HC Deb 14 March 1991 vol 187 cc651-2W
Mrs. Margaret Ewing

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the main funding headings which are used in providing grants to voluntary organisations and the changes that have taken place over the last five years.

Mr. John Patten

On 4 April last year my right hon. and noble Friend, the then Home Secretary, announced the publication of the report of the efficiency scrutiny of Government funding of the voluntary sector. Annex D of that report, a copy of which is in the Library, contains a list of grant schemes through which voluntary organisations were funded in 1987–88 and 1988–89. Details of changes which have taken place over the last five years are not available centrally.

Mrs. Margaret Ewing

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will publish in a table under the relevant headings all funding given to voluntary organisations in the most recent year for which figures are available and for the previous four years.

Mr. John Patten

Details of the total funding given to voluntary organisations by Government Departments are announced each year by my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister. Details for 1988–89 were announced on 11 May last year at columns254–55. Similar announcements covering total grants made in 1987–88, 1986–87 and 1985–86 were made on 16 May 1989 at columns 120–21, 14 April 1988 at columns 217–19 and 2 March 1987 at columns 464–65. An announcement in respect of total funding in 1989–90 is expected to be made shortly.

A list of all voluntary organisations funded by Government Departments was placed in the Library when details of grants made in 1988–89 were announced last May.