§ Mr. Pawseyasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list all grants made by his Department to voluntary organisations, giving both the recipient and the amount, together with the date a grant was first made.
§ Mr. Patrick JenkinGrants in 1984–85 to voluntary bodies, other than housing associations and excluding grants made by statutory bodies associated with the Department, are as follows:
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Grants to voluntary organisations—1984–85 £ Year grant first awarded 1. Amenity Societies and the Civic Trust Civic Trust 55,000 1975–76 Council for British Archaeology 3,250 1973–74 Ancient Monuments Society 6,500 1973–74 The Georgian Group 6,500 1973–74 The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings 6,500 1973–74 The Victorian Society 6,500 1973–74 2. Keep Britain Tidy Group 510,000 1958–59 3. Special Grants Programme Advisory Committee on the Education of Romany and other Travellers 11,460 1979–80 Advisory Committee on Pollution of the Sea 2,500 1983–84 Association of Community Technical Aid Centres 12,000 1984–85 British Association of Social Settlements and Action Centres: Innovatory Urban Projects Booklet 9,200 1984–85 British Trust for Conservation Volunteers 100,000 1983–84 Byways and Bridleways Trust 4,000 1984–85 Cathedral Camps 10,000 1982–83 Centre for Social Enterprise 15,000 1984–85 Child Accident Prevention Trust: Child Accidents and the Built Environment 4,650 1984–85 Civic Trust: Urban Initiatives Project 10,000 1984–85 Community Links 5,500 1984–85 Community Regeneration 18,118 1984–85 Conservation Foundation 25,000 1984–85 Conservation Trust 8,250 1984–85 Council for Environmental Conservation 27,600 1984–85
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£ Year grant first awarded Council for National Parks 7,620 1984–85 Directory of Social Change 9,850 1983–84 East Anglian Gypsy Council 936 1978–79 Ecological Parks Trust 14,200 1984–85 European Centre for Urban Regeneration: Urban Regeneration Directory 10,000 1984–85 Federation of Resource Centres 600 1984–85 Friends of the Earth Trust 15,000 1982–83 Gingerbread: Housing Officer 9,270 1984–85 Help the Aged & Shelter: Care & Repair 14,000 1984–85 Horticultural Therapy: Garden Advisory Project 15,475 1984–85 Inter-Action: (i) Country Wings 20,810 1982–83 (ii) Neighbourhood Use of Buildings and Space 21,410 1982–83 International Waterfowl Research Bureau 2,000 1982–83 Kennet & Avon Canal Trust 5,000 1984–85 Law Centres Federation: Inner City Development Officer 18,000 1984–85 Macclesfield Groundwork Trust: Voluntary Sector Data Base Project 5,100 1984–85 NACRO: Neighbourhood Remedial Action Project 32,500 1984–85 National Association for Environmental Education 7,500 1984–85 National Association for Community Transport 17,523 1984–85 National Council for Voluntary Organisations: (i) Ethnic Minorities: Training Unit 30,782 1984–85 (ii) Neighbourhood Energy Action Urban Initiatives Project 5,150 1984–85 (iii) Secondment to BIC 15,233 1983–84 (iv) Urban Unit 56,280 1984–85 National Federation of City Farms 12,800 1983–84 National Gypsy Council 13,330 1974–75 New World Business Services: Ethnic Minority Training Project 2,500 1984–85 North East Civic Trust 7,000 1984–85 Northern Region TCPA Community Technical Aid Centre 24,573 1982–83 North West Civic Trust 24,500 1984–85 North West Civic Trust—Vacant Buildings Information Service 16,462 1983–84 North West Pollution Control Advisory Service (Campus) 10,000 1984–85 Open Spaces Society 4,500 1984–85 Pennine Heritage 23,000 1984–85 Planning Aid Unit (TCPA) 15,000 1975–76 Policy Studies Institute: Local Authorities Race Relations Information Exchange 10,000 1984–85 RIBA: Architectural Workshops 23,000 1982–83 RIBA: Community Projects 36,000 1982–83 Romany Guild 6,990 1978–79 Royal Society for Nature Conservation 41,135 1984–85 Royal Society for the Protection of Birds: Urban Schools Officers 7,950 1981–82 Rural Preservation Association 11,536 1984–85 Shelter National Housing Aid Trust: Mobile Homes Unit 6,250 1984–85 Somerset Small Industries Group 8,000 1982–83 Sports Aid Trust 4,500 1984–85 Streetwork: Council for Urban Studies Centres 14,185 1984–85 Town & Country Planning Association: (i) Conway Project (Birkenhead) 12,033 1984–85 (ii) Lightmoor Project (Telford) 8,500 1984–85 (iii) Management Grant 25,000 1984–85 Tree Council 13,000 1982–83 UK Sports Association for People with Mental Handicap 19,750 1984–85 URBED: Re-use of Industrial Buildings Service 26,250 1982–83
£ Year grant first awarded Volunteer Centre: (i) Inner City Volunteer Bureaux 11,775 1982–83 (ii) Printing of Conference Report 800 1984–85 Wildfowl Trust 2,600 1984–85 Wildlife Link 8,000 1983–84 World Wildlife Fund: Youth Education Work 18,000 1984–85 Young Peoples Trust for Endangered Species 21,900 1984–85 4. Council for Environmental Education 42,000 1976–77 5. Housing (Homeless Persons) Act 1977 SHAC (The London Housing Aid Centre) 124,000 1978 Shelter National Housing Aid Trust 48,800 1978 Housing Advice Switchboard 49,500 1978 CHAR 28,000 1979 NACRO 11,420 1979 Women's Aid Federation (England) 9,700 1981 National Cyrenians 26,000 1982 Empty Property Unit 9,500 1984 Tyneside Housing Aid Centre *12,300 1984 First Key *6,000 1984 UJIMA *2,200 1984 6. Urban Programme The contribution from central Government to voluntary bodies under the urban programme is estimated at approximately £51 million in 1984–85; this includes contributions from the Department of Health and Social Security and the Department of Education and Science. * Provisional.
§ Mr. Tony Banksasked the Secretary of State for the Environment which London local authorities would gain and which would lose from his proposals that the collective funding of voluntary bodies should be met by contributions based on population rather than rateable value; and what would be the percentage change in the contribution for each authority.
§ Mr. WaldegraveI shall answer this question shortly.