To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment how many voluntary agencies, who in 1989 received Government funding under section 73 of the Housing Act 1985, did not do so in the current year.

Fourteen. However, the following 23 organisations received section 73 grant for the first time this year:

• Brighton Housing Trust
• Centrepoint (Soho)
• Chester Lodgings and Support Group
• Coventry Day Centre
• Housing Aid for Youth, Blyth
• Key House Project, Keighley
• Leicester Night Shelter
• Lodgers
• The London Connection
• St. Martin in the Fields Social Care Unit
• The National Foster Care Association
• Newark Young Single Homeless Trust
• North Lambeth Day Centre
• The Passage Day Centre, Westminster
• The Portsmouth Housing Trust
• Reading Emergency Accommodation Project
• Riverpoint Single Homeless Ltd., London
• St Basil's Centre, Birmingham
• The Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul, London
• Thames Reach, London
• Threshold, Hammersmith
• West End Co-ordinated Voluntary Services for Homeless Single People, London
• Yeldall Christian Centre.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what further criteria were used to determine which voluntary agencies received funding in the current year in addition to section 73 of the Housing Act 1985.

I refer the hon. Member to the reply that I gave to my hon. Friend the Member for Bedfordshire, North (Sir T. Skeet), on 5 June, at column 485.