HC Deb 19 February 1991 vol 186 cc129-30W
Mr. Tom Clarke

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will make a statement on the funding over the next three years of DTI grant in aid to the National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux and Citizens Advice Scotland.

Mr. Leigh

[holding answer 11 February 1991]: Details of the DTI grant in aid to NACAB and CAS for the next three years are not available. Expenditure plans for 1991–92 will be published next month in the supply estimates.

Mr. Tom Clarke

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry when he last met representatives of the National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux to discuss Department of Trade and Industry grant in aid.

Mr. Leigh

[holding answer 11 February 1991]: Ministers from my Department meet NACAB from time to time to discuss matters of mutual concern, including funding. The last such meeting was on 11 October when the then Minister for Consumer Affairs, Lord Hesketh, met the chairman and some of the members of the NACAB council.