediate funding difficulties. As with all such applications, the criteria employed were those set out in statute and in the memorandum of guidance approved by Her Majesty's Treasury which applies to the scheme. The possibility of assisting the fund in 1993–94 is still under consideration. Expenditure on the section 16B grant scheme is borne on vote 12 subhead K6(1). Total expenditure on that sub-programme in the current financial year will amount to some £300,000, and the following bodies will benefit:
- Action on Smoking and Health (Scotland)
- Age Concern Scotland
- ACET—AIDS Care and Education Training
- Alzheimers Scotland
- Bell's Palsy Self-Help Group
- Breast Care and Mastectomy Association
- British Association of Immediate Care Schemes
- British Fluoridation Society
- Brook Advisory Centre
- Cancerlink
- Community Service Volunteers
362 - Dementia Services Department Centre
- Disability Scotland
- Enuresis Resource and Information Centre
- Epilepsy Association
- Family Planning Association
- Hypogammaglobulinaemia Society
- Leukaemia and Cancer Children's Fund
- Medical Commission on Accident Prevention
- Muscular Dystrophy Group
- National AIDS Trust
- National Association for the Childless
- National Association for the Welfare of Children in Hospital
- National Childbirth Trust
- National Family Planning Group
- National Schizophrenia Fellowship
- Play Matters
- Play in Scottish Hospitals
- Red Cross Society
- RSPCC—Overnewton Centre
- Scottish AIDS Monitor
- Scottish Association for Mental Health
- Scottish Catholic Marriage Advisory Council
- Scottish Child and Family Alliance
- Scottish Cot Death Trust
- Scottish Council on Alcohol
- Scottish Drugs Forum
- Scottish Heart and Arterial Risk Prevention Group
- Scottish Huntington's Association
- Scottish Motor Neurone Disease Association
- Scottish National Blood Transfusion Association
- Scottish Partnership Agency for Palliative and Cancer Care
- Sense in Scotland
- Stillbirth and Neonatal Death Society
- Twins and Multiple Birth Association
- Volunteer Development Scotland
§ Mr. Nigel GriffithsTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland (1) how many special grants have been awarded in 1992 to voluntary and charitable organisations;
(2) how many grant applications his Department received from voluntary organisations in the last year for which figures are available; and how many of these applications were not successful in obtaining his Department's funding.
§ Mr. Stewart[holding answer 2 December 1992]: My right hon. Friend is directly responsible for a wide range of voluntary sector grant schemes. Grants may be for continuing administrative costs, projects, capital expenditure or in exceptional circumstances single payments. In 1991–92 the Department received 722 applications from voluntary organisations from which 463 grants were given.