Training and Enterprise Councils

HC Deb 19 January 1994 vol 235 c693W

Mr. Tipping

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what measures are in place to evaluate the effectiveness and performance of training and enterprise councils.

Miss Widdecombe

The Department undertakes regular evaluation of the range of programmes delivered by the training and enterprise councils—TECs—and assesses the contribution of the TEC movement to the performance of those programmes.

The performance of individual TECs against contract is monitored by the Department's regional offices. Information on the performance of individual TECs in delivering Employment Department programmes is used to construct inter-TEC comparison tables. A copy of these tables for 1992–93 has already been placed in the Library.