§ Mr. SimsTo ask the Prime Minister if he will list the total amount paid in grants by Government Departments to voluntary bodies during the financial year 1990–91: and if he will make a statement.
§ The Prime MinisterGovernment funding to voluntary organisations in 1990–91 amounted to £2,680 million. Of this, £2,058 million was payments to voluntary housing associations; £150 million was payments under major employment and training schemes; and £472 million went to support provision of services and a wide range ofactivities and projects by a variety of voluntary organisations. This last figure, which represents the amount paid directly by Government funding to voluntary organisations, shows that direct Government funding of the voluntary sector increased in cash terms by 26.5 per cent.—16.6 per cent. in real terms—over the level of provision in 1989–90. In the period between 1979–80 and 1990–91, the level of the Government's support for voluntary bodies rose in real terms by 149.5 per cent., an increase in cash terms of 542.25 per cent.
The amount spent under individual departmental programmes was as follows:
869W
£ Agriculture, Fisheries and Food 179,037 Defence 9,688,730 Education and Science 5,725,346 Sports Council 13,454,000 Employment Training programmes 177,199,203 Energy 725,462 Environment Direct grants 15,965,568 Urban programme 51,300,000 Housing corporation 1,682,000,000 Countryside Commission 1,600,000 Nature Conservancy Council 1,469,000 Rural Development Commission 5,089,000 UK 2000 project grant fund 360,000 Foreign and Commonwealth Office 1,453,658 Overseas Development Administration 87,799,667 Health Direct grants 36,498,099 Health Education Authority 1,108,405 Home Office
£ Direct grants 33,856,000 Equal Opportunities Commission 19,814 Commission for Racial Equality 508,887 Northern Ireland Office Direct grants 17,673,816 Housing associations and societies 36,872,587 Sports Council for Northern Ireland 495,696 Economic Development Grants Action for Community Employment 49,230,056 Community workshops 17,739,038 Community volunteering schemes 890,000 Youth community projects 831,479 Young help 1,148,681 Scottish Office Direct grants 18,909,379 Urban programme 35,671,000 Housing associations 208,000,000 Countryside Commission for Scotland 1,004,341 Highlands and Islands Enterprise (formerly Highlands and Islands Development Board) 1,197,977 Sports Council for Scotland 1,451,561 Social Security 5,717,883 Trade and Industry 11,604,172 Transport 541,000 Welsh Office Direct grants 8,767,755 Urban programme 3,060,000 Joint finance/care in the community 336,000 Development Board for Rural Wales 420,664 Housing for Wales (Tai Cymru)—Grants to housing associations 131,387,947 Sports Council for Wales and Play Wales Management Committee 1,099,155 GRAND TOTAL 2,680,050,063 I am placing in the Library of the House a list of voluntary bodies funded by the Government in 1990–91 other than those funded under youth training and employment training, housing programmes and the urban programme or via non-departmental public bodies. Other recent publications about the relationship between Government and the voluntary sector already placed in the Library include "The Individual and the Community: The Role of the Voluntary Sector", and a leaflet entitled "Government and Voluntary Organisations Support and Partnership". Copies of these publications can be obtained from the voluntary services unit, Home Office, Room 1373, 50 Queen Anne's gate, London SW 1 H 9AT.