Voluntary Organisations

HC Deb 05 July 1995 vol 263 cc207-8W

Miss Hoey

To ask the Secretary of State for National Heritage how many voluntary sector organisations his Department has(a) paid grants to or (b) entered into contracts within (i) 1993–94; and (ii) 1994–95; and what was the total value of these grants and contracts. [31307]

Mr. Dorrell

In 1993–94, my Department paid grants to 32 voluntary sector organisations. The total value of

	Conservative	Labour	Liberal Democrat	Independent	Not known/other	Male	Female
Appleby	11	1	0	0	0	6	6
Carlisle	33	19	12	3	11	44	34
Furness and District	37	8	3	3	9	34	26
Kendal and Lonsdale	16	6	8	2	5	22	15
Keswick	5	1	0	0	2	4	4

these grants was £832.420. In 1994–95, the number of organisations was 31 and the total value of grants was £874,731. My Department has no contracts with voluntary organisations.