§ Mr. Heddleasked the Secretary of State for the Environment how much money has been paid by local authorities by way of standard and discretionary grants for each year since 1974 to the latest available date.
§ Sir George YoungThe amounts of housing conversion and improvement, intermediate and special, and repairs grants paid by English local authorities to private owners and tenants in 1981 to 1983 and provisional figures for the first two quarters of 1984, appear in the table 2.14 of "Housing and Construction Statistics, Part 2" No. 18: figures for the earlier years are in table 7.1 of "Housing and Construction Statistics 1973–83". Copies of both publications are available in the Library. Standard grants for the provision of missing amenities were replaced by intermediate grants under the 1974 Housing Act and payments of standard grants ceased in 1977.
204WIn addition, the fund has offered a further £879,000 to the National Trust for Scotland for the endowment of Fyvie castle in 1985–86 and 1986–87 and has committed in principle a sum of £4.48 million for the endowment of Calke abbey.
§ Mr. Andrew F. Bennettasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list as a percentage of the total funds spent or committed by the National Heritage Memorial Fund in each year since 1980 and the amounts spent on the following subjects (a) historic buildings and houses, (b) painting or art objects, (c) books, archives and libraries, (d) industrial archaeology, (e) scenic land and (f) scientific land, sites of special scientific interest and nature reserves.
§ Mr. MacfarlaneThe information requested is as follows. Further details are published in the annual reports of the NHMF, which are available in the Library.