To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment (1) if he will make a statement on the millennium volunteers programme; [67236](2) what plans he has to extend the millennium volunteers scheme to Leicester; [67237](3) if he will list the
(a) areas and (b) projects which have been involved in the millennium volunteers programme to date. [67238]
My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State and I launched Millennium Volunteers on 21 January. We announced that the programme will have a budget of £47.75 million; £12.75 from the windfall levy and an additional £35 million for the period 1999–2000 to 2001–02 which has been secured through the Comprehensive Spending Review. We have also published guidance inviting organisations to bid for funds to run Millennium Volunteers in England. It will be open to organisations in Leicester to make applications for
| Area | Organisation | Contracted/in discussion |
| Inner city areas of Bradford and Shipley | Bradford Council for Voluntary Service | In discussion |
| Cambridge | Youth Action Cambridge | Contracted |
| Cambridgeshire | Cambridgeshire Association of Youth Clubs | Contracted |
| Exeter | British Trust for Conservation Volunteers | Contracted |
| Herefordshire | Hereford and Worcester Rural Community Council | Contracted |
| Liverpool | John Moores University | Contracted |
| London Borough of Southwark | Community Service Volunteers | Contracted |
| London Borough of Tower Hamlets | Voluntary Action Tower Hamlets | Contracted |
| Greater Manchester | Prince's Trust Volunteers | Contracted |
| Newcastle | The National Trust | Contracted |
| Nottingham | City of Nottingham | Contracted |
| Sunderland | Community Service Volunteers | Contracted |
| Hastings and Rother | Sussex Police | In discussion |