§ Mr. John Fraserasked the Secretary of State for the Environment what assistance is being provided by his Department for the scheme sponsored by the National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders knows as STAGES.
§ Mr. Peter MorrisonI have been asked to reply.
The STAGES scheme operates as a community project under the Youth Training Scheme and receives assistance towards approved staff salaries, trainees' allowances and 525W other costs. Assistance has also been provided towards building alterations, rent and rates and material costs by the inner city partnership initiative through the local authority.