§ Mr. Joplingasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science how much money has been allocated in grants for village halls and community centres for each county in England and Wales in the last year, including the number of schemes approved in each county.
§ Mr. Hugh JenkinsThe amounts allocated are set out in the table below. Local education authorities decide inividually on which projects they will use their allocations which are made on the basis set out in the Department's Circular No.276W 13/71 of which I am sending a copy to the hon. Member.
VOLUNTARY VILLAGE HALLS AND COMMUNITY CENTRES ENGLAND Local Education Authority Amount allocated (1975–76) £ Avon 48,700 Bedfordshire 24,150 Berkshire 10,150 Buckinghamshire 89,750 Cambridgeshire 11,250 Cheshire 73,000 Cleveland 11,400 Cornwall 5,200 Cumbria 8,850 Derbyshire 3,200 Devon 25,150 Dorset 41,600 Durham 56,300 East Sussex 17,700 Essex 60,300 Gloucestershire 38,150 Hampshire 69,800 Hereford and Worcester 23,850 Hertfordshire 33,500 Humberside 34,200 Isle of Wight 8,000 Isles of Scilly Nil Kent 116,050 Lancashire 54,550 Leicestershire 48,050 Lincolnshire 30,700 Norfolk 80,000 North Yorkshire 17,800 Northamptonshire 33,200 Northumberland 13,200 Nottinghamshire 17,500 Oxfordshire 33,550 Salop 21,500 Somerset 26,350 Staffordshire 22,000 Suffolk 39,700 Surrey 28,300 Warwickshire 7,000 West Sussex 53,800 Wiltshire 38,850 WALES Clwyd 37,150 Dyfed 11,450 Gwent 12,300 Gwynedd 40,500 Mid-Glamorgan Nil Powys 22,100 South Glamorgan 2,800 West Glamorgan 35,000