asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what allocations have been made through the joint funding scheme for 1982–83; which voluntary organisations have been allocated grants and for what purposes; and which voluntary organisations have been allocated grants under joint funding for population and family planning programmes.

The sum of £2,270,000 has been allocated for joint funding purposes in 1982–83. This is made up as follows:

	£
OXFAM	1,200,000
Christian Aid	310,000
Catholic Fund for Overseas Development (CAFOD)	100,000
Save the Children Fund	310,000
Other Agencies	350,000

The grants to OXFAM, Christian Aid, CAFOD and SCF are allocations to be spent on agreed development projects put forward for support in the course of the year.Grants so far allocated to other agencies are as follows:

		£
Action Aid	Provision of school furniture—Gambia	12,495
	School building project—Gambia	30,757
	Well digging—Gambia	36,422
Amazon Trust	Health project—Peru	48,000
British Red Cross Society	Polyclinic—Algeria	25,000
Dominica Overseas Nationals Association	Hospital Laundry-Dominica	8,000
Friends of Peru	Community Health Centre—Peru	7,100
Population Services	Family Planning—Philippines	44,528
International	MCH/FP Information and Education—Haiti	8,728
	Ayurvedic practitioners FP programme—Sri Lanka	42,817
Royal Commonwealth Society for the Blind	Opthalmic Institute and Training Complex—Bangladesh	25,000
RURCON	International Rural Development Seminar—Sierra Leone	7,000
Tear Fund	Land Settlement Programme—Paraguay	16,573

Population programmes are being funded through Population Services International, as described above. fn addition, a payment of £12,823 has been made from the 1982–83 allocation for CAFOD in support of a family planning workship in Mauritius and we expect to make contributions, through OXFAM, for family planning projects in Bangladesh (£1,256) and Pakistan (£3,175).