HC Deb 25 July 1991 vol 195 cc872-3W
Mr. Leighton

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will list the ways by which training and enterprise councils are accountable to Parliament.

Mr. Jackson

I refer the hon. Member to the reply I gave on 24 July,Official Report column 613.

Mr. McLeish

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish in the form of the requirement set out in the training and enterprise council operating agreement the number of youth training starts and the number of youth training trainees in training at the end of the four-weekly period as set out in the schedule of management information (a) for the period covering January 1991 and (b) for each training and enterprise council.

Mr. Jackson

Reliable training and enterprise council level information is available only from April 1991.

Mr. McLeish

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what was the result of the findings of the recent audit of five TECs as regards the issue of new guidelines about operating surpluses and their use.

Mr. Jackson

The audit of the first five training and enteprise councils was not concerned in particular with the use of operating surpluses. The TEC contract states clearly that any operating surpluses will be used by the TEC to further the aims of its corporate and business plan.