§ Mr. Tony Banksasked the Secretary of State for the Environment in respect of grants given by the voluntary services unit of his Departments, if he will list (i) the unit's current organisational structure, complement of posts, staff in post and grading of posts of staff employed on assessing, monitoring and advising on these grants, (ii) the value of grants approved for 1985–86 and (iii) details of the name, address, type and purpose of the organisation and the amount granted, for each grant made in the financial year 1984–85.
§ Mr. Kenneth BakerMy Department does not have a voluntary services unit. Staff administering direct grants to voluntary organisations work in a number of policy directorates and their work is usually combined with other responsibilities. All grant awards for 1985–86 have not yet been decided. In 1984–85 the Department awarded direct grants to voluntary bodies, excluding housing associa-tions, under the following programmes.
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Organisation Amount(£) 1. Special grants programme 1984–85 Advisory Committee on the Education of Romany and other Travellers 11,460 Advisory Committee on Pollution of the Sea 2,500 Association of Community Technical Aid Centres 12,000 British Association of Social Settlements and Action Centres: Innovatory Urban Projects Booklet 9,200 British Trust for Conservation Volunteers 100,000 Byways and Bridleways Trust 4,000 Cathedral Camps 10,000 Centre for Social Enterprise 15,000 Child Accident Prevention Trust: Child Accidents and the Built Environment 4,650 Civic Trust: Urban Initiative Project 19,000 Community Links 5,500 Community Regeneration 18,118 Community Service Volunteers: Watts Labor Community Action Committtee 20,000 Conservation Foundation 25,000 Conservation Trust 8,250 Council for Environmental Conservation 32,600 Council for Environmental Education&—Youth Unit 4,000 Council for National Parks 7,620 Directory of Social Change 9,850 East Anglian Gypsy Council 936 Ecological Parks Trust 14,200 European Centre for Urban Regeneration: Urban Regeneration Directory 10,000 Federation of Resource Centres 600 Friends of the Earth Trust 15 000
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Organisation Amount (£) Free Form Arts Trust 20,000 Gingerbread: Housing Officer 9,270 Help the Aged and Shelter: Care and Repair 14,000 Horticultural Therapy: Garden Advisory Project 15,475 Inter-Action: i. Country Wings 20,810 ii. Neighbourhood use of Buildings and Space 21,410 International Waterfowl Research Bureau 2,000 Kennet and Avon Canal Trust 5,000 Law Centres Federation: Inner City Development Officer 18,000 Macclesfield Groundwork Trust: Voluntary Sector Data Base Project 5,100 NACRO: Neighbourhood Remedial Action Project 32,500 National Association for Environmental Education 7,500 National Advisory Unit for Community Transport 17,523 National Council for Voluntary Organisations: i. Ethnic Minorities: Training Unit 30,782 ii. Neighbourhood Energy Action Urban Initiatives Project 5,150 iii. Secondment to BIC 15,233 iv. Urban Unit 56,280 National Federation of City Farms 12,800 National Gypsy Council 13,330 New World Business Services: Ethnic Minority Training Project 2,500 North East Civic Trust 7,000 Northern Region TCP A: Community Technical Aid Centre 32,573 North West Civic Trust 24,500 North West Civic Trust—Vacant Buildings Information Service 16,462 North West Pollution Control Advisory Service (Campus) 10,000 Open Spaces Society 4,500 Pennine Heritage 23,000 Planning Aid Unit (TCPA) 15,000 Policy Studies Institute: Local Authorities Race Relations Information Exchange 10,000 RIBA: Architectural Workshops 23,000 RIBA: Community Projects 46,000 Romany Guild 6,990 Royal Society for Nature Conservation 41,135 Royal Society for the Protection of Birds: Urban Schools Officers 7,950 Rural Preservation Association 11,536 Shelter National Housing Aid Trust: Mobile Homes Unit 6,250 Somerset Small Industries Group 8,000 Sports Aid Trust: i. Employment of Book-keeper 4,500 ii. Employment of a Fund Raiser 8,000 Streetwork: Council for Urban Studies Centres 14,185 Town & Country Planning Association: i. Conway Project (Birkenhead) 12,033 ii. Lightmoor Project (Telford) 8,500 iii. Management Grant 25,000 Tree Council 13,000 UK Sports Association for People with Mental Handicap 19,750 URBED: Re-use of Industrial Buildings Service 26,250 Volunteer Centre: i.Inner City Volunteer Bureaux 11,775 ii. Printing of Conference Report 800 Wildfowl Trust 2,600 Wildlife Link 8,000 William Temple Foundation 8,500 World Wildlife Fund: Youth Education Work 18,000 Young Peoples Trust for Endangered Species 21,900 2.Housing (Homeless Persons) Act 1977 SHAC—The London Housing Aid Centre 124,000 Shelter National Housing Aid Trust 44,984 Housing Advice Switchboard 49,500 CHAR&—Campaign for the Single Homeless 28,000 National Association of Voluntary Hostels 19,000 National Cyrenians 26,000
Organisation Amount (£) National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders 11,420 First Key 12,000 UJIMA Housing Association 1,280 Empty Property Unit 15,500 Tyneside Housing Aid Centre 12,300 Keep Britain tidy group 510,000 Council for Environmental Education 42,000 Amenity Societies and the civic trust Civic Trust 55,000 Council for British Archaeology 3,250 Ancient Monuments Society 6,500 The Georgian Group 6,500 The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings 6,500 The Victorian Society 6,500
§ Mr. Tony Banksasked the Secretary of State for the Environment, in respect of the traditional urban aid programme and the inner city partnership schemes, if he will list (i) his Department's current organisational structure, complement of posts, staff in post and grading of posts of staff employed on assessing, monitoring and advising on these grants, (ii) the value of grants approved for 1984–85 and (iii) details of the name, address, type and purpose of the organisation and the amount granted for each grant made in the financial year 1984–85.
§ Mr. Kenneth BakerThe structure and staffing of inner cities division 2 and the urban policy sections of the Department's regional offices which deal with these matters were published in the management information system for Ministers 5 (MINIS 5). A copy was placed in the Library of the House. Since then the detailed administration of the traditional urban programme has passed to the regional offices. The latest estimate of outturn for expenditure in 1984–85 by partnerships is £128 million, and £46.5 million for the traditional urban programme. Specific grant is paid on all expenditure at the rate of 75 per cent. Several thousand projects receive support and the details are not readily available in the form requested.