Community Service Volunteers

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much her Department has (a) budgeted for and (b) paid to the Community Service Volunteers in the 2006-07 financial year; and what the figures were in 2005-06. (108455)

The amounts budgeted for and paid to the Community Service Volunteers (CSV) organisation by the Department of Health is given in the following table.

*Payments budgeted and paid to CSV*
£
	2005-06	2006-07
	Budgeted	Paid	Budgeted	Paid
Capital volunteering	2,640,000	2,640,000	3,746,000	3,746,000
Opportunities for volunteering	250,000	250,000	243,000	243,000
Section 64 grant	12,300	12,300	30,000	22,500
Total	2,902,300	2,902,300	4,019,000	265,500

Volume 455: debated on Tuesday 16 January 2007