HC Deb 11 May 1989 vol 152 c532W
76. Mr. Summerson

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many ethnic minority business initiative projects currently receive Home Office funding; where they are located; what is the extent of that funding; and whether it represents an increase over 1988 funding levels.

Mr John Patten

The Home Office ethnic minority business initiative funds 10 projects. They are located in Birmingham, Bristol, Brent, Brixton, Deptford, Ealing, Finsbury Park, Hackney, Tower Hamlets and Wandsworth. Funding for the 1988–89 financial year totalled £196,252, which represented a 48 per cent. increase on funding for the 1987–8 financial year.

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