PMQT Written Answers – 22 March 1991
Below is the text of the written answers relating to Prime Minister’s Question Time from 22nd March 1991.
PRIME MINISTER:
Voluntary Bodies
Mr. Paice : To ask the Prime Minister if he will list the total amount paid in grants by Government Departments to voluntary bodies during the financial year 1989-90; and if he will make a statement.
The Prime Minister : Government funding to voluntary organisations in 1989-90 amounted to £2.36 billion. Of this, £1,681 million was payments to housing associations; £204 million was payments under major employment and training schemes; £373 million went to support provision of services and a wide range of activities and projects by a variety of voluntary organisations. The amount spent under individual departmental programmes is as follows :
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Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
Defence
Education and Science
Employment
Youth training scheme
Employment training
Other programmes
Energy
Environment
Direct grants
Urban programme
Housing corporation
Countryside Commission
Nature Conservancy Council
Rural Development Commission
Sports Council
UK 2000 project grant fund
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Overseas Development Administration
Health
Direct grants
Health Education Authority
Home Office
Direct grants
Equal Opportunities Commission
Commission for Racial Equality
Lord Chancellor’s Department
Northern Ireland Office
Direct grants
Housing associations and societies
Economic Development Grants:
Action for community employment
Community workshops
Community volunteer schemes
Youth Community project
Youth Help
Sports Council for Northern Ireland
Scottish Office
Direct grants
Urban programme
Housing associations
Countryside Commission for Scotland
Highlands and Island Development Board
Sports Council for Scotland
Social Security
Trade and Industry
Transport
Welsh Office
Direct grants
Urban programme
Joint Finance/Care in the Community
Housing associations and societies
Development Board for Rural Wales
Sports Council for Wales
Grand total
Excluding payments under major employment and training schemes and to housing association and societies funding has increased in cash terms by 8.3 per cent. over the level of provision in 1988-89. In the period between 1979-80 and 1989-90 the level of this Government’s support for voluntary bodies has risen by 114 per cent. in real terms.
I am placing in the Library of the House a list of voluntary bodies funded by Government in 1989-90, other than those funded under the youth training scheme and employment training, housing programmes and the urban programme or via non-departmental public bodies.
Security Commissioner (Report)
Mr. Hannam : To ask the Prime Minister when the Commissioner appointed under the Security Service Act 1989 will present his first annual report; and if he will make a statement.
The Prime Minister : A copy of Lord Justice Stuart-Smith’s first annual report, for 1990, has been laid before the House today in accordance with section 4(6) of the Security Service Act 1989. The confidential appendix to the report has been excluded from that copy in accordance with section 4(7) of the 1989 Act. I am grateful to the commissioner for his work in reviewing the issue of warrants and note that he is satisfied that the Secretaries of State have properly exercised their powers under the Act.
Troops (Homecoming)
Mr. Mates : To ask the Prime Minister how the Government intend (a) to mark the safe homecoming of British troops who contributed to the liberation of Kuwait, (b) to pay tribute to those who lost their lives in that cause and (c) to honour those who gave gallant and meritorious service.
The Prime Minister : A service of remembrance and thanksgiving will be held in Glasgow cathedral in the presence of Her Majesty the Queen on Saturday 4 May.
The Lord Mayor and the Corporation of London will host a reception at Guildhall on Friday 21 June for members of British forces. It will be preceded by a march through the City at which Her Majesty the Queen will take the salute.
Her Majesty the Queen has approved the award of a Gulf medal for those who served in the region. She has also agreed that there should be a Gulf honours list, to be published at the end of June, for those who displayed gallantry and gave meritorious service.