HC Deb 18 July 1979 vol 970 cc710-3W
Mr. Peter Bottomley

asked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will list the names of voluntary organisations to which grants or loans are made by his Department together with the amounts for the latest period if such information is available.

Mr. Jim Lester

The voluntary organisations to which the Department of Employment and the Manpower Services Commission made grants in 1978–79 and the amounts involved, where available, were as follows: Special Employment Programmes The following organisations were centrally funded by the MSC in 1978–79 for work related to their special programmes for the unemployed:

1978–79 Budget
£
British Youth Council 122,513
National Association of Youth Clubs 22,130
National Council of Social Services 26,700
National Extension College 89,768
National Youth Bureau 41,827
Scottish Community Education Centre 15,300

Individual voluntary organisations may also be funded by MSC at local level for specific projects under these programmes, but information on the extent of this funding is not readily available.

Community Industry

The National Association of Youth Clubs operates this scheme on behalf of the Secretary of State and the provisional total of grant issues in 1978–79 was £11,672,000.

Sheltered Employment

Details of grants made to individual voluntary organisations providing sheltered employment could be obtained only at disproportionate cost. The estimated total amount of grants paid direct to voluntary organisations in 1978–79 was £1,176,000. In addition, an estimated total of £1.2 million was paid in revenue grants through local authorities to voluntary organisations providing sheltered employment, mainly for the blind, as agents for the local authorities.

  • The voluntary organisations to which grants were made were:
  • The Royal London Society for the Blind.
  • The Incorporated Association for Promoting the General Welfare of the Blind.
  • The Forces Help Society and Lord Roberts' Workshops.
  • The Royal School for the Blind.
  • The London Association for the Blind.
  • The Wigan, Leigh and District Society for the Blind.
  • Cheadle Royal Industries.
  • The Sir Robert Jones Workshop.

Employment Rehabilitation

Grants towards the capital and running costs of employment rehabilitation centres were made by the MSC in 1978–79 to the following voluntary organisations:
1978–79 budget for running costs £ 1978–79 capital grants £
The Society for the Welfare and Teaching of the Blind 27,600 —
Royal National Institute for the Blind 198,000 10,000
The Spastics Society 171,500 —

Residential Training Grants towards the capital and running costs of centres providing vocational training and resdential accommodation for the disabled were made by the MSC in 1978–79 to the following organisations:

  • The Teesside and District Institute for the Blind.
  • The Spastics Society.
  • The Bristol Royal Workshops for the Blind.
  • Lu Dun Limited.
  • The Chester Blind Welfare Society.
  • The Cornwall Disabled Association.
  • Industrial Therapy Organisation (Bristol) Limited.
  • Papworth and Enham Industries.
  • Barrowmore Industries.
  • St. Loye's College.
  • The Watford Sheltered Workshop.
  • The Campbell Village Trust.
  • The Lindsey Blind Society.
  • The Hull and East Riding Institute for the Blind.
  • The Blackpool and Fylde Society for the Blind.
  • The Institute for Blind Welfare, Preston.
  • The Royal Leicestershire, Rutland and Wycliffe Society for the Blind.
  • The Norwich Institute for the Blind.
  • The Northampton and County Association for the Blind.
  • The Royal British Legion Industries.
  • Portland Training College for the Disabled.
  • Yateley Industries for Disabled Girls Limited.
  • Dorincourt Industries.
  • The Grange Training Centre and Workshop for the Handicapped.
  • Thermega Limited.
  • The Merthyr Tydfil Institution for the Blind.
  • Cambrian Factory Limited.
  • The Cardiff Institute for the Blind.
  • The Northern Counties Institute for the Blind, Inverness.
  • The Royal Aberdeen Workshop for the Blind.
  • The Royal Dundee Institution for the Blind The Scottish Braille Press.
  • Havan Products Limited.
  • The Scottish Council for the Care of Spastics.
  • The Princess Louise Scottish Hospital.
  • The Scottish Epilepsy Association.
  • Hansel Village Limited.
  • The Liverpool Workshop and Birkenhead Society for the Blind, Inc.
  • Oldham Workshop for the Blind.
  • The South Devon and Cornwall Institute for the Blind.
  • Wolverhampton and Dudley Industries for the Blind and Disabled.
  • The Hartlepool Workshop for the Blind. The Linkage Community Trust.

1978–79 budget for running costs £ 1978–79 capital grants £
The Queen Elizabeth Foundation for the Disabled 556,095* 16,740
St. Loyes Training College 560,602* —
Finchale Training College 402,715 6,303
Portland Training College 353,926 —
Royal National Institute for the Blind
Commercial Training College, Pembridge Place, W2 101,538 —
School of Physiotherapy, Great Portland Street, W1 109,390 —
Royal National Institute for the Deaf 134,770 —
* Thesefigures represent expenditure for calendar year 1978.

Employment Services for the Blind A grant of £64,000 towards the Royal National Institute for the Blind's costs of providing certain employment services for the blind was agreed in 1978–9.