§ Mr. Damian GreenTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, pursuant to his answer of 26 November 2003,Official Report, column 189W, on non-governmental organisations, if he will list the voluntary and private organisations to which the Department makes grants directly. [89334]
§ Mr. Charles ClarkeThe Department's current accounting system does not distinguish between payments made as grants and those made through contractual arrangements, nor does it identify the status of the organisation to which payments have been made. We have explored how this information could be held centrally and have taken action to include this type of information in the design of the Department's future accounting system, which is planned to be in place from April 2004.
The information could, therefore, be provided in the form requested only at disproportionate cost. I have, however, placed in the Libraries a list of organisations that either received a grant or to whom the Department made a contract payment from programme funds during 2001–02. Specific details of what is covered by the list are set out in the material placed in the Libraries.