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Consultants

Mr. Milburn: To ask the Secretary of State for National Heritage if she will list the actions her Department has taken on each of the recommendations contained in the Cabinet Office report on the Government's use of external consultants. [10159]

Mr. Sproat: The Cabinet Office report on the Government's use of external consultants had 34 recommendations. Six of these relate to other Government Departments--recommendations numbers 4, 5, 7, 10, 19 and 21.

In respect of the remaining 28, my Department has implemented four in full--recommendations numbers 3, 6, 9 and 20; the rest are to be implemented in the context of a new procurement strategy on which my Department is currently working.

Staff

Mr. Hain: To ask the Secretary of State for National Heritage how many (a) permanent and (b) non-permanent staff there have been in (i) her Department and (ii) executive agencies of her Department in each year since 1992. [9630]

Mr. Sproat [holding answer 18 December 1996]: The number of permanent and non-permanent staff within the Department of National Heritage and agencies since 1992 is shown in the table:

	Permanent	Non-Permanent
DNH
1992-93	264	4
1993-94	317	18
1994-95	337	22
1995-96	355	15
1996-97	353	8
Historic Royal Palaces
1992-93	322	109
1993-94	368	145
1994-95	423	129
1995-96	(2)312	159
1996-97	316	202
The Royal Parks
1993-94	272	12
1994-95	266	19
1995-96	263	18
1996-97	242	15

(2) The Historic Royal Palaces figure decreased between 1994-95 and 1995-96 due to contracting out of 70 warding staff at Hampton Court.

The Royal Parks/Royal Parks Constabulary are unable to provide details of staff for 1992-93 because they did not become an agency until 1993.

Mr. Donohoe: To ask the Secretary of State for National Heritage if she will list for her Department (a) how many people in total are employed, (b) how many of the total number of staff are (i) male and (ii) female and (c) how many (I) men and (II) women are employed on a (1) full-time and (2) part-time basis.[9483]

Mr. Sproat: The current staff in post for the Department of National Heritage is:

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	Full time	Part time	Total staff
Male	185	1	186
Female	169	6	175
Total	354	7	361

National Lottery

Sir Irvine Patnick: To ask the Secretary of State for National Heritage, pursuant to her answer of 6 November, Official Report, column 533, what funds have been allocated to Sheffield-based charities by the National Lottery Charities Board since its inception; if she will identify the charities and voluntary organisations receiving each amount; and if she will make a statement.[10506]

Mr. Sproat: Since my hon. Friend's earlier question, the National Lottery Charities Board has awarded grants under its third grants round to almost 2,000 organisations across the United Kingdom. Of these, 30 are based in Sheffield. This means that a total of 88 grants, worth over £6.45 million, have been made by the National Lottery Charities Board since its inception to organisations based in Sheffield. The details of the awards concerned are as follows:

Grants made by the National Lottery Charities Board to charities and voluntary organisations based in Sheffield

	£
Abbeydale Youth Project	50,100
African Women's Health Group	64,025
Ashiana	9,868
Awaaz Asian Women's Training Project	28,000
Azaardgi--Asian Women's Training Project (Freedom)	3,276
Black Action Self-Help-Mentoring Project	92,812
Black Justice Project	78,000
Black Media Training Trust	137,299
Breaking Bounds	27,218
Brightside Community Project	22,760
Castle Advice Service	1,220
Castle Advice Service	70,184
Chapelgreen-one-parent-in-need-group (c.o.p.i.n.g)	1,380
Cot-Age-Child Safety and Nursery Equipment	30,757
Cruse Bereavement Care	23,459
DART--Homelink Project	300,000
Family Support Group	2,850
Firth Park Advice Centre	135,784
Firth Park Computer Club	7,420
Granville Road Housing Project	10,000
Green City Action	69,714
Handy Hands Group	2,500
Haven House Project	28,375
Heeley and District Community Transport Organisation	24,000
Heeley Health Project	103,199
Herdings Centre Association	20,000
Highfield Childrens Playbase	38,000
House of Help	1,860
Law Centres Federation	93,097
Manor Rights and Advice Service	42,642
Manor Training and Resource Centre Ltd.	121,000
Maypole	102,000
McMurphy's	135,742
Middlewood Citizens Advice Bureau	160,223
Mosborough Citizens Advice Bureau	85,262
Network Housing and Care Ltd.	71,570
Nomad Nomore Community Furniture Store	134,000
Norfolk Park Domestic Violence Project	57,879
Norfolk Park Women and Childrens Centre	10,150
North Sheffield Federation for the Disabled Self-Help Group	47,844
Northern Refugee Centre	123,129
Osteoporosis 2000	267,148
Pakistan Muslim Centre	121,427
Playschemes, Activities and Recreation for Kids	160,008
Remington Youth and Community Centre	100,371
Roshni-Asians Womens Resource Centre	75,000
Sadacca	150,000
Sharrow Citizens Advice Bureau	21,758
Sheffield African Caribbean Mental Health Association	25,000
Sheffield Association for People with Cerebral Palsy	76,475
Sheffield Association for People with Cerebral Palsy	24,636
Sheffield Association for the Voluntary Teaching of English	108,235
Sheffield Cathedral Breakfast/Archer Project	69,540
Sheffield Childrens Centre	35,000
Sheffield Chinese Community	143,586
Sheffield Citizen Advocacy	140,563
Sheffield Citizens Advice Bureaux Debt Support Unit	68,736
Sheffield Community Transport	190,000
Sheffield Deaf Childrens Society	53,804
Sheffield Dial-a-ride	67,960
Sheffield Gayphone	10,828
Sheffield Gingerbread	3,116
Sheffield Law Centre	7,000
Sheffield Mencap	100,246
Sheffield NASS	1,654
Sheffield Newpin	99,378
Sheffield Occupational Health Project	85,555
Sheffield Out of School Network	70,318
Sheffield Reclamation Limited	19,290
Sheffield Sickle Cell Anaemia and Thalassaemia Foundation	168,358
Sheffield Women's Aid	178,125
Sheffield Womens Cultural Club	121,288
Sheffield Young Carers Project	161,906
Shiregreen Tranx Self-Help Group	5,000
Somali Mental Health Project (SMHP)	183,207
Somali Special Needs Scheme	123,327
South West Area Sitting Service	25,250
Support Dogs	37,722
The Ethel Trust	122,741
The Flower Estate Dream Scheme	27,664
The Ruth Hayman Trust	11,250
The Sheffield Club for the Hard of Hearing	1,000
Trinity Day Care Trust	21,000
Woodcraft Folk--Venturer Camp Committee	7,007
Worthwhile Occupational and Recreational Krafts Ltd. (WORK)	75,000
Wybourn Youth Trust	247,833
Young Carers Support Group	3,000
Young Women's Housing Project	66,996

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Millennium Projects, Wales

Mr. Ainger: To ask the Secretary of State for National Heritage how much Millennium Commission grant aid has been offered to projects in Wales to date; how many projects this figure covers; and what is grant aid per head of population in Wales. [7616]

Mrs. Virginia Bottomley [holding answer 16 December 1996]: The Millennium Commission has supported eight capital projects in Wales, two capital projects which cover England and Wales, and four

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projects which cover the whole of the UK. Of the eight capital projects supported specifically in Wales, the total grant aid to date is £92,824,028. Of the projects which cover more than one country, £11.2 million has been allocated to Wales, making a total capital projects allocation of £104,024,028. The commission has also offered grant to six millennium award schemes. These grants are allocated in response to applications. Four will cover the whole of the UK and one scheme for £365,134 is specifically targeted at Wales. Thus, the total grant allocation is £104,389,162. Working on the basis that the population of Wales is 2,906,500, grant aid per head is £35.92.

LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT

Statutory Instruments

Mr. Gordon Prentice: To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department if he will make statutory instruments available on the Internet. [10407]

Mr. Freeman: I have been asked to reply.

With effect from the first printed statutory instrument of 1997, all new statutory instruments will be placed on the Internet within 15 working days of publication in printed form, at the following address: http://www.hmso.gov.uk/stat.htm.

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