HC Deb 24 April 2002 vol 384 cc304-6W
Mr. Letwin

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for South-West Bedfordshire of 25 January 2002,Official Report, columns 1185–86W, on Government funding of the voluntary sector, if she will list the grant schemes and other mechanisms by which (a) her Department and (b) the Basic Skills Agency distributes funding to voluntary sector organisations. [51408]

Mr. Ivan Lewis

[holding answer 19 April 2002]: The information requested is as follows. This includes relevant grant schemes and policy and research programmes which involve the distribution of funds to the voluntary sector.

(a) Funding programmes under which payments were made to voluntary organisations by the Department for Education and Skills, financial year 2000–01.

  • Active Engagement Policy
  • Anne Frank Education Pack
  • Baseline Survey of Parents Demand for Childcare-Extra Analysis
  • British Social Attitudes Survey (BSAS): 1999–2002
  • Career Service Initial Training
  • Child Safety Week
  • Community Champions Fund
  • Community Links
  • Connexions
  • Development of Citizenship Education Resources
  • Disability: attitudes and experiences.
  • Drug Education Forum—Core and other funding
  • Early Years and Childcare Small Grants programme
  • Education and Prevention Team—Core funding
  • Educational Grants Advisory Service (EGAS)
  • European Social Fund
  • Excellence and Access Project (Personal Finance in Schools)
  • Family Support Policy
  • Fourth and Fifth Annual Surveys of Parents of Three and Four-year-olds
  • Grant under Section 64 of the Health Services and Public Health Act 1968
  • Improving the take-up of free school meals (FSM)
  • Improving the Training Market
  • Independent/State School Partnerships Grant Scheme
  • Learning Partnerships
  • Millennium Volunteers
  • Music for Youth
  • National Adult Learning Survey (NALS) 2001
  • National Children's Bureau—Core funding
  • National Health Education Group—Core funding
  • National Mentoring Network
  • National Reading Campaign
  • National Voluntary Youth Organisations Grant Scheme
  • Neighbourhood Support Fund
  • On Track
  • Outward secondments (financial value of)
  • Personal Adviser Training
  • Partners for Study Support
  • Playing for Success
  • Quality Standards Project
  • Repeat of "Parents' Demand for Childcare" survey
  • School Governor Training and Development
  • School Sport Coordinators
  • School Business Links
  • Special Educational Needs Small Programmes Fund
  • Sex Education Forum—core and other funding
  • Social Inclusion Pupil Support Grant (SIPS)
  • Study of Movement from Playgroups to Reception Classes
  • Summer Activities For 16-Year-Olds Pilot
  • Sure Start
  • Volunteer Reading Help
  • Youth Cohort Study (YCS)—Interview and postal survey of 17 and 19-year-olds.

(b) Funding programmes under which payments were made to voluntary organisations by the Basic Skills Agency, financial year 2000–01.

  • Financial literacy and basic skills
  • Community Based Education for Speakers of Other Languages (CBESOL)
  • Family Programmes
  • National Voluntary Organisations Partnership Programme.