§ Mr. McLeishTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will give the total number of crossroad attendant schemes payments and plans available in(a) August 1988, (b) January 1989 and (c) estimated for March 1989 or on similar dates for which information is readily available.
§ Mr. LangComprehensive information on payments to crossroads care attendant schemes is not available. Some crossroads schemes participate in employment training as sub-contractors. Some previously participated in the community programme on the same basis. The Training Agency is not directly involved in funding arrangements between training managers and sub-contractors. However, under the community programme payments totalling £77,615 were made in August 1988 to nine crossroads schemes directly contracted to the Training Agency.
Health boards and local authorities have powers to make grants to voluntary organisations such as crossroads but no records are held centrally of the sums paid by them to individual recipients.