To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what was the total amount of funding given by central Government Departments to voluntary bodies in the financial year 1993–94; and if he will make a statement. [36345]
Central Government funding of voluntary organisations in 1993–94 amounted to £3,567 million. Of this, £2,955 million was payments to housing associations and £612 million went directly to voluntary organisations to support the provision of services and a wide range of activities and projects. This latter figure shows that Government funding of the voluntary sector excluding housing associations increased in cash terms by 9 per cent. and in real terms by 5 per cent. over the level of provision in 1992–93.The amount spent by each Department in 1993–94 was as follows:
| £ | |
| Attorney General's Office (Crown Prosecution Service) | |
| Direct grants | 20,000 |
| Agriculture, Fisheries and Food | |
| Direct grants | 242,500 |
| Defence | |
| Direct grants | 18,919,259 |
| £ | |
| Education | |
| Direct grants | 5,907,649 |
| Employment | |
| Direct grants | 50,057,200 |
| Equal Opportunities Commission | 38,108 |
| Environment | |
| Direct grants | 27,981,147 |
| Countryside Commission | 4,178,000 |
| English Nature | 804,183 |
| Housing Corporations | 2,510,000,000 |
| Rural Development Commission | 4,743,870 |
| Urban Development Corporations | 11,036,000 |
| Urban Programme | 28,305,927 |
| Foreign and Commonwealth Office | |
| Direct grants | 3,594,248 |
| Health | |
| Direct grants | 49,433,555 |
| Alcohol and drug misuse | 2,300,000 |
| Health Education Authority | 1,250,000 |
| Home Office | |
| Direct grants | 59,204,588 |
| Commission for Racial Equality | 5,213,000 |
| Lord Chancellor's Department | |
| Direct grants | 182,500 |
| Legal Aid Board | 942,052 |
| National Heritage | |
| Direct grants | 832,420 |
| Sports Council | 20,218,645 |
| Northern Ireland Office | |
| Direct grants | 19,764,035 |
| Housing associations | 49,292,631 |
| Sports Council for Northern Ireland | 728,484 |
| Youth Council for Northern Ireland | 1,421,339 |
| Overseas Development Administration | |
| Direct grants | 158,499,755 |
| Scottish Office | |
| Direct grants | 24,230,855 |
| Highland and Islands Enterprise | 1,075,000 |
| Housing associations | 273,302,000 |
| Mental Illness Specific Grant | 5,141,834 |
| Scottish Arts Council | 176,164 |
| Scottish National Heritage | 2,900,000 |
| Sports Council for Scotland | 1,897,932 |
| Urban Programme | 48,062,000 |
| Social Security | |
| Direct grants | 13,109,895 |
| Trade and Industry | |
| Direct grants | 14,434,830 |
| Transport | |
| Direct grants | 422,000 |
| Welsh Office | |
| Direct grants | 14,070,944 |
| Cardiff Bay Development Corporation | 285,000 |
| Development Board for Rural Wales | 575,093 |
| Flexible Community Care | 1,602,508 |
| Housing for Wales (Tai Cymru) | 122,082,000 |
| Rural Initiative | 1,705,984 |
| £ | |
| Sports Council for Wales | 1,645,080 |
| Urban Programme | 4,631,691 |
| Wales Tourist Board | 287,140 |
| Welsh Development Agency | 398,000 |
| Grand total | 3,567,097,045 |