To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what schemes funded by his Department were instituted in Hartlepool constituency to provide young people with (a) activities and (b) somewhere to socialise in the last five years. (130898)

Youth programmes of a diversionary and/or development nature which have been funded by DfES, and instituted in Hartlepool, in the last five years include Children’s Fund, Local Network Fund, the Neighbourhood Support Fund (NSF), Positive Activities for Young People (PAYP), Millennium Volunteers (MV), Youth Opportunity and Youth Capital Funds. Local authority youth services and the voluntary and community sector also run youth provision with the aim of providing personal, social and educational development for young people. All activities listed provide opportunities for young people to socialise.