Environment Food and Rural Affairs written question – answered at on 18 March 2014.
Zac Goldsmith
Conservative, Richmond Park
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what grants his Department has made to UK conservation charities in each year since 2010.
Dan Rogerson
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
The financial systems within core DEFRA do not identify conservation charities specifically. The following table is therefore based on officials' determination of which charities out of those that have received payment from core DEFRA could be considered to be conservation charities.
The following table shows payments to these charities relating to each of the financial years 2010-11, 2011-12 and 2012-13. Information relating to 2013-14 will be available in July 2014, after the Department's accounts for 2013-14 have been audited and published.
To determine which funding was specifically a grant rather than a payment would incur disproportionate cost.
| £000 | |||
| Charity | 2010-11 | 2011-12 | 2012-13 |
| Albertine Rift Conservation Society | — | — | 2.1 |
| Arun and Rother Rivers Trust | — | 5.0 | — |
| Avon Wildlife Trust | — | 70.1 | — |
| Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust | — | 5.0 | — |
| British Trust for Conservation Volunteers | 8.3 | 1.0 | 8.0 |
| Bat Conservation Trust | 41.4 | 40.8 | 71.0 |
| Bedfordshire Cambridgeshire Northamptonshire Wildlife Trust | — | 3.7 | 6.8 |
| Botanic Gardens Conversation International | — | 146.4 | — |
| Bristol Clifton and West of England Zoological | 77.6 | 74.5 | 18.7 |
| Bristol Conservation and Science Foundation | — | — | 38.2 |
| Bristol Natural History Consortium | 11.0 | 15.0 | 16.7 |
| Buglife the Invertebrate Conservation Trust | 13.5 | 41.6 | 19.8 |
| Cheshire Wildlife Trust | — | 16.6 | 23.8 |
| Cl:aire | 68.0 | 14.0 | 133.9 |
| Collaboration for Environmental Evidence | — | — | 0.3 |
| Cornwall Wildlife Trust | — | 31.6 | 34.3 |
| Derbyshire Wildlife Trust Ltd | — | 25.9 | — |
| Devon Wildlife Trust | 27.2 | 24.0 | 0.0 |
| Dorset Wildlife Trust | — | 7.1 | 7.3 |
| Durham Wildlife Trust | 95.5 | 104.8 | 101.3 |
| Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust | 278.1 | 236.7 | 200.3 |
| Eden Rivers Trust | — | 96.8 | — |
| Essex Wildlife Trust | 5.0 | 23.0 | 3.6 |
| Falklands Conservation | 24.0 | 51.9 | 82.5 |
| Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group | 4.0 | — | — |
| Fauna and Flora International | 559.6 | 701.4 | 607.7 |
| Global Diversity Foundation | — | — | 26.7 |
| Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust Ltd | 10.0 | 15.1 | — |
| Hymettus Ltd | 42.3 | 48.3 | 6.6 |
| Marine Conservation Society | 180.0 | 85.8 | 63.8 |
| North East Wales Wildlife | 70.6 | 68.8 | 71.5 |
| North of England Zoological Society | 171.1 | 135.6 | 39.0 |
| Northumberland Wildlife Trust | — | — | 12.5 |
| Royal Society for the Protection of Birds | 906.9 | 884.3 | 726.1 |
| Royal Society Of Wildlife Trusts | — | 1,131.0 | 17.0 |
| Severn Rivers Trust | — | 94.5 | 1.6 |
| Shropshire Wildlife Trust Ltd | — | 10.0 | — |
| South Cumbria Rivers Trust | — | 16.0 | — |
| Southern Sea Fisheries Committee | 17.4 | — | — |
| Staffordshire Wildlife Trust | — | 18.4 | — |
| Surrey Wildlife Trust | — | 12.8 | — |
| Sussex Wildlife Trust | 2.6 | . | — |
| Tale Valley Trust | — | — | 1.5 |
| Thames River Restoration Trust | — | 5.0 | — |
| The Calder and Colne Rivers Trust | — | — | 26.5 |
| The Endangered Wildlife Trust | — | 50.0 | — |
| The Frog life Trust | — | — | 2.9 |
| The Global Diversity Foundation | 186.2 | 188.5 | 98.0 |
| The Grasslands Trust UK | 0.0 | — | — |
| The Lune Rivers Trust | — | 5.0 | — |
| The National Trust | 321.6 | 115.7 | 81.3 |
| The Shark Trust | — | 1.0 | — |
| The Thomas Phillips Price Trust | 1.2 | 1.2 | 1.2 |
| The Wandle Trust | — | 5.0 | — |
| The Waterways Trust | — | 2.0 | — |
| The Wetland Trust | 8.6 | — | 0.8 |
| The Wildflower Ark | 5.0 | — | — |
| The Wildlife Trusts | 5.0 | — | — |
| The Woodland Trust | 2.0 | 2.8 | 1.6 |
| Trent Rivers Trust | — | 5.0 | — |
| Waterwise Project | 353.9 | — | — |
| Westcountry Rivers Trust | — | 95.0 | 0.1 |
| Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society | 15.2 | 12.0 | 2.4 |
| Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust | 132.2 | 39.6 | 89.0 |
| Wildlife Trust For Birmingham and Black Country | — | 46.8 | — |
| Wiltshire Wildlife Trust | 3.8 | 24.8 | — |
| World Wildlife Fund | 54.7 | 3.9 | — |
| Wye and Usk Foundation | — | 5.0 | — |
| Zoological Society of London | 432.0 | 800.9 | 725.7 |
| Total | 4,135.5 | 5,666.7 | 3,372.1 |
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