§ Mr. SpearingTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what public funds880W estimates of the total cost to the national insurance fund of current holders of appropriate personal pensions opting back into the state earnings-related pension scheme would depend on a large number of unknown factors: these include how long the people concerned would remain contracted in to SERPS, how long they would otherwise have contributed to APP schemes and what their future earnings would be. The table gives illustrative estimates of the cost arising, in selected future years, from contributions paid solely in the single year in which the individuals concerned are assumed to contract into SERPS.
were made available in the current financial year and what changes are likely for the year 1995–96 for payments to (a) the Westminster Foundation for Democracy and (b) the Council for Education in World Citizenship; and in which countries each organisation operates.
§ Mr. Baldry(a) The Westminster Foundation for Democracy received a grant in aid of £2.2 million for the current financial year. The foundation will receive £2.5 million for the financial year 1995–96. The foundation exists to promote democratic development worldwide. The majority of its income is spent in central and eastern Europe, former Soviet Union and anglophone Africa.
(b) The Council for Education in World Citizenship is an independent charity operating throughout the United Kingdom, which currently receives funding from the Department for Education, the Scottish Education Department and the Department of Education, Northern Ireland. In 1994–95, the DFE grant amounted to £110,000. In 1995–96, the DFE proposes to provide CEWC with funds totalling £85,000.