§ 49. Mr. SteinbergTo ask the Secretary of State for Education which companies at present sponsor city technology colleges; and how many governorships those companies hold.
§ Mr. ForthThe following private sector sponsors have committed sums of £0.2 million or more to individual city technology colleges or to the development of the programme:
- ADT Group plc
- BAT Industries plc
- Boots Company plc
- British Record Industry Trust
- Cable & Wireless plc
- Mr. H. de Capell Brooke
- Dixons Group plc
- Sir Harry Djanogly
- Esmee Fairburn Foundation
- Findlay Publications plc
- Forte plc
- Haberdashers' Livery Company
- Mr. J. Hall
- Hanson plc
- Sir Philip and Lady Harris Charitable Trust
- IMI plc
- Kodak plc
- John Laing plc
- Landau Foundation
- Sir Geoffrey Leigh
- Mr. D. Lewis
- Lucas plc
- Mercers' Company
- Safeway plc
- Southwark Diocesan Board of Education
- Tarmac plc
- Unisys Ltd.
- Vardy Foundation
- Wellcome Foundation
- Weston Foundation
- Wolfson Foundation
- Mr. H. Wong
The major sponsors of each college form a trust which has strategic control of the management of the college. The trustees are responsible for electing a governing body, whose members will normally include representatives of sponsors, but no central record is held of the current composition of each governing body.