HC Deb 03 March 1989 vol 148 cc333-7W
Mr. Bermingham

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what percentage of prisoners held on remand in jails in Nottingham, London and Tyneside are from an ethnic minority; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Douglas Hogg

[holding answer 23 February 1989]: The latest readily available information is given in the table. Prisoners remanded in custody by courts in Nottinghamshire are normally received into Leicester and Lincoln prisons together with prisoners from Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Lincolnshire; remand prisoners from Tyne and Wear are normally received into Durham prison and Low Newton remand centre together with those from Cleveland, Cumbria, Northumberland and North Yorkshire.

Mr. Kenneth Baker

My Department makes grants to a wide variety of bodies. In addition to capital grants and loans to voluntary aided schools; grants to non-maintained special schools and establishments for the handicapped; direct grants to nursery schools; grants to city technology colleges; and grants to the Royal College of Art, Cranfield institute of technology and to grant-aided colleges, the following bodies are in receipt of grants in 1988–89;

Youth Service

Grants are paid in support of the headquarters activities of national youth organisations and for youth service provision to the following bodies:

Provision in 1988–89
£
Army Cadet Force Association 4,260
Association of Jewish Youth 25,740
Baptist Union of Great Britain and Ireland 24,900
Bedfordshire Council for Voluntary Youth Services 9,500
Birmingham Young Volunteers 25,960
Boys' Brigade 39,737
Briars Residential Centre 33,446
British Council of Churches 24,000
British Deaf Association 13,200
British Red Cross Society 9,960
British Trust for Conservation Volunteers 29,280
British Youth Council 152,000
Broadless Trust 31,177
Campaigners 15,240
Catholic Youth Services 43,900
Church Army 28,847

£
Church Lads' Brigade and Church Girls' Brigade 9,060
Church of England Board of Education 42,240
Community Trusts 10,000
Council for Education and Training in Youth and Community Work 251,000
Council for Environmental Education 40,880
Covenanters 5,040
Duke of Edinburgh's Award 67,920
Endeavour Training 29,520
Fairbridge Drake Society 27,960
Forest Schools Camps 1,680
Frontier Youth Trust 12,660
Girl Guides Association 99,848
Girls' Brigade 21,060
Girls' Venture Corps 24,120
Greater Manchester Youth Association 20,000
Horse Rangers Association 1,860
Inter-Action 49,780
International Voluntary Service 4,800
Jewish Lads' and Girls' Brigade 5,640
JMB Development Training 6,000
Kielder Adventure Centre 34,843
Leaving Home Project 25,000
Lubavitch Foundation 5,160
Methodist Association of Youth Clubs 114,280
National Association of Boys' Clubs 175,410
National Association of Muslim Youth 20,280
National Association of Young People's Counselling and Advisory Services 48,000
National Council for Voluntary Youth Services 145,000
National Federation of 18+ Groups 33,300
National Federation of Gateway Clubs 39,600
National Federation of Young Farmers' Clubs 84,480
National Organisation for Work with Girls and Young Women 40,460
National PHAB 52,020
National Youth Bureau 552,000
National Youth Choir 2,040
National Youth Orchestra 4,680
National Youth Theatre 42,780
New Treatment Church of God 10,800
Ocean Youth Club 21,990
Outward Bound Trust 220,980
Quaker Home Service 33,860
Rathbone Society 25,560
Reform Synagogues of Great Britain 7,920
Royal Society for the Protection of Birds 4,500
Sail Training Association 5,700
St. John Ambulance Brigade 9,480
Salvation Army 12,960
Scout Association 65,820
Sea Cadet Association 11,640
SPLASH 3,900
Union of Maccabi Associations 26,686
United Kingdom Federation of Jazz Bands 7,080
United Reform Church 61,460
West Central 12,100
Woodcraft Folk 10,740
Young Christian Workers 19,860
Young Men's Christian Association 559,822
Young Men's Association of Wales 28,750
Young Women's Christian Association 90,821
Youth Clubs United Kingdom 255,360
Youth Hostels Association 43,480

Adult Education

Grants are made for the provision of courses for adults by long-term residential colleges, university extra-mural departments and the Workers' Educational Association, and to various national associations for educational services for adults:

Provision in 1988–89
£
Long Term Residential Colleges 11,610,000
University Extra-Mural Departments 16,152,020
Workers' Educational Association 12,801,940
National Associations
Adult Literarcy and Basic Skills Unit 2,466,000
British Chess Federation 37,300
British Theatre Association 14,200
Educational Centres Association 6,300
National Association of Women's Clubs 27,100
National Federation of Community Organisations 25,950
National Federation of Women's Institute 15,600
National Institute of Adult Continuing Education 118,925
National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (REPLAN) 1,159,000
National Union of Townswomen's Guilds 13,940
National Women's Register 5,840
Pre-Retirement Association 73,595
Trades Union Congress 787,028
Unit for the Development of Adult Continuing Education 289,000
University of the Third Age 2,400
Workers' Educational Association (National Office) 56,705
Workers' Educational Association (In-Service Training) 54,850
1Academic year.

Other bodies

Grants are paid in respect of specified services for the following bodies:

Provision in 1988–89
£
Bristol Exploratory 5,000
British Academy 5,578,000
British Association for Early Childhood Education 9,410
British Association for the Advancement of Science: Young Investigators 30,000
British Association for Teachers of the Handicapped 24,000
British Association for the Education and Welfare of the Visual Handicapped 5,000
British Association for Irish Studies 5,400
British Physics Olympiad 5,000
British Universities Film and Video Council Ltd. 150,000
Careers Research Advisory Centre 15,760
Central Bureau for Educational Visits and Exchanges 1,941,430
Centre for Information on Language Teaching and Research 395,000
City Technology Colleges Trust 90,000
Christian Education Movement 35,000
Community Service Volunteers School Advisory Service 50,792
Conference for Higher Education, Art and Design (Germinations Art Exhibition) 5,000
Council for Education in World Citizenship 38,000
Council for Pre-Vocational Education 110,500
Craft, Design and Technology: Wolff Olins Design Dimension 25,000
Educational Counselling and Credit Transfer Information Service 789,860
Educational Disadvantage Projects:
National Out of Schools Alliance 10,000
National Council for Mother Tongue Teaching 10,000
Refugee Education and Training Advisory Service 11,900
Commission for Racial Equality 18,712
Project Fullemploy—Windsor Fellowship Scheme 2,000
Commonwealth Institute Artists and Craftspeople in Education Project 720
Industrial Society 15,000
European Schools 2,443,000
European School Culham 462,000
European University Institute 1,182,000

£
Family Welfare Association: Educational Grant Advisory Service 20,000
Fun Promotions: Alcohol and Drug Education 10,000
Further Education Unit 3,354,000
Industry Matters 4,000
International Baccalaureate Office 16,490
International Musician Seminar (Music Master Class) 4,000
Joint United States-United Kingdom Educational Commission 300,000
League for the Exchange of Commonwealth Teachers 472,470
Leicester University Centre for Teaching and Development in Social and Moral Education 4,500
National Academic Recognition Centre 10,903
National Association for Gifted Children 20,000
National Association of Governors and Managers 20,000
National Bureau for Handicapped Students 32,000
National Children's Bureau 39,000
National Choral Competition: Music for Youth 51,271
National Committee for Mathematical Contests 5,000
National Congress for Language in Education 1,000
National Council for Educational Technology 4,554,000
National Council for Vocational Qualifications 1,500,000
National Foundation for Educational Research 15,000
National Sub-titling for the Deaf 16,000
Pre-School Playgroup Association 153,000
Polytechnics Central Admissions System 31,745
Primary Education Study Group 1,000
Professional, Industrial and Commercial Updating Programme (PICKUP) 1,610,000
Project Trident 20,500
Radio One: Alcohol and Drug Education 10,000
School Curriculum Awards 10,000
School/Industry Understanding:
Understanding Industry 17,500
Royal Society of Arts Industry Matters Initiative 20,000
Schools Curriculum Industry Partnership 28,250
Standing Conference on Education for International Understanding 6,000
Standing Conference on Schools Science and Technology 43,000
Teaching as a Career Unit 375,000
UK-EEC Education Information Centre 50,000
United Kingdom Centre for European Education 18,500
United Kingdom Council for Overseas Student Affairs 110,000
Voluntary Sector Consultative Council 119,276
World Organisation for Early Childhood Education 1,000