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Home Office

Answer

Mrs. Lait: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many applications for projects the Department has received under the ChangeUp Programme; what the total value is of the projects so submitted; how many projects have been approved; how much and what percentage of the budget for the programme has been committed; and how much money has been disbursed. [219022] Fiona Mactaggart: ChangeUp is a capacity building framework for the voluntary and community sector, launched in June 2004 after extensive consultation with the sector. It is underpinned by an £80 million initial investment programme by Government available until March 2006. The £80 million initial investment by Government have now been enhanced by an additional £70 million for the financial years 2006-07 and 2007-08. Initial activity has been slow due to the need to put in place sustainable sector led decision making mechanisms. Good progress is now being made on the delivery of the ChangeUp investment plan. Local and Regional Spend £52.4million (65 per cent. of the total investment) has been allocated to local and regional activity to support voluntary and community sector infrastructure and capacity building. This money has been committed to the Government Offices for distribution. National Spend £1.25million of national spend was committed through an early spend programme. This was heavily oversubscribed with 506 applications submitted in open bidding. Twenty two projects were successful with an additional five projects also commissioned. £1 million has been disbursed. £24million of the main spend programme was allocated to national activity. £4.9 million of this money has been committed for/seven projects and £0.8 million has been disbursed. Overall Programme £57.4 million (72 per cent. of the £80 million investment has been committed. The 2003-04 spend was £2.2 million and the 2004-05 spend to date is £6.9 million making a total spend of £9.1 million at the end of January 2005.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

432 c1787-8W;432 c1783W; 219022

Session

2004-05

Subjects

Applications Finance Investment Infrastructure Voluntary organisations Voluntary work

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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