To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster if he will list the projects helped by the Handsworth task force and the contribution made to each project by (a) the task force, (b) Birmingham city council, (c) the Manpower Services Commission, and (d) other sources.
The list is as follows:
Approved projects
| Task force
| Birmingham City Council
| MSC
| Other sources
|
| Black Business in Birmingham: venture capital fund to assist development of local small black business | 88,800 | — | — | — |
| Business Action Team offering free business consultancy to small local business and developing an executive recruitment service | 113,605 | — | — | — |
| Federation of Black Housing Associations seminar on construction contracts | 4,670 | — | — | — |
| Establishment of Handsworth Builders' Association, to advise and train local small builders | 105,000 | — | — | — |
| Handsworth Task Force Development Fund: grants and loans in co-operation with National Westminster Bank and the City Council | 250,000 | — | — | 280,000 |
| Redevelopment of the Lozells Road Shops (including feasibility work) | 494,198 | 84,000 | — | 1,271,000 |
| Micro Business Support Service to those receiving Task Force Development Fund assistance | 34,907 | — | — | 1,000 |
| Rastafarian Enterprise Initiative, expansion of existing community business | 23,500 | — | — | — |
| Winson Green/Rotton Park Employment Project | 25,000 | 27,500 | — | 107,500 |
| Attock Welfare Employment and Training—CP pilot initiative | 10,000 | — | 15,000 | — |
| Birmingham Young Volunteers: support and advice to young people at risk | 8,000 | — | — | 23,000 |
| Broadway Lower School Technology Laboratory—computer hardware and refurbishment costs | 20,000 | — | — | 39,000 |
| City of Handsworth Alternative Scheme (CHAS): employment and training advice for ex-offenders | 38,604 | 3,750 | — | 11,250 |
| Effective leadership in inner city schools: management development training for local teachers | 780 | — | — | — |
| Fire service pre-recruitment training programme | 7,500 | 1,500 | 8,700 | — |
| Guru Ravidass Cultural Association: skills workshop conversion | 18,000 | — | 54,000 | 7,000 |
| Handsworth Employment Scheme feasibility work and subsequent capital equipment funding for bakery and YTS workshop on the Camp lane site | 150,610 | — | 43,954 | — |
| Handsworth Under Fives Forum (HUFF) Training for nursery staff | 27,800 | — | 15,696 | — |
| Industrial Society providing employment-enterprise awareness training in schools | 16,000 | — | — | — |
| Information Technology Network—data link between Holte School, Handsworth Technical College and Austin Rover IT centre | 49,956 | — | — | — |
| Inner City Community Sports Leadership training-pilot | 5,400 | — | — | 2,500 |
| Lozells Electronic Workshop: training and low cost purchasing-servicing facility | 21,864 | 17,318 | 67,108 | 51,954 |
| MACRO Films video-film YTS training workshop | 69,045 | 41,250 | 20,465 | 153,750 |
| Opportunities Industrialization Centre (OIC): training and employment advice to alienated local people | 97,005 | — | 57,000 | 20,000 |
| Outward bound self-development scheme | 5,300 | — | — | 5,000 |
| Positive Action for training in Housing Mangement (PATH) scheme for people from ethnic minorities | 72,000 | — | — | 61,300 |
| Handsworth Technical College personal services workshop (hairdressing, care of the elderly, etc) | 58,900 | — | — | 31,500 |
| Positive Image—childcare training centre | 76,038 | 5,000 | — | 60,503 |
| Holte School/Industry Centre in conjunction with business and the Local Education Authority | 69,760 | — | — | — |
Approved projects
| Task force
| Birmingham City Council
| MSC
| Other sources
|
| Schools Outreach pilot preventive care project | 32,000 | — | — | — |
| YTS project placement officer, to develop high quality employer led placements for local voluntary sector YTS providers | 18,672, | — | 16,463 | — |
| Villa Cross Self Build—assistance with construction skills training for a group of Bangladeshis wishing to build their own houses | 59,200 | — | — | 459,300 |
| Afro-Caribbean Resource Centre—day care for elderly and creche facility | 29,000 | 9,000 | 65,300 | 49,000 |
| Handsworth Youth Crime Prevention Scheme—property marketing using CP | 1,648 | — | 54,473 | — |
| Handsworth Day Care Centre Latchkey Scheme | 5,000 | — | 24,611 | — |
| Ladworth Community Safety project—small grants scheme for local groups | 15,000 | — | — | — |
| Lozells Shops security measures | 28,500 | — | — | 1,500 |
| Police Foundation—mobile crime prevention workshop | 25,000 | — | 12,000 | 15,000 |
| Progress 2000—CP refurbishment scheme to improve nursery provision | 44,000 | 29,300 | 31,392 | — |
| Think Green—training in horticultural skills for local people and development of a garden centre as a co-operative | 54,700 | 20,000 | 32,130 | 60,000 |
| Homework Centres—bridge funding to assist under-achieving pupils in the Task Force area | 25,500 | — | — | — |
| Birmingham Area Improvement Team—security and environmental work to a residential area, involving 64 properties, to improve community safety | 149,570 | — | — | 50,000 |
| Handsworth Wood Boys School—equipment for the craft and design technology department | 2,500 | — | — | — |
| Handsworth Skills Partnerships—feasibility work | 7,500 | — | — | — |
| Prince of Wales Community Venture—capital (training) equipment | 8,400 | — | — | — |
| Villa Cross Bingo Hall—conversion into managed workspace for local businesses | 300,000 | 112,000 | — | 435,000 |
| Handsworth Employment Scheme—second capital equipment phase, also developing security services and contract cleaning businesses | 185,931 | — | — | — |
| Marcus Garvey Supplementary School—audio-visual and other equipment | 9,000 | — | — | 5,500 |
To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for The Wrekin of 20 June, how many civil servants in his Department are employed at grade 3 and above; and what is the estimated cost of discovering whether they were educated at state or private schools.
Sixty-seven. The cost was seen to be disproportionate.