Business Start-up Scheme (Hansard, 31 January 1995)

§ Mr. Pearson
To ask the Secretary of State for Employment which TEC areas(a) will and (b) will not provide business start-up programme type support in 1995–96; and if he will make a statement.

§ Mr. Paice
A list of training and enterprise council areas where there will be direct business start-up support596W in 1995–96 from the single regeneration budget is shown in the table.
Start-up support will also be available through the training for work programme, from TECs' own reserves and from the Prince's Youth Business Trust which receives funding from the Department, but the TEC areas concerned cannot readily be identified. For this reason, it is not possible to supply a list of any areas which may be entirely without such support.
The Areas with direct business start-up support from the single regeneration budget, 1995–96

Avon TEC

AZTEC (Kingston upon Thames)

Barnsley/Doncaster TEC

Bedfordshire TEC

Birmingham TEC

Bradford and District TEC

Calderdale and Kirklees TEC

CENTEC (Central London)

CEWTEC (Wirral)

CILNTEC (Inner London North)

County Durham TEC

Coventry and Warwickshire TEC

Cumbria TEC

Devon and Cornwall TEC

Dorset TEC

Dudley TEC

ELTEC (East Lancashire)

Gloucestershire TEC

Greater Peterborough TEC

Hampshire TEC

HAWTEC (Hereford and Worcester)

Hertfordshire TEC

Humberside TEC

LAWTEC (Lancashire West)

Leeds TEC

Lincolnshire TEC

London East TEC

Manchester TEC

Merseyside TEC

METROTEC (Wigan)

Norfolk and Waveney TEC

North Derbyshire TEC

North London TEC

North Nottinghamshire TEC

North West London TEC

North Yorkshire TEC

Northamptonshire TEC

Northumberland TEC

QUALITEC (St. Helens)

Rochdale TEC

Rotherham TEC

Sandwell TEC

Sheffield TEC

Shropshire TEC

SOLOTEC (Bromley)

Somerset TEC

South East Cheshire TEC

South Thames TEC

Southern Derbyshire TEC

Staffordshire TEC

Sunderland City TEC

Sussex TEC

Teesside TEC

Tyneside TEC

Wakefield TEC

West London TEC

Wolverhampton TEC

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§ Mr. Pearson
To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what plans his Department has for ensuring that unemployed people who wish to start their own businesses have an equal opportunity to do so following the placing of the business start-up scheme in the single regeneration budget.

§ Mr. Paice
Support for unemployed people who wish to start their own business will continue. The single regeneration budget projects recently approved will provide over 18,000 start-up opportunities. Training and enterprise councils are being encouraged to take advantage of arrangements which allow people in training for work to pursue self-employment and TECs may fund further start-up help through their own reserves. We also continue to contribute to the work of the Prince's Youth Business Trust which helps young people set up in business through the provision of grants and/or loans.