§ Mr. DuncanTo ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what the Northern Ireland social fund discretionary budget will be for 1995–96. [17951]
§ Mr. MossI am pleased to announce that the social fund gross discretionary budget for 1995–96 will be £31.84 million. £9.76 million will be allocated to grants, £21.98 million to loans and £0.1 million will be held as a contingency reserve. The new allocations represent an increase of almost £2 million over the gross budget set in April 1994.
Details of the individual district budget allocations, together with a note explaining the basis on which they have been made, will be placed in the Library today.