§ Mr. FieldTo ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what payments were made by the Criminal Injuries Compensation Fund over the past year. [151770]
§ Dr. ReidI believe my hon. Friend is referring to funds allocated by the Victims Liaison Unit in the Northern Ireland Office which provides support to victims of the Troubles.
In the past year, the Victims Liaison Unit allocated £1 million to the Northern Ireland Memorial Fund, bringing the total paid to the fund to date to £2 million. The fund will receive a further £3 million over the next three years.
£3 million was also provided for the scheme to core fund victims and survivors groups over a two-year period from 2000–02. To date £2,987,938 has been allocated from this scheme. The allocation of grants to individual groups is shown in the table.
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Allocation of grants from core funding for victim/survivors groups grants scheme as at 12 March 2001 £ Group Grant Aisling Centre 20,900 Alanna Consultancy Associates 1.070 An Crann/The Tree 86,100 Ardoyne Commemoration Project 3,000 Ballymurphy Womens Centre 67,697 BASE 2 (NIACRO) 50,750 CALMS 112,530 Coleraine/Ballymoney Branch Regimental Association UDR 73,660 Colleague Support Group 3,100 Corpus Christi Services 67,046 CRUSE 58,000 Cunamh 92,489 Derry City Council 2,500 FACT 68,780 FAIR 91,500 Fermanagh South Tyrone Terrorist Victims 85,400 Firinne 60,446 Greater Twinbrook and Poleglass Community Forum 3,000 HAVEN 22,600 Holy Trinity Centre 76,600 Institute for Counselling and Personal Development 123,990 Lenadoon Counselling Project 40,000 Lifeways Psychotherapy and Counselling 84,380 Make Your Mark 4,190 New Life Counselling 66,205 NOVA 80,000 Omagh Independent Advice Services 19,986 PAIN 88,718 Psychotherapy and Counselling Network 27,825 Relatives for Justice 99,000 Restorick Group 750 SAVER 5,000 Shankill Stress 126,680 South Down Action for Healing Wounds 87,800 Strabane Befriending and Counselling Association 72,554 Streetbeat Youth Project 54,620 Survivors of Trauma 110,000 Tara Counselling and Personal Development 40,000 The Cross Group 1,550 The Samaritans 8,000 The Wider Circle 30,000 Victims and Survivors Trust 83,950 WAVE 596,572 West Tyrone Voice 89,000