§ Mr. Peter Bottomleyasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will list all non-statutory bodies to which his Department has made grants for 1981–82 and 1982–83 showing the name of the organisation, the amount of grant and the powers under which the grant is made; and if he will give similar information for grant-aid by other statutory bodies for which his Department is responsible.
§ Mr. NewtonI understand that my hon. Friend is interested in grants to voluntary organisations. For information relating to grants by the Department to voluntary organisations in 1982/83, I refer to my reply to my hon. Friend the Member for Exeter (Mr. Hannam) on 9 December. [Vol. 33, c.588–93]. Comparable information for 1981–82 is as follows:—
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Grants for 1981–82 under S64 of the Health Services and Public Health Act 1968—General Scheme (sub-head) IT 2(1) £ Action on Smoking and Health 90,012 Advocacy Alliance 4,000 Age Concern 286,000 Alcohol Education Centre 65,814 Alcoholic Hostels 300,179 Alcoholic Recovery Project 4,000 Alcoholism Community Centres for Education Prevention and Treatment 38,225 Alzheimer's Disease Society 2,250 Aquarius Resource Centre 10,500 Apex Trust 24,343 Association Aide a Toute Detresse 24,400 Association for all Speech Impaired Children 10,000 Association for Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus 30,000 Association of Breast feeding Mothers 1,500 Association of Residential Communities 8,000 Asthma Society 2,000 Back Pain Association 17,000 Bethnal Green Intermediate Education Centre 32,000 Birmingham Settlement 7,000 Blenheim Street Agency 7,600 Bobath Centre 32,000 Breakthrough Trust 75,000 Bristol Council for Voluntary Service 800 British Asociation for Adoption and Fostering 246,000 British Association for Counselling 1,200 British Association of the Hard of Hearing 18,600 British Association of Immediate Care 20,000 British Deaf Association 20,000 British Diabetic Association 1,500 British Epilepsy Association 22,000 British Institute of Mental Handicap 24,500 British Red Cross-Cosmetic Camouflage 1,260 British Retinitis Pigmentosa Society 4,500 Brook Advisory Centres 30,000 Calibre 7,000 Campaign for Single Homeless People 22,000 Campaign for the Mentally Handicapped 14,000 Care 12,500 Catholic Marriage Advisory Council 23,000 Centre for Policy on Ageing 44,800 Centre on Environmental for the Handicapped 19,500 Chest Heart and Stroke Association 5,000 Child Accident Prevention Trust 29,040 Child Poverty Action Group 900 Children's Legal Centre 10,500 Church of England Childrens Society 35,000 City Roads Crisis Intervention 66,500 Clock Tower Association 10,500 Coeliac Society 10,000
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£ Coke Hole Trust 8,000 Combat Huntington's Chorea 15,000 Community Drugs Project 5,300 Community Service Volunteers 47,396 Contact 22,400 Contact a Family 3,000 Cope 78,950 Coronary Prevention Group 3,000 Council for the Advancement of Communication with Deaf People 10,000 Coventry Day Centre 5,000 Cranstoun Hostel 9,750 Crossroads Care Attendant Schemes Ltd. 25,000 Cruse 56,000 Cyrenians 66,400 Disability Alliance 5,000 Disabled Drivers Association 3,500 Disabled Living Foundation 242,000 Disablement Income Group 11,000 Downs Children's Association 4,500 Dr. Barnardo's 65,000 Elizabeth Fitzroy Trust 12,500 Employment Fellowship 38,000 European Dialysis and Transplant Association 10,000 Family Forum 22,749 Family Holiday Association 2,500 Family Planning Association 124,500 Family Rights Group 5,000 Family Service Units 128,000 Family Tree 8,750 Family Welfare Association 112,680 Federation of Alcoholic Rehabilitation Establishments 77,400 Fire Precautions (in voluntary residential homes) 138,428 Fluoridation Society 14,000 Gingerbread 48,000 Hampshire Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders 5,000 Handcrafts Advisory Association for the Disabled 9,300 Handicapped Adventure Playground Association 6,500 Headway Association 5,000 Holiday Care Service 5,000 Home Farm Trust 12,500 Home Start Consultancy 14,000 Horticultural Therapy 5,000 Hungerford Day Centre for Drug Addicts 12,700 Ileostomy Association of Great Britain 2,250 Institute for the Study of Drug Dependence 115,710 International Hospital Federation 35,000 International Social Service 27,500 International Voluntary Service 20,831 Invalid Children's Aid Association 44,000 Invalids At Home Trust 2,200 Joint Committee on Mobility for the Disabled 600 Kent Council on Alcoholism 900 L'Arche Ltd. 22,500 La Leche League of Great Britain 375 Leicester Council for Voluntary Service 14,000 Leonard Cheshire Foundation 20,000 Liverpool Alcoholism Services 18,000 London Voluntary Service Council 11,750 London Youth Advisory Council 4,400 Makaton Vocabulary Development Project 2,000 Mastectomy Association 6,000 Maternity Alliance 10,000 Medical Council on Alcoholism 64,600 Mencap 209,750 Mental After Care Association 50,000 Mental Health Film Council 3,200 Motability 300,060 Motor Neurone Disease Association 3,000 Muscular Dystrophy Group 20,000 National Ankylosing Spondylitis Society 2,500 National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders 92,310 National Association for the Childless 13,000 National Association for the Deaf/Blind, Rubella Handicapped 5,000
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£ National Association for Maternal and Child Welfare 5,000 National Association for Mental Health 400,000 National Association for Patient Participation in General Practice 2,000 National Association for the Welfare of Children in Hospital 45,000 National Association of Leagues of Hospital Friends 11,750 National Association of Victims Support Schemes 7,350 National Association of Voluntary Hostels 4,100 National Association of Youth Clubs 33,467 National Childbirth Trust 15,000 National Childminding Association 25,000 National Children's Bureau 156,745 National Children's Home 7,500 National Council for One Parent Families 110,000 National Council for the Single Woman and Her Dependants 8,000 National Council of Voluntary Child Care Organisations 20,417 National Council for Voluntary Organisations 178,167 National Council on Alcoholism 252,000 National Eczema Society 9,250 National Elfrida Rathbone Society 11,000 National Federation of Kidney Patients 2,134 National Federation of the Blind of the United Kingdom 1,000 National Foster Care Association 63,450 National Library for the Blind 9,500 National Listening Library 16,000 National Marriage Guidance Council 20,000 National Playbus Association 14,500 National Schizophrenia Fellowship 76,000 National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children 225,000 National Tape Magazine for the Blind 400 National Youth Bureau 52,000 Network for the Handicapped 1,000 Norfolk Childrens Projects 30,000 Norfolk Council on Alcoholism 25,000 Northern Regional Association for the Blind 38,478 One-to-One 9,000 Opus 4,500 Outset 14,250 Overseas Doctors Association 7,000 Parent to Parent Information on Adoption Services 2,250 Parents for Children 34,000 Partially Sighted Society 12,000 Peter Bedford Project 5,800 Physically Handicapped and Able Bodied 35,000 Plymouth Night Shelter 15,650 Possum Users Association 14,750 Pre-School Playgroups Association 300,000 Queen Elizabeth's Foundation for the Disabled 10,000 Rainer Foundation 65,375 Rape Counselling and Research Project 10,000 Richmond Fellowship 70,000 Royal Association for Disability and Rehabilitation 270,000 Royal National Institute for the Blind 355,000 Royal National Institute for the Deaf 14,000 Royal School for the Blind 114,000 Salvation Army 2,573 Samaritans 80,000 Save the Children Fund 269,625 Sexual and Personal Relationships of the Disabled 30,000 Shaftesbury Homes and Arethusa Sailing Barge 25,000 Shape 5,750 Sheffield Family Service Units 14,000 Short Stay Young Homeless Limited 3,000 Social Work Training Grants 65,375 Society of St.Dismas 6,980 Southern and Western Regional Association for the Blind 53,312 Spastics Society 141,738 Spinal Injuries Association 15,000 Standing Conference on Drug Abuse 53,800 St. Albans Diocesan Council for Social Responsibility 14,725
£ St. John Ambulance 36,000 Stonham Housing Association 10,000 Sue Ryder Foundation 2,000 Talking Newspapers Association of the United Kingdom 750 The Patients Association 5,000 Toy Libraries Association 41,000 Turning Point 68,000 Venture 12 Project 19,992 Voluntary Council for Handicapped Children 22,000 Voluntary Organisations Liaison Committee for Under Fives 5,400 Volunteer Centre 13,660 Westminster Pastoral Foundation 60,000 Widows Advisory Trust 11,000 Winged Fellowship Trust 6,300 Womens Aid Federation (England) 96,000 Womens Health Concern 3,000 Womens National Cancer Control Campaign 67,900 Miscellaneous 25,930 8,882,155
Grants paid to registered voluntary children's homes (subhead H1(1)(a)) Voluntary Organisation £ Talbot House Management Committee 40,000.00 Royal Caledonian Schools 20,000.00O Ockenden Venture 15,800.00 Total 75,800.00
Grants paid to assisted community homes (Subhead H1(1)(b)) Voluntary Organisation £ Bamardo's 383,950.49 The Salvation Army 222,043.80 The Children's Society 73,092.63 Catholic Child Welfare Society (Diocese of Middlesbrough) 53,619.17 Birmingham Diocesan Rescue Society (Father Hudson's Homes) 39,864.60 The St. Albans Diocesan Council for Social Work 14,000.00 The Hexham and Newcastle Diocesan Rescue Society 6,260.00 Total 792,830.69
Grants for Social Work Training (Sub Head H5) 1981–82 £ National Institute for Social Work 195,250 National Children's Home 7,750* VORTEX 7,889 Family Planning Association 7,183 Volunteer Centre 1,609 Total 219,681 Note: Amount paid in 1981–82. A further £23,259 initially approved for 1981–82 was paid in 1982–83.
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Grants to voluntary organisations under Schedule Five of the Supplementary Benefits Act 1976 (as amended) (sub-head B3 (552)) Voluntary Organisations Amount Approved 1981/82 £ 1. Aberdeen Cyrenians 3,900 2. Birmingham, Committee for Night Shelter 6,100 3. Birmingham, St Anne's 5,000 4. Birmingham, St Basil's 6,000 5. Brighton, YMCA 4,400
Voluntary Organisations Amount Approved 1981/82 £ 6. Cambridge Cyrenians 1,100 7. Cardiff Cyrenians 3,300 8. Coventry Cyrenians 4,400 9. Edinburgh, People's Palace 5,500 10. Exeter Shilhay 4,400 11. Glasgow, Kirkhaven 2,800 12. Guildford Cyrenians 2,200 13. Leeds Cyrenians 1,100 14. Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral Crypt 3,300 15. London, Bondway 12,100 16. London, Centrepoint 7,700 17. London, Theatre Girls' Club 7,700 18. Lowestoft Night Shelter 3,300 19. Manchester Night Shelter 7,700 20. Norwich Night Shelter 5,500 21. Nottingham, Help the Homeless 3,600 22. Oxford Cyrenians 6,600 23. Plymouth Night Shelter 3,300 24. Portsmouth, Harbour Community 1,500 25. Portsmouth, St Petroc's Community Trust 3,900 26. Preston, Homeless in 3,300 27. Sheffield, Joint Standing Committee 5,500 8. Stockton Churches Mission to the Single Homeless 4,400 29. Stoke, Potteries Housing Association 3,900 30. Swansea, SASH 3,900 31. Swindon Cyrenians 2,800 32. Taunton Association for the Homeless 4,400 33. Tyneside Cyrenians 4,400 34. Wolverhampton overnight Shelter Group 4,800 35. Worcester, St Paul's 3,300
£ Grant to the Kings Fund Centre year ending 31 December 1981 (sub-head K2(2)) 268,000 Intermediate Treatment Fund: grant in aid (sub-head K5) 307,000 The Department also provided £2,949,000 for the year ending 31 December 1981 to help families with very severely disabled children (sub-head K3). This is disbursed through the family fund, which is administered by the Joseph Rowntree Memorial Trust.
The Health Education Council (sub-head E5) gave grants to voluntary organisations totalling £43,358 in 1981–82. For details, and for information about grants in 1982–83 I refer the hon. Member to the council.
The powers relating to the sub-heads indicated are as follows:
Power Sub-heads Section 64 of the Health Services and Public Health H1(a) Act 1968 K2(1) K2(2) K5 K9* Section 63 of the Health Services and Public Health Act 1968 H5 Section 82 of the Child Care Act 1980 H1(b) Schedule 5 of the Supplementary Benefits Act 1976 (as amended) B(3)552 Annual Appropriation Acts K3 E5 * New sub-head in 1982–83. Health authorities have powers under section 64 of the Health Services and Public Health Act 1968 to make grants to voluntary organisations. Information about their use of these powers is not collected centrally.