asked the Secretary of State for Social Services (1) if he will list those agencies and non-hospital projects working in the field of alcoholic rehabilitation which are wholly or partly funded by the Department; what is the amount of grant in each case; and if he will indicate the level of funding in each case proposed for the next financial year(2) what is the amount of grants paid by his Department to voluntary organisations which provide hostels for homeless people with a drinking problem for each year since 1974; how much is proposed for 1980–81; if he is satisfied with the level of his Department's support to such voluntary organisations; and what is his estimate of the number of people who suffer from a drinking problem.
The grants given in 1978–79 to voluntary agencies concerned with alcoholic rehabilitation were:
GRANTS TOWARDS THE SETTING UP AND RUNNING OF HOSTELS | |
£ | |
Alcoholics Recovery Project | 24,312 |
Allen House Trust, Bognor Regis | 5,388 |
Aquarius | 27,795 |
Avon Council on Alcoholism | 12,382 |
Birmingham Diocesan Council for Social Aid | 9,882 |
Bow Mission | 32,201 |
Camden Alcoholics Support Association | 28,258 |
Church Army (final claim not yet received) | — |
Coventry Cyrenians | 3,673 |
Devon Council on Alcoholism | 6,752 |
Hostel, Maidstone Council of Churches | 2,903 |
Hampshire Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders | 7,040 |
Hastings Hostel Ltd., Leicester | 9,894 |
Helping Hand Organisation | 74,845 |
Homeless Action and Accommodation Ltd | 3,885 |
Oxford and District Council on Alcoholism | 8,063 |
Petrus Community | 20,005 |
Royal London Aid Society | 9,400 |
Salvation Army | 30,075 |
St. Anne's Shelter and Housing Action Ltd., Leeds | 30,664 |
£ | |
Society of St. Dismas, Southampton | 19,365 |
Scunthorpe Committee on Alcoholism | 1,639 |
South East London Consortium | 26,000 |
Spelthorne St. Mary, Harpenden | 4,540 |
Spitalfields Crypt Association | 18,179 |
Stonham Housing Association | 14,834 |
Thamesdown and North Wiltshire Council on Alcoholism | 8,344 |
Wayback Foundation, Plymouth | 7,472 |
West London Cyrenians | 1,808 |
Westminster Advisory Centre on Alcoholism | 125 |
OTHER | |
£ | |
Alcohol Education Centre | 50,000 |
Alcoholic Recovery Project | 11,000 |
Aquarius Resource Centre | 14,219 |
Federation of Alcoholic Rehabilitation Establishments | 46,265 |
Helping Hand Organisation | 24,300 |
Helping Hand Organisation/Bedford Advice Centre | 10,400 |
Medical Council on Alcoholism | 14,450 |
National Council on Alcoholism | 147,000 |
Norfolk Council on Alcoholism | 24,000 |
South-East London Consortium | 13,000 |
St. Botolph's | 3,500 |
Capital | Revenue | Total | |
£ | £ | £ | |
1974–75 | 132,505 | 88,035 | 220,540 |
1975–76 | 199,903 | 102,934 | 302,837 |
1976–77 | 270,883 | 188,033 | 458,916 |
1977–78 | 205,060 | 263,219 | 468,279 |
1978–79 | 145,524 | 318,116 | 463,640 |
1979–80* | 150,000 | 350,000 | 500,000 |
Totals | 1,103,875 | 1,310,337 | 2,414,212 |
* Estimated. |
the number of alcoholics in the United Kingdom.—[Vol 972. c.
559.]