HC Deb 16 February 1988 vol 127 cc590-1W
Mr. Jim Marshall

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will list the grants made by the health and social services boards, the education and library boards, the probation board, the Arts Council, the Police Authority, the Tourist Board and district councils to voluntary organisations in each of the last two years, with the amount in each case and the name and address of the recipient organisations.

Mr. Stanley

Except as stated, the information requested is not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost. The Police Authority does not pay grants to voluntary bodies. Those paid by the probation board are as follows:

Voluntary Body Grant paid 1986–87 Grant paid 1985–86
Extern Organisation 204,814 247,349
Save the Children Fund, Northern Ireland 176,962 158,726
NI Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders 166,105 173,159
Presbyterian Church in Ireland 56,304 58,357
Dismas House Hostel 21,958 21,154
Ulster Quakers Service Committee 20,151 12,070
Suffolk Adventure Group 20,000
Lower Falls 'New Start' 20,000
Laganvalley Auto Project 20,000
Newtownabbey Auto Project 15,000 5,000
Belfast Rape Crisis Centre 11,440 11,000
Twinbrook Tenants/Community Association 10,400 2,270
NI Victim Support Scheme 5,778
Citizens Advice Bureau 3,780 1,500
Inter Agency 3,475 3,367
Prison Fellowship 3,000
Edward Street Hostel 3,000 3,000
Joe Lindsay Memorial Group 3,000 3,261
Westrock/Whiterock Community Group 3,000
Cookstown Hostel (MUST) 3,000
Simon Community 3,000
Dunmurry Christian Community 1,100
Irish German Exhange Trip 1,000
Clonard Parent/Youth Support Group 1,000
Oliver Plunkett Education and Leisure Services 2,500
Horn Drive Parent Youth Group 1,500
Belfast Voluntary Welfare Society 1,250
Farset City Farm 1,000
Total 777,267 706,463