asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science (1) if he will list in the Official Report those local authorities which have made application to him for a grant to improve literacy and the amount of money allocated to each of them for this work;(2) what sum of money has been made available from public funds for the use of agencies engaged in campaigns to improve literacy.
The Adult Literacy Resource Agency, which invited the National Institute of Adult Education to establish, is administering a sum of £1 million, which my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Scotland and I have made available for use by the end of the present financial year, to assist local education authorities and other bodies to combat adult illiteracy. The information given below has been provided by the agency:
| APPLICATIONS FROM LOCAL EDUCATION AUTHORITIES IN ENGLAND AND WALES | |
| TABLE 1 | |
| ALLOCATIONS MADE AT 12TH MAY 1975 | |
| Counties | Allocation |
| £ | |
| Bedfordshire | 4,650 |
| Berkshire | 8,395 |
| Buckinghamshire | 9,500 |
| Cheshire | 1,980 |
| Cleveland | 7,670 |
| Cumbria | 8,650 |
| Derbyshire | 9,843 |
| Devon | 10,000 |
| East Sussex | 9,730 |
| Essex | 8,840 |
| Humberside | 9,525 |
| Isle of Wight | 1,000 |
| Kent | 6,100 |
| Leicestershire | 9,850 |
| Northumberland | 6,065 |
| Oxfordshire | 3,646 |
| Warwickshire | 9,900 |
| Metropolitan Districts | Allocation |
| £ | |
| Bolton | 7,188 |
| Bury | 3,635 |
| Oldham | 1,846 |
| Rochdale | 1,596 |
| Salford | 6,224 |
| Stockport | 5,347 |
| Tameside | 1,000 |
| Trafford | 8,077 |
| Knowsley | 3,058 |
| Liverpool | 3,650 |
| Sheffield | 9,500 |
| Bradford | 7,132 |
| Leeds | 2,020 |
| Coventry | 3,870 |
| Walsall | 3,684 |
| Wolverhampton | 1,337 |
| Newcastle upon Tyne | 2,896 |
| Sunderland | 7,719 |
| Greater London Boroughs | Allocation |
| £ | |
| Croydon | 5,540 |
| Enfield | 1,389 |
| Haringey | 1,400 |
| Kingston upon Thames | 187 |
| Merton | 2,536 |
| Newham | 2,858 |
Note: An allocation is the amount to which the agency has agreed to reimburse local education authorities for their expenditure on additional provision for adult literacy.
| TABLE 2 | |
| APPLICATIONS STILL UNDER CONSIDERATION AT 12TH MAY 1975 | |
Counties
| |
| Clwyd | Nottinghamshire |
| Dorset | Suffolk |
| Norfolk | West Sussex |
| Northamptonshire | |
Metropolitan Districts
| |
| Barnsley | Rotherham |
| Dudley | Wakefield |
| Kirklees | Wirral |
Greater London Boroughs
| |
| Brent | Hounslow |
| Havering | Kingston upon Thames |
| Inner London Education Authority | |