§ Mr. HendryTo ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what funding programmes are operated by her Department to support voluntary organisations working with young people; and what the level of support has been in each of the last three years. [120534]
§ Alun MichaelDefra funds a wide variety of voluntary organisation which work with young people but it is difficult to separate out specific expenditure within funding across all the department's programmes. Much of the work done with young people is carried out as part of broader programmes of work that also target other groups. Because of this it is not possible to rapidly provide a precise breakdown of support to voluntary organisations working with young people. Other
Table 1 Funding programme 2001/02 Total funding 2002 (£) Number of grants 2002 Average grant (£)2002 Total funding 2001(£) Number of grants 2001 Average grant (£)2001 The Rural Stress—Action Plan 300,000 3 100,000 597,288 4 149,322 Nat Federation of Young Farmers 66,000 1 — 68,000 2 34,000 National Energy Action 943,335 1 — 850,000 1 — ENCAMS 3,876,000 1 — 3,542,000 1 — Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group 448,357 4 112,089 284,000 1 — Wildlife and Countryside Research Programme 219,027 6 36,505 92,242 3 30,747 Environmental Action Fund 4,115,600 92 44,735 4,187,525 142 29,489 Programme Development Fund 10,572 10 1,057 11,318 4 2,830 Countryside agency schemes 8,677,614 501 370,009 8,935,035 418 129,510 Charity Match Funding (FMD) 16,642,363 55 302,588 1— 1— — English Nature schemes 3,613,961 48 476,671 1,701,689 70 22,290 Totals 38,912,829 722 — 20,269,097 646 — 1 No previous