§ Mr. Deakinsasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what allocations have been made through the joint funding scheme for 1982–83; which voluntary organisations have been allocated grants and for what purposes; and which voluntary organisations have been allocated grants under joint funding for population and family planning programmes.
§ Mr. Neil MartenThe sum of £2,270,000 has been allocated for joint funding purposes in 1982–83. This is made up as follows:
£ OXFAM 1,200,000 Christian Aid 310,000 Catholic Fund for Overseas Development (CAFOD) 100,000 Save the Children Fund 310,000 Other Agencies 350,000 The grants to OXFAM, Christian Aid, CAFOD and SCF are allocations to be spent on agreed development projects put forward for support in the course of the year.
Grants so far allocated to other agencies are as follows:
£ Action Aid Provision of school furniture—Gambia 12,495 School building project—Gambia 30,757 Well digging—Gambia 36,422 Amazon Trust Health project—Peru 48,000 British Red Cross Society Polyclinic—Algeria 25,000 Dominica Overseas Nationals Association Hospital Laundry-Dominica 8,000 Friends of Peru Community Health Centre—Peru 7,100 Population Services Family Planning—Philippines 44,528 International MCH/FP Information and Education—Haiti 8,728 Ayurvedic practitioners FP programme—Sri Lanka 42,817 Royal Commonwealth Society for the Blind Opthalmic Institute and Training Complex—Bangladesh 25,000 RURCON International Rural Development Seminar—Sierra Leone 7,000 Tear Fund Land Settlement Programme—Paraguay 16,573 Population programmes are being funded through Population Services International, as described above. fn addition, a payment of £12,823 has been made from the 1982–83 allocation for CAFOD in support of a family 275W planning workship in Mauritius and we expect to make contributions, through OXFAM, for family planning projects in Bangladesh (£1,256) and Pakistan (£3,175).