§ Sir John WheelerTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he is yet able to announce the successful applicants for Home Office programme development visit grants for local projects dealing with crime and criminal justice.
§ Mr. JackI am pleased to announce that £1.8 million over three years has been awarded to 12 projects around the country under a scheme designed to stimulate innovative new local responses to crime problems.
The successful projects selected for funding by the Home Office programme development unit in 1992–93 (budgets subject to final confirmation) are: 346W
£ Domestic Violence Crisis Intervention Pilot (Islington Safer Cities/Metropolitan Police) 100,000 Mediation and Employment Project (Community Justice Centre, Cardiff: South Glamorgan Social Services) 100,000 Women and Violence (Leeds Inter-agency Project) 90,000 Healthy Alliance for Dorset (School-based multi-agency project: Bournemouth, Poole) 70,000 Young Children First (High/Scope UK: Lewisham, Liverpool, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Manchester) 58,000 Preventing Criminality (Multi-agency: Sheffield) 55,000 Education, Advice and Counselling for Black Young Men (Lewisham Youth Aid) 55,000 Mobile Advice and Support Service for Families (Welsh Women's Aid: North Wales) 38,000 Asian Women, Domestic Violence and Mental Health (Southall Black Sisters) 34,000 Peer Education Nottingham 30,000 Support and Advice for Vulnerable Elders (Lewisham Social Services) 30,000 Youth Education Programme (Keighley Domestic Violence Forum) 10,000 I should like to congratulate the successful applicants and recognise the energy, commitment and high quality that was such a striking feature across the 750 proposals received from all parts of the country. The aim of the programme development unit is to respond to and encourage the excellent ideas that are generated at local level.
We shall be looking very carefully at the progress of these projects so that good ideas whose value is proved can be widely disseminated.