HC Deb 16 June 1994 vol 244 c652W
Mr. Martyn Jones

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what amount of funding his Department has provided for each year since 1991, to(a) Church in Wales Children Society, (b) Barnadoes in Wales, (c) the National Children's Home in Wales (d) the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children Wales/Cymru and (e) Save the Children in Wales.

Mr. Gwilym Jones

Under the support for child and family services grant scheme, some of these organisations have had awards to support various projects from 1991–92 to date. The table sets out, where applicable, the total amount granted in each financial year.

Mr. Gwilym Jones

Full details of the Welsh Office's environmental research programme in Wales is published annually in "Research Wales", copies of which are placed in the Library of the House. Current research projects on radioactivity involve a study of tidal washed pastures on the eastern Irish sea coast, jointly funded with the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Department of the Environment and Her Majesty's inspectorate of pollution; and on plutonium in soils in Wales.

As reported in the annual environmental digests for Wales, also placed in the Library of the House, continuous monitoring of radioactivity is carried out on behalf of the Welsh Office by a number of organisations.

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