§ Mrs. Chalkerasked the Secretary of State for Prices and Consumer Protection what grant his Department has made to the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, to the National Consumer Council, to the National Council for Social Service and to consumer advice centres and citizens advice bureaux, in each of the last three years; what grant his Department expects to make in 1977–78 to each of these bodies; and whether these figures were included or excluded in the Written Answer given to the hon. Member for Wallasey on 10th November 1977.
§ Mr. John Fraser, pursuant to his reply, [Official Report, 16th December 1977; Vol. 941, c. 479–80], gave the following information:
The grants made were as follows:
the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
§ Mr. Clinton DavisThere are 21 Commissioners, including the Lord Mayor of Dublin and three aldermen or councillors appointed by the Dublin Corporation, the remainder being co-opted members with a wide range of experience and interest in the sea. I am sending a list of their names to the hon. Member. The Commissioners employ 596 staff, recruited in the Republic of Ireland and in Northern Ireland, to man the lighthouses, lightvessels and buoy tenders operated by the Commissioners and to work in the lighthouse depots and the Dublin headquarters of the service. The expenditure of the Commissioners is met from the general lighthouse fund, into which are paid all light dues collected from ships calling at ports in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland.