HC Deb 22 February 1978 vol 944 cc651-2W
Dr. Edmund Marshall

asked the Secretary of State for Prices and Consumer Protection how many applications he has received for capital cost grants for new consumer advice centres under the scheme announced on 29th November 1977; how many have been approved; and whether he will list those centres offered grants.

Mr. John Fraser

My Department received 46 applications. With the funds available 28 have been approved, all but two of which are for new centres.

The centres which have been offered grant-aid are:

SCOTLAND

  • Highland Regional Council—Fort William (m)
  • Highland Regional Council—Inverness (m)
  • Highland Regional Council—Wick (m)
  • Strathclyde Regional Council—Greenock
  • Strathclyde Regional Council—Motherwell

Western Isles

  • Island Council—Stornoway

WALES

  • Clwyd County Council—Clwyd (m)
  • Clwyd County Council—Colwyn Bay
  • Clwyd County Council—Prestatyn
  • Mid-Glamorgan County Council—Caerphilly
  • West-Glamorgan County Council—Neath

NORTHERN REGION

  • Cleveland County Council—Redcar
  • *Tyne and Wear County Council—South Shields (m)
  • *Tyne and Wear County Council—Sunderland

WEST MIDLANDS

  • Stoke-on-Trent District Council—Stoke-on-Trent
  • Walsall District Council—Walsall
  • Warwick/Leamington Spa—Leamington Spa

Consumer Group

  • West Midlands CAB Area Office Birmingham (Colmore Circus)
  • West Midlands CAB Area Office—Coventry
  • West Midlands CAB Area Office—West Midland (m)
  • Wolverhampton District Council—Wolverhampton

EAST ANGLIA

  • Cambridgeshire County Council—Huntingdon (m)
  • Cambridgeshire County Council—Fenland (m)

SOUTH EAST

  • Reading District Council—Reading
  • Rushmoor Consumer Group—Aldershot

LONDON

  • Barnet Borough Council—Barnet (m)
  • Lewisham Borough Council—Lewisham

SOUTH WEST

  • *Wiltshire County Council—Swindon
  • (m) = Mobile
  • * = Improvements to existing centres

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