§ Mr. Ronald Bellasked the Secretary of State for Transport for what purposes the sum of £289,000 is paid out of public funds to the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents; and how the uses to which it may be applied are specified.
§ Mr. William RodgersMy Department's grant to the society is in two parts. The larger portion—estimated at £235,000 for 1978–79—is mainly for the activities 179W of RoSPA's training development and liaison unit, whose work includes researching developing and promoting techniques for road user education and for publicity and training schemes for use by local authorities. This element also contains contributions to RoSPA's publications service and to its central administration costs. The services required of the society are specified in a letter addressed to the director general of the society in November 1974.
A separate grant—estimated at £54,000 for 1978–79—maintains the Road Safety Education Development Unit which is looking into more acceptable ways of teaching road safety in schools. The unit's terms of reference were laid down by the Department in 1975.