Departmental Initiatives (Hansard, 20 July 2000)

§ Mr. Straw

The information requested for Home Office initiatives for which grants are given, including those subject to a competitive bidding process, for the four financial years from May 1997 to 2000–01 is provided in the table.

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Initiatives	May 1997–98 (£000)	1998–99 (£000)	1999–2000 (£000)	2000–01 (£000)	Successful bids	Percentage of total bids
Community Support Grants
Active Community Initiatives	0	0	700	1,311	5	45
Older Volunteers Initiative	0	0	788	416	27	93
Regional Voluntary Sector Networks	0	0	573	1,060	18	100
Support for Community Self-Help	0	0	420	820	2	100
Business Partnerships	0	0	137	220	3	100
Family Support Grant
National Family and Parenting Institute	0	0	200	2,205	—²	—²
Family Support Grant	0	0	1,000	3,000	64	30
Parent Line	0	0	333	333	—²	—²
Fire Service Youth Training Association	0	0	25	58	—²	—²
Reception and Resettlement of Refugees
Montserrat	723	511	537	0	—¹	—¹
Kosovo	0	0	14,400	20,200	43	94
Voluntary Bodies to Support Kosovan Refugees	0	0	8,900	5,500	6	100
National Asylum Support Services (NASS)⁴
Hard Cases Grant	0	0	0	7,011	—¹	—¹
Refugee Council	0	0	930	6,532	—¹	—¹
Central Services Team	0	0	160	294	—¹	—¹
Refugee Council Offices	0	0	54	68	—¹	—¹
Migrant Helpline	0	0	294	2,070	—¹	—¹
Refugee Arrivals Project	0	0	293	1,802	—¹	—¹
Refugee Action	0	0	304	2,024	—¹	—¹
Scottish Refugee Council	0	0	128	651	—¹	—¹
Welsh Refugee Council	0	0	0	537	—¹	—¹
Prison Service Initiatives
Partners of Prisoners' Support Groups	0	27	3	0	0	0
Federation of Prisoners' Families Support Groups	0	19	20	0	0	0
Institute of Linguists Educational Trust	0	3	0	0	0	0
Prisoners' Community Liaison	0	9	0	0	0	0
Female Prisoners' Welfare Project	0	20	0	0	0	0
The New Bridge to support rehabilitative projects	0	20	20	20	—¹	—¹
Prisons' Video Trust	0	0	70	70	—¹	—¹
Literacy and Black Incarceration Project	0	0	7	0	0	0
Race Equality Grant	0	0	0	2,200	0	0
Research
Innovative Research Fund	0	0	840	200	—	—
¹ Initiatives not subject to a competitive bidding process.
² Initiatives for which the bidding process is still in progress, as the total and successful number of bids are not yet known.
³ The Crime Fighting Fund was set up to enable recruitment of 3,000 police officers over and above current levels. All 43 police authorities bid for funding and all were successful in at least part of their bid.
⁴ Grant funding arrangements for NASS arose out of an existing relationship with the refugee voluntary sector. There are no plans to put bids for these initiatives out to competitive tender until after 31 March 2000. The existing organisations receiving funds will be notified of such a move by 31 March 2001.

Note:

1. The figures for 2000–01 are estimates and could be subject to in-year changes. The figures do not take account of any locally funded initiatives undertaken by individual prisons nor all those funded by the Home Office's non-departmental public bodies, as such detail could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.

The figures for "successful bids" and "proportion of total bids" are for 2000–01 only, as figures for the three previous years could also be obtained only at disproportionate cost.

The table does not include specific grants to bodies where these were initiated before May 1997. Nor does the table include the Capital Modernisation Fund and the Invest to Save Budget, which are not Home Office specific initiatives.

The data collected on average expenditure of organisations bidding for funding through each initiative 328W is dependent on the type of grants and size of payment. The minimum requirements are that an organisation provides: either, a copy of the receipts and payments accounts and Assets and Liabilities Statement (or, if one is produced, an Income and Expenditure account), or, in the case of charities or organisations with a turnover in excess of £1,000,000, a copy of the Income and Expenditure account, balance sheet, external audit report or independent accountants' opinion.