§ Mr. PendryTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is the total amount of funding made available to the Football Licensing Authority to date; what is his best estimate of the resources required by the Football Licensing Authority over the coming year; and what level of funding he will make available to the Football Licensing Authority for the next year.
§ Mr. John PattenThe approved provision for the Football Licensing Authority for the current financial year is £670,000. We have been advised by the authority that its actual expenditure in the period to the end of March 1991 is unlikely to exceed £270,000. Provision has been made in the public expenditure survey for the 1991–92 financial year for grant in aid to the authority of a maximum of £898,000. This represents an increase of £208,000 on the PES provision originally approved for 1991–92, before the role of the authority was reviewed in the light of Lord Justice Taylor's final report on the Hillsborough stadium disaster.
§ Mr. PendryTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he has any plans to increase funding for the Football Licensing Authority for fulfilling its functions under section 13 of the Football Spectators Act; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. John PattenNo. Neither we nor the Football Licensing Authority have any reason to believe that the funding provision already made for the Football Licensing Authority will be inadequate to enable it properly to discharge all its statutory functions, including those under section 13 of the Football Spectators Act 1989, when that section of the Act is brought into force.