§ Mr. Banksasked the Secretary of State for Prices and Consumer Protection if 569W he will publish the amount of grants provided by (a) Government and (b) local authorities for the citizens advice bureau service for each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement on his future intentions.
§ Mr. John Fraser:My Department expects to provide a total of£1.26 million to the National Association of Citizen's Advice Bureaux in the current financial year. Total grants to the association from central Government in the last four years were as follows:
1974–75 £377,000 1975–76 £766,000 1976–77 £1,193,000 1977–78 £1,142,000 No similar information is available about the total of local authority assistance to individual citizen's advice bureaux. I have nothing to add to the statement about future Government assistance to the citizens advice bureau service which I made in answer to my hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham, Ladywood (Mr. Sever) on 16th November this year.