HC Deb 08 November 1995 vol 265 cc887-8W
Mr. Nigel Griffiths

To ask the President of the Board of Trade what is the ratio of the Department of Trade and Industry's funding of the National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux to the funding of citizens advice bureau by local authorities over the last five years. [42231]

Mr. Jonathan Evans

In each of the last five years funding by my Department of NACAB has been:

Year £ million
1991–92 11.032
1992–93 11.699
1993–94 12.252
Year £ million
1994–95 12.353
1995–96 111.916
1 Agreed to date but may change by the end of the financial year.

Individual citizens-advice bureaux are funded by individual local authorities. My Department does not hold information about the level of that funding.