HC Deb 06 March 1981 vol 1000 cc214-7W
Mr. Gordon Wilson

asked the Secretary of State for Trade if he will list in numbers and percentages the flag registrations of oil supply boats, safety and support vessels, crane barges, pipe-laying barges and drilling-rigs deployed in the Scottish sector of the North Sea.

Mr. Gray

I have been asked to reply.

My Department's best current estimates of the position on the United Kingdom Continental Shelf is:

listed below. Details for the other years have been given in previous parliamentary answers, and I am writing to the hon. Member.

Grant Applications agreed by the Voluntary Services Unit 1977–78
£
Action Resource Centre 13,000
Advisory Committee for the Education of Romany and other travellers 5,500
After Six Housing Advisory Trust 14,000
Albany Trust 13,500
AVEC - A service agency for church and community work 3,000

£
British Association of Settlements 19,300
British Council for Aid to Refugees 189,500
British Council of Churches 11,400
Brixton Neighbourhood Community Association 43,590
Child Poverty Action Group 13,500
Community Projects Foundation 371,000
Community Service Volunteers 297,211
Community Transport 27,500
Fair Play for Children 26,000
Family Day Centre Projects:
1. Aide-a-toute detresse 26,858
2. Cambridge House and Talbot 16,524
3. Camden Family Service Unit 6,250
4. Defoe Day Care Centre 24,500
5. Gingerbread (Croydon) 9,000
6. Institute of Community Studies 8,297
7. Liverpool Personal Service Society 5,180
8. London Voluntary Service Council 19,760
Family First Trust 5,000
Festival Welfare Services 2,770
Gamblers Anonymous 125
Gingerbread 30,000
Girls Alone in London 10,000
Govan Area Resource Centre 35,000
Greater Manchester Council for Voluntary Services (Development Officer) 7,000
Handicapped Adventure Playground Association 7,000
International Voluntary Service 16,033
London Voluntary Service Council - Community Work Services 32,575
Melting Pot Foundation 16,000
Merseyside Council for Voluntary Service (Development Officer) 7,000
National Association for Asian Youth 19,000
National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders - Hammersmith Project 45,000
National Association of Community Relations Councils 10,500
National Association of Widows 4,700
National Association of Youth Clubs 39,000
National Council of Social Service - Metropolitan Development Officers 32,750
National Elfrida Rathbone Society 10,000
National Playing Fields Association 48,750
National Youth Bureau:
National Association of Young Peoples Counsellingand Advisory Service 3,500
Young Volunteer Resource Unit 48,200
Newham Community Renewal Programme 24,700
North Kensington Amenity Trust 10,500
Northern Association for Community Care 500
Onward Industries 40,000
Outset 11,550
Pre-Retirement Association 8,000
Princedale Trust (for Release) 33,000
Returned Volunteer Action 7,000
Romany Guild 2,042
Runnymede Trust 14,000
Scoutreach 7,000
SHAC 27,000
South Wales Anti-Poverty Action Committee 44,021
Swindon Viewpoint 1,250
Task Force 32,475
Volunteer Centre 241,000
Wales Playing Fields Association 4,000
Wandsworth Council - Tooting Youth Project 5,000
West End Coordinated Voluntary Services 47,712
Total £2,155,023

Estimated List of Grants which have been agreed for 1980–81
£
Action Resource Centre 20,000
Alone in London Service (formerly GALS) 14,320
Association of Researchers in Voluntary Action and Community Involvement 4,300
AVEC - A service agency for church and community work 8,392
British Association for Counselling 11,000
British Association of Settlements 31,400
British Council of Churches (Community Work Resource Unit) 14,500
Brixton Neighbourhood Community Association 53,158
CETU - Community Development 16,000
Charity Trading Advisory Group 7,500
Community Projects Foundation 630,475
Community Service Volunteers 404,355
Community Transport 25,465
Fair Play for Children 31,000
Family Day Centre Projects:
1. Aide-a-Toute Detresse 55,463
2.Cambridge House and Talbot 27,792
3. Camden Family Service Unit 20,450
4. Defoe Day Care Centre 50,684
5.Gingerbread (Croydon) 14,804
6. Institute of Community Studies 20,922
7. Liverpool Personal Service Society 15,555
8. London Voluntary Service Council 56,074
Federation of Community Work Training Groups 15,023
Festival Welfare Services 12,350
Gamblers Anonymous 625
Gingerbread 10,000
Govan Area Resource Centre 38,629
Greater Manchester Council for Voluntary Service (Development Officer) 10,000
International Voluntary Service 21,800
London Voluntary Service Council — Community Work Unit 76,194
Melting Pot Foundation 5,000
Merseyside Council for Voluntary Service (Development Officer) 10,000
Midland Public Service Announcement Scheme 8,450
Milton Keynes Voluntary Organisation Centre 14,000
National Association for Asian Youth 18,000
National Association of Victims Support Schemes 10,000
National Council for Voluntary Organisations:
Management Services 4,000
Metropolitan Development Officers 17,050
International Council on Social Welfare 7,700
National Playing Fields Association 57,600
National Youth Bureau:
National Association for Young Peoples Counselling and Advisory Service 19,654
Young Volunteer Resource Unit 86,600
Newham Community Renewal Programme 41,018
Northern Association for Community Care 34,580
Onward Industries 45,000
Princedale Trust (for Release) 55,000
Retired Executives Action Clearing House 4,500
Runnymede Trust 3,750
South Wales Anti-Poverty Action Committee 86,700
Stockport Council for Voluntary Service - Volunteer Job Shop 350
Student Community Action Development Unit 3,750
Student Community Action Resource Programme 3,838
Task Force 76,500
Time for God 3,800
United Housing Association Trust 575
Volunteer Centre 430,725
Wales Playing Fields Association 10,800
West End Coordinated Voluntary' Services 83,555
Total £2,860,725

There have been three grants specifically for projects in Scotland and five in Wales*the percentage of the amount of these grants to total grants were 1916–11, 6 per cent.; 1977–78, 6 per cent.; 1978–79, 5 per cent.; 1979–80, 7 per cent.; and in 1980–81, 6 per cent. In addition, many of the grants were to bodies whose work extends to Scotland and Wales. Grants to voluntary bodies in Scotland and Wales are normally the responsibility of my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Scotland and of my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Wales respectively.

* Figures include 2 projects in each country sponsored by Community Projects Foundation.