§ Mr. LockTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will list (i) the names of the beneficiaries of all the discretionary grants awarded by his Department to organisations within Worcestershire during 1998, (ii) their monetary value, (iii) their total value and (iv) the proportion that that total sum comprises of the total sums awarded by his Department in discretionary grants in 1998. [75254]
§ Mr. MudieThe information is shown in the following table.
Beneficiaries of discretionary grant from DfEE in 1998–99 £ Pershore and Hindlip College 26,996 Evesham College 15,972 Kidderminster College 14,664 North East Worcestershire College 48,171 Worcester College of Technology 28,437 Worcester Sixth Form College 942 Worcestershire Local Education Authority 5,764,000 Royal National Institute for the Blind New College Worcester 25,000 Avoncroft Museum of Historic Buildings 12,400 Malvern Girls College and Malvern Parish CE Primary School 9,000 Worcestershire County Council 312,805 Mencap Pathway 21,102 Redditch Borough Council 9,990 Areley Kings Playgroup 1,000 Broadwas Bumblebee Playgroup 1,000 Busy Bears Pre-School Playgroup 1,000 Busy Bees Pre-School Playgroup 1,000 Catshill Village Pre-School Playgroup 1,000 Cornmeadow Lane Playgroup 960 Droitwich Spa Pre-School Playgroup 700 Lower Broadheath Pre-School 500 Redditch YMCA Pre-School 600 Rowney Green Pre-School 300 Stoneyhill Pre-School Playgroup 1,000 Tan Lane Pre-School Nursery 1,000 Teddy Bears Club 1,000 Brockhampton Estate 16,975 SME Clean Technology grant 40,000 Ledbury Lower Link 45,000 Edwin Ralph multi-purpose village church 29,250 Witley Baroque Church 141,000 Total paid in discretionary grants 6,572,764 Notes:
1. Grants paid under the terms of the European Social Fund to organisations in Worcester are not separately identifiable. Organisations in Hereford and Worcester received £535,692.
2. Grants for Travellers and displaced persons in Worcestershire under section 488 of the Education Act 1996 are not separately identifiable. Grants paid to a consortium of West Midlands Local Education Authorities, including Worcestershire, received £826,167.