HC Deb 11 July 1980 vol 988 c326W
Mr. Sproat

asked the Secretary of State for Trade if he will list the names of all voluntary bodies to which his Department gave funds in 1979 and in the current year; and how much went to each individual body last year and in the current year.

Mr. Eyre

The bodies which my Department funds directly are shown, with the relevant sums, in the Department's Votes and Appropriation Accounts. It is difficult to identify the voluntary ones because the aptness of this description is a matter of taste rather than fact. While all the bodies financially supported by the Department are voluntary in some sense, the extent to which they conform to most people's notions of "voluntary organisation" varies widely.

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