Community Service Volunteers

Tim Loughton
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.

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

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