Trade Union Funding

Mr. Heald
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what funding his Department has given to individual trade unions in the last three years.

Jim Fitzpatrick
The DTI has paid grants totalling £1.5 million to trade unions on trade union led projects in the last three years.

Mr. Hoban
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry pursuant to the answer of 19 December 2006, Official Report, column 1909W, on Unions 21, what the name was of the project for which payment was made to Unions 21 under the Strategic Partnership Fund; and what the purpose was of the payment.

Jim Fitzpatrick
The name of the project was ‘Moving Partnership On’. The payment was for activities undertaken on behalf of the project. This included the running of five regional workshops, which were attended by over 200 people from over 120 organisations.

Mr. Hoban
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry pursuant to the answer of 19 December 2006, Official Report, column 1909W, on Unions 21, what the name was of the conference in respect of which payment was made to Unions 21 for its attendance; and what was the purpose of the payment.

Jim Fitzpatrick
A DTI official attended a Unions 21 conference titled ‘Government and the Unions, new deal or no deal’, for which there was a charge.