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Written question asked by Baroness Lestor of Eccles (Labour) on Monday, 15 January 1996, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 15 January 1996. It was answered by Jeremy Hanley (Conservative) on Monday, 15 January 1996 on behalf of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

Question

If he will list (a) the amount of grants to NGOs from the ODA and (b) the amount of UK aid money disbursed through NGOs in the last year for which figures are available. - Inc tables.

Answer

Miss Lestor: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list (a) the amount of grants to NGOs from the ODA and (b) the amount of UK aid money disbursed through NGOs in the last year for which figures are available. [8946] Mr. Hanley: All expenditure from the ODA to non-governmental organisations, NGOs, is provided on a grant basis. The sum of all grants for 1994-95 made by the Overseas Development Administration to United Kingdom NGOs for work in developing countries was £173,124,136, as detailed in the table. The comparable figure in 1992-93 was £141,791,127, in 1993-94 it was £148,610,155. In addition, we made grants to United Kingdom NGOs for work in eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union-- in 1994-95 amounting to £11,989,655. The comparable figure in 1992-93 was £5,634,899; in 1993-94 it was £9,839,600. United Kingdom NGOs also draw substantially on European Community aid programmes to which we contribute. The table provides details of all ODA grants in 1994-95. 1994-95 Direct grants to United Kingdom Non-governmental Organisations {1}(excluding Eastern Europe) _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Voluntary Organisation Amount of direct grant awarded in financial year {2}1994-95 ACORD 2,282,748 Action Disability and Development 137,290 Action Health 2000 51,382 Action Aid 2,945,706 Afghan Aid 1,150,000 Africa Now 147,691 Africa Resource Trust 100,000 Africa Soc Int and Com Law 23,750 Aro-Asian Jour of Nematology 180 Aga Khan Foundation 978,577 AHRTAG 414,697 AMAR Appeal 85,000 AMREF 398,535 APTT Trust UK 7,836 Association for Better Land Husbandry 167,684 Association of Pioneer Rescue Officers 114,000 Associated Country Women World 13,891 Association of Commonwealth University 2,490,462 Bernt Carlsson Trust 116,000 Birdlife International 189,273 Britain Afghanistan Trust 54,000 Britain Nepal Medical Trust 90,414 British Direct Aid (UK) 228,577 British Executive Service Overseas 754,699 British Red Cross Society 17,690,732 British Refugee Council 10,000 British Society Pop Studies 3,145 Business in the Community 5,000 Busoga Trust 98,715 CAFOD 7,803,959 Calcutta Rescue Fund 1,737 Calcutta Tercentenary Trust 10,849 Cambodia Trust 79,134 Canon Collins Education Trust SA 17,037 Canterbury Christ Church IPO 87,039 CARE 10,988,910 Care for the Wild 50,000 Catholic Inst International Relations 1,952,813 Charities Aid Foundation 18,366 Charities Evaluation Services 19,396 Childhope 112,331 Christian Aid 7,542,606 Christian Children's Fund (GB) 125,754 Christian Engineers in Development 24,690 Christian Outreach 294,168 Christians Abroad 180,747 Church Missionary Society 20,902 Co-op For Development 176,115 CODA International Training 178,960 Commonwealth Human Ecology 58,762 Commonwealth TUC 113,492 Concern Universal 60,777 Concern Worldwide 3,319,941 Conservation Foundation 9,189 Cranfield Institute of Technology 44,055 Cusichaca Project Trust 23,668 Durham-Lesotho Link 20,913 Earthwatch Europe 3,091 Education for Development 1,180 Education Partners Overseas 58,753 FARM 516,572 Feed the Children 341,145 Feed the Minds 23,686 Find Your Feet 9,100 Food for Hungry International 449,152 Friends of Urambo and Mwanhala 8,626 Friends of ASSEFA 38,197 Friends of Conservation 27,468 GOAL 1,291,949 Gordon Barclay Vietnam Fund 7,663 Gurkha Welfare Trust 296,233 HALO Trust 1,912,561 Harvest Help 30,439 Health Aid Moyo 55,999 Health Aid-UK 66,840 Health Projects Abroad 49,724 Health Unlimited 703,958 Hedley Roberts Trust 2,804 Help International 98,105 HelpAge International 298,148 Help The Aged 286,906 Holy Trinity Church Middlesex 13,000 Ideas Aid International UK 20,000 Impact Foundation 25,355 India Development Group 85,750 Institute of Development Studies 3,171,052 Institute of Data Processing Management 471 Institute for Animal Health 93,396 International Year of Shelter 192,948 Intermediate Technology Development 3,809,370 International Bee Research Association 22,652 International Cent Agroforestry 100,000 International Childcare Trust 59,978 International Children's Trust 11,619 International Christian Relief 54,166 International Family Health 42,074 International Health Exchange 31,798 International Refugee Trust 34,750 International Rescue Corps 3,672 International Extension College 151,372 International HIV/AIDS Alliance 216,400 INTRAC 60,429 IPPF 9,135,018 Islamic Relief 59,946 Joint Mission Hospital Equipment Board 471,563 John Innes Institute 27,075 Kerala Federation for the Blind 6,072 King Mehendra Trust 78,368 Kurdish Cultural Society 10,040 Lasallian Projects 7,504 Legal Assistance Trust 60,000 Leonard Cheshire Foundation 55,012 Leprosy Mission 9,988 Leprosy Mission (Scotland) 23,760 Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine 1,794,324 Living Earth 169,595 Marie Stopes International 2,018,930 Marlborough Brandt Group 72 Medecins Sans Frontieres 1,382,823 Medical Aid for Iraq 280,000 Medical Aid for Palestinians 340,908 Medical Emergency Relief International 1,253,902 Medical Research Council 1,812,906 Methodist Church Overseas 2,264 Mines Advisory Group 1,038,944 Money for Madagascar 10,625 Nairobi Hospice Charitable Trust 35,821 National Children's Homes 9,400 New Economics Foundation 15,685 New Hope Rural Community Trust 2,956 Ockenden Venture 150,341 One World Action 80,225 One World Broadcasting Trust 44,000 Opportunity Trust 78,453 Overseas Development Institute (ODI) 2,040,608 OXFAM 13,838,676 Pattaya Orphanage Trust 18,110 Plan International 1,616,591 Plunkett Foundation 64,541 Population Concern 543,016 Project Ploughshare 39,999 Project Rehab Malawi 1,741 Prospect Burma 11,400 Red R 56,950 Refugee Council 8,892 Richmond Fellowship International 6,640 Rio Maza 14,742 RNIB 315 Royal Agricultural Society 4,537 Royal Botanic Gardens Kew 44,739 Royal Commonwealth Society 186,576 Ryder Cheshire Mission 82,000 South Africa Townships Health Fund 66,000 Salvation Army 82,010 Save The Children Fund 20,529,172 Scottish Catholic International Aid Fund 158,401 Scottish Crop Research Institute 60,685 Scottish Development Education Centre 7,250 Scottish Education Action for Development 30,002 Scottish Natural Heritage 9,954 Send A Cow 29,300 Sid-Vale Africa Link 1,415 Silsoe College 15,298 Silsoe Research Institute 593,185 Skillshare Africa 1,584,120 SOS Sahel International 777,156 Southeast Asian Outreach 84,959 TACADE 23,482 Tear Fund 857,474 Thomson Foundation 28,181 Tools for Self Reliance 14,790 Traidcraft Exchange 451,504 Trax Programme Support 27,579 Tropical Health and Education Trust 64,949 Uganda Society for Disabled Children 104,703 UK Committee for UNICEF 2,910,287 UK Found for the Peoples of the South Pacific 225,963 UKJAID 2,475 United Nations Association Int Service 909,885 University of Warwick 27,104 VetAid 98,480 Village Service Trust 10,870 Vision Aid Overseas 29,737 Voluntary Service Overseas 18,208,167 War on Want 71,906 WaterAid 902,342 Wells for India 21,592 Womenkind 113,340 World Conservation Monitoring 67,163 World Conservation Union 37,563 World University Service 765,931 World Vision of Britain 2,371,522 World Wildlife Fund 2,100,774 Y-Care International 415,318 YES International 91,470 You and Me 32,700 Youth With A Mission 17,140 Zimbabwe Trust 61,600 Zoological Society of London 32,000 Totals 173,124,136 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. {1} Organisations registered as a charity with the Charity Commissioners in England or the Inland Revenue in Scotland. {2} This represents expenditure channelled through NGOs for their own programmes and for development activities and emergency relief work undertaken on behalf of the Overseas Development Administration. It includes some research work where this is implemented by institutions which are within the definition of NGO given above. 1994-95 Direct payments to non-governmental organisations for work in eastern Europe _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Voluntary organisation Amount of direct grant awarded in financial year 1994-95 ADRA 27,700 Aga Khan Foundation 1,190,000 BEARR Trust 9,780 Bosnia Aid Comm of Oxford 50,000 Brit Helsinki Human Rights Group 1,557 British Institute International and Comparative Law 191,637 British Association of Central Eastern Europe 4,167 British Executive Service 397,558 British Hungarian Association 20,000 British Red Cross Society 1,825,270 CARE 190,180 Charities Aid Foundation 808,086 Charities Evaluation Services 15,823 Christian Aid 75,000 Elam Ministries 262,000 Fauna and Flora Preservation Society 2,200 Feed the Children 718,430 Help International 70,000 Institute of Development Studies 530 Inter Action 45,000 International Waterfowl and Wetland Res 10,724 IPPF 59,861 Joint Mission Hospital Equipment Board 60,207 Marie Stopes International 567,700 Medecins Sans Frontieres 236,511 Medical Emergency Relief International 307,792 National Institute Agricultural Botany 143,265 National Trust 1,014 Ockenden Venture 34,000 OXFAM 1,102,500 Plunkett Foundation 367,812 Prison Reform International 9,453 Royal Agricultural College 26,435 Russian European Trust 8,656 Save The Children Fund 362,296 Scottish Agricultural College 301,627 Scottish Books for Romania 3,000 Scottish European Aid 213,700 Scottish Vocational Education Council 23,454 Silsoe Research Institute 35,811 Task Force Albania 25,200 Tear Fund 120,000 Thomson Foundation 311,958 UK Committee for UNICEF 1,100,000 University of Warwick 1,051 Voluntary Service Overseas 283,000 Warchild 97,000 Westminster Foundation for Democracy 16,729 World Conservation Monitoring 33,072 World Vision of Britain 200,000 World Wildlife Fund 2,600 YES International 18,309 Totals 11,989,655 _________________________________________________________________________________________________.

Type
Written question
Reference
269 c358-63W;269 c357-62W; 8946
Session
1995-96
Contains statistics
Yes
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