§ Mr. LetwinTo ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for South-West Bedfordshire (Andrew Selous) of 585W 25 January 2002, Official Report, columns 1183–85W, on Government funding of the voluntary sector, if she will list the grant schemes and other mechanisms by which her Department distributes funding to voluntary sector organisations. [51410]
§ Ms Hewitt[holding answer 19 April 2002]: Information on my Department's funding sources and initiatives can be found in table C1 and in the text of my Department's 2001 expenditure plans report (Cm 5112), a copy of which is in the Libraries of the House.
Many of my Department's programmes are not sector specific and providing further information on take-up of these programmes by the voluntary sector would entail disproportionate cost. However, my Department directly funded the following voluntary organisations in 2000–01:
Organisation Funding National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux (£ million) 16.9 Citizens Advice, Scotland (£ million) 2.225 Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (£) 180,000 Child Accident Prevention Trust (£) 25,000 Business Volunteer Mentoring Association (£ million) 1 Other (£) 25,015