asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will publish in the Official Report a list of all non-statutory bodies to which his Department has made grants for the years 1981–82 and 1982–83, showing the name of the organisation, the amount of grant and the powers under which the grant is made; and if he will also give similar information for grant-aid by other statutory bodies for which his Department is responsible, including those relating to overseas development.
The following payments in respect of grants to non-statutory bodies were made in the financial years 1981–82 and 1982–83. Where final figures for 1982–83 are not yet know, Estimate provisions have been given.In all cases the authority for grants by the diplomatic wing of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office rests on the annual Appropriation Act. The authority for Overseas Development Administration expenditure is section 1 of the Overseas Development and Co-operation Act 1980.There are no statutory bodies for which the Foreign and Commonwealth Office is responsible which make similar grants to non-statutory organisations.
| Diplomatic wing | ||
| 1981–82 | 1982–83 | |
| £ | £ | |
| 1. British Broadcasting Corporation | 61,798,000 | 69,916,000 |
| 2. British Council | 34,116,921 | 38,360,000 |
1981–82
| 1982–83
| |
£
| £
| |
| 3. Indo British Exchange Conference | — | 1,800 |
| 4. Franco British Parliamentary Relations Committee | 130 | 1,994 |
| 5. European Schools Day International | 1,100 | 1,100 |
| United Kingdom | 7,064 | 4,400 |
| 6. Royal Commonwealth Society | — | 3,800 |
| 7. Joint Commonwealth Societies Council | 1,250 | 1,400 |
| 8. Commonwealth Institute—London | 1,862,000 | 2,030,000 |
| 9. Commonwealth Institute—Scotland | 109,520 | 114,000 |
| 10. Great Britain/East Europe Centre | 94,355 | 92,600 |
| 11. Great Britain/USSR Association | 85,232 | 89,000 |
| 12. Great Britain/China Centre | 57,000 | 51,000 |
| 13. Franco British Council (British Section) Ltd | 46,900 | 71,600 |
| 14. British Atlantic Committee | 33,185 | 61,500 |
| 15. British Youth Council | 35,112 | 41,800 |
| 16. United Nations Association | 23,000 | 24,000 |
| 17. British Yugoslav Society | 9,000 | 9,800 |
| 18. Commonwealth Foundation | 330,000 | 330,000 |
| 19. North Atlantic Assembly | 116,408 | 126,602 |
| 20. International Committtee of the Red Cross | 135,000 | 225,000 |
| 21. International Commission of Jurists | 8,000 | 8,000 |
| 22. South African War Graves Board | 3,100 | 3,100 |
| 23. College of Europe: Bruges | 2,500 | 2,500 |
| 24. United Kingdom Immigrants Advisory Service | 10,959 | 12,000 |
| 25. Trilateral Commission | 1,000 | 1,000 |
| 26. Ockenden Venture | 5,000 | 6,500 |
| 27. Afghanistan Support Committee | — | 15,000 |
| 28. European Movement (British Council) Ltd | 30,000 | 30,000 |
| 29. Federal Trust for Education and Research | 8,000 | — |
Oda Wing
| ||
Note: i. Only British organisations have been included in the list. | ||
1981–82
| 1982–83
| |
£
| £
| |
Subhead D3
| ||
| Centre for World Development Education | 149,000 | 150,000 |
| Scottish Ed. and Action for Development | 8,125 | 8,000 |
| Third World First | 2,030 | — |
| Third World Information Centre, Leamington Spa | 1,608 | — |
| Leicester Polytechnic | 6,497 | — |
| Ujamaa Centre | 2,872 | — |
| Archway DEC | 469 | — |
| Groby College, Leicester | 236 | — |
| Sheffield World Poverty Action Group | 2,257 | — |
| Iona Community, Glasgow | 8,753 | 3,051 |
| Scottish Churches Action for World Development | 2,875 | — |
| Schools Council | 1,900 | — |
| United Kingdom/UNICEF | 9,106 | 2,687 |
| Birmingham International Council | 14,995 | — |
| Jordanhill College | 1,497 | — |
1981–82
| 1982–83
| |
£
| £
| |
| Sheffield Association of Youth Clubs | 6,982 | — |
| Council for Education in World Citizenship | 667 | — |
| Ruskin College, Oxford (TUEREG) | 396 | — |
| Dorset Institute of Higher Education | 132 | — |
| United Nations Association (NW) | 45 | — |
| Northants County Council | 92 | — |
| National Association of Development Education Centres | 1,000 | — |
Subhead D4
| ||
| Voluntary Service Overseas | 2,711,000 | 3,347,000 |
| Catholic Institute for International Relations | 256,000 | 322,000 |
| United Nations Assn International Service | 149,000 | 182,000 |
| International Voluntary Service | 227,000 | 277,000 |
| British Volunteer Programme Secretariat | 14,000 | 15,000 |
| World University Service | 2,228,038 | 1,507,000 |
| Association of Commonwealth Universities | 22,747 | 17,000 |
Subhead D5
| ||
| British Council | 29,376,939 | 29,218,000 |
Subhead D6
| ||
| Institute of Development Studies | 1,160,292 | 1,093,000 |
Subhead D9
| ||
| Bureau of Hygiene and Tropical Diseases | 120,000 | 120,000 |
| Commonwealth Forestry Institute | 100,000 | — |
| City and Guilds of London Institute | 60,000 | 65,000 |
| Queen Elizabeth House | 190,963 | 202,514 |
| Christians Abroad | 1,540 | 12,840 |
| British Executive Service Overseas | 234,000 | 260,000 |
| Oxfam | 1,200,000 | 1,200,000 |
| Christian Aid | 300,000 | 333,000 |
| Save the Children Fund | 1,026 | — |
| Catholic Fund for Overseas Development | 90,000 | 100,000 |
| Plunkett Foundation | 5,625 | 6,000 |
| British Institute of International and Comparative Law | 10,000 | — |
| British Red Cross Society | 15,000 | 20,000 |
Subhead D10
| ||
| African Medical and Research Foundation | 125,000 | 250,000 |
| Appropriate Technology | 698,495 | 780,000 |
| Building Research Establishment (Overseas Unit) | 191,266 | 200,000 |
| Building and Social Housing Foundation | 32,944 | — |
| Centre for Population Studies (Overseas Section) | 118,947 | 125,000 |
| Centre for Training and Technical Co-operation in Food and Nutrition Planning | 29,455 | 44,947 |
| Centre for Tropical Veterinary Medicine | 542,136 | 578,000 |
| Co-operative Liaison Education and Research Unit | 40,000 | — |
| Co-operative Union Ltd. | 12,722 | — |
1981–82
| 1982–83
| |
£
| £
| |
| David Owen Centre for Population Growth Studies | 25,280 | 9,480 |
| Development Planning Unit: University College London | 72,198 | 20,000 |
| Energy Technology Division Harwell (UKAEA) | 77,632 | 104,000 |
| Evaluation and Planning Centre for Health Care | 179,878 | — |
| Farnham Castle | 158,158 | 173,000 |
| Hydraulics Research Station (Overseas Unit) | 599,000 | 911,600 |
| UK Trade Agency for Developing Countries | 242,136 | 188,000 |
| Indian Institute of Technology—Imperial College Link | 4,888 | — |
| Institute of Geological Sciences (Overseas Division) | 1,030,461 | 1,085,000 |
| Institute of Hydrology | 190,000 | 195,000 |
| Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine—Department of Child Health | 156,670 | — |
| National Institute of Agricultural Engineering | 210,867 | 246,000 |
| Overseas Development Institute | 297,960 | 358,000 |
| Overseas Spraying Machinery Centre | 25,332 | 27,000 |
| Reading University Agricultural Extension and Rural Development Centre | 90,818 | 95,000 |
| Reading University Chair of Agricultural Development Overseas | 57,171 | 24,530 |
| Royal Commonwealth Society for the Blind | 27,020 | 12,820 |
| Transport and Road Research Laboratory (Overseas Unit) | 1,062,460 | 1,918,000 |
| Tsetse Research Laboratory | 166,709 | 174,165 |
| University of London: Institute of Child Health | 51,776 | 46,840 |
| University of London: Child to Child Programme for UN Year of the Child—1979 | 44,731 | — |
| University of London/University of Dacca. | ||
| Institute of Educational Research Link | 11,971 | — |
| University of Newcastle on Tyne: Department of Child Health | 32,000 | 32,240 |
| Voluntary Agencies Development Projects Overseas | ||
| Save the Children Fund | 275,000 | 310,000 |
| Girl Guide Association | 1,611 | — |
| Population Services | 119,000 | 96,336 |
| Friends of Peru | 7,100 | 7,100 |
| Green Deserts | 6,573 | — |
| British Nepal Medical Trust | 44,074 | — |
| Royal Commonwealth Society for the Blind | 46,200 | 25,000 |
| Seventh Day Adventists | 13,200 | — |
| Africa Inland Mission | 10,751 | — |
| Leprosy Mission | 32,342 | — |
| Amazon Trust | 50,000 | 48,000 |
| Action Aid | 28,621 | 79,074 |
| Associated Country Mission of the World | 3,114 | — |
| National Childrens Home | 7,538 | — |
| Anstey Draksharan | 920 | — |
| Tear Fund | 20,774 | 16,573 |
| Selly Oak Colleges | 2,000 | — |
| British Red Cross | 38,731 | — |
| Friends of Jairos Jiri | 4,1047 | — |
| Leonard Cheshire International | 50,000 | — |
1981–82
| 1982–83
| |
£
| £
| |
| War on Want | 19,210 | — |
| Salvation Army | 34,152 | — |
| Quaker Peace and Service | 11,418 | — |
| Oxfam | 33,950 | — |
| Feed the Minds | 10,000 | — |
| Bolt Trust | 50,000 | — |
| Christian Aid | 10,000 | — |
| Zimbabwe Trust | 6,875 | — |
| Dona | — | 8,000 |
| Rurcon | — | 7,000 |
| Help the Aged | — | 7,051 |
| Voluntary Agency Projects on Behalf of Refugees (Humanitarian Relief) | ||
| YMCA | 13,939 | 10,905 |
| Christian Outreach | — | 10,000 |
| British Red Cross | — | 4,902 |
| Save the Children Fund | 68,950 | 86,750 |
| Ockenden Venture | 4,500 | 9,500 |
| World University Service | 1,000 | — |
| VSO | — | 4,000 |
| Accord | — | 290,000 |
| Action Aid | — | 125,000 |
| Spicma (Special Projects in Christian Missionary Areas) | — | 50,000 |
| Women's Corona Society | 20,805 | 30,000 |
| National Council for Remote Sensing | 30,000 | — |
| University of Bristol: Tsetse Research | 21,483 | 26,000 |
| University of Bangor Link with University of Faisalabad. Salt Tolerance in Wheat | 48,732 | 12,000 |
| Trade Union Conference | 73,021 | — |
| Young Men's Christian Association | 13,754 | — |
| Technical Co-operation: Medical Lectureships | 454,985 | 505,000 |
| Overseas Sundry Services UK National Committee for UNESCO | 11,500 | 12,000 |
| Standing Conference on Refugees | 10,000 | — |
| Ranfurly Library Service | 10,000 | 10,000 |
| Returned Volunteer Action | 8,500 | 2,835 |
| Journal of Administration Overseas | 1,800 | 1,200 |
| International Union of Local Authorities | 3,000 | 3,000 |
| Rothamsted Experimental Station: Tropical Virology Work | 15,957 | — |
| International Bee Research Association | 12,435 | 6,771 |
| Society for International Development | 100 | 100 |
| Royal Institute of Public Administration | — | 1,000 |