§ Mr. ByersTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if she will list for each training and enterprise council its budget for 1996–97 and the total national budget for 1996–97. [40753]
§ Mr. Paice[holding answer 16 October 1996]: The Budget made available to each training and enterprise council in England by the Department for 1996–97, is shown in the following table. The responsibility for TECs in Wales lies with my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Wales.
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TEC budgets 1996–97 £ South East Hampshire 30,613,244 Heart of England 12,553,959 Isle of Wight 3,425,755 Kent 37,316,989 Milton Keynes and North Bucks. 12,378,636 Surrey 11,783,484 Sussex 23,321,317 Thames Valley Enterprise 32,743,951 London AZTEC 12,911,673 CENTEC 39,613,016 CILNTEC 20,079,556 London East 33,842,707 North London 20,951,858 North West London 11,521,119 SOLOTEC 32,091,223 West London 19,647,823 Eastern Bedfordshire 12,813,995 CAMBSTEC 8,501,107 Essex 32,464,679 Greater Peterborough 11,812,797 Hertfordshire 19,218,027 Norfolk and Waveney 23,012,460 Suffolk 15,471,411 South West Devon and Cornwall 44,193,093 Dorset 15,981,316 Gloucestershire 14,483,472 Somerset 12,319,729 WESTEC 29,171,124 Wiltshire 11,430,830 West Midlands Birmingham 35,805,764 Central England 9,455,354 Coventry and Warwickshire 24,591,969 Dudley 9,644,020 HAWTEC 12,693,078 Sandwell 12,529,198 Shropshire 13,690,389 Staffordshire 30,152,515 Walsall 7,682,769 Wolverhampton 10,285,694 East Midlands Greater Nottingham 18,953,357 Leicester 23,458,251 Lincolnshire 25,684,831 North Derbyshire 11,228,429 North Nottinghamshire 17,727.529 Northamptonshire 13,683,056 Southern Derbyshire 17,766,331
TEC budgets 1996–97 £ Yorkshire and the Humber Bamsley and Doncaster 21,921,110 Bradford and District 16,938,463 Calderdale and Kirklees 19,044,942 Humberside 33,504,278 Leeds 19,450,577 North Yorkshire 17,094,843 Rotherham 11,019,135 Sheffield 20,200,688 Wakefield 10,573,996 North West Bolton and Bury 14,644,497 Cumbria 18,622,134 Eltec (East Lancs) 19,446,635 Lawtec (Lancs West) 27,530,418 Manchester 41,860,974 Metrotec Ltd. (Wigan) 10,501,214 Normidtec 16,020,122 Oldham 9,047,116 Rochdale 8,971,483 South and East Cheshire 14,087,755 Stockport/High Peak 11,685,608 Merseyside Cewtec 20,138,333 Merseyside 49,904,319 St. Helens (Qualitec) 8,592,371 North East County Durham 24,371,817 Northumberland 13,155,902 Sunderland City 15,895,573 Teesside 30,693,260 Tyneside 36,788,782 England 11,462,409,229 Budgets as at August 1996. TEC Budgets comprise: Youth Programmes, FE Development and Competitiveness Fund.
Carry over from 1995–96 Contract of Careers Guidance and Careers Libraries, Work Experience pre-16, Training for Work (TfW), Pre-Vocational Pilots, Employer Investment in People, Out of School Childcare Initiative, Skills Challenge, Skills for Small Businesses, Performance Related Funding, Jobmatch, Management Fee.
YP—Youth Training, Modern Apprenticeships and Funding Pilots includes Accelerated Modern Apprenticeships carry over from 1995–96 Contract and excludes Additional Outputs Points Performance Pool.
TFW includes allowances and Adult Guidance, excludes re-allocated European Social Fund money.
TEC Discretionary Fund has been excluded from figures.
1 England outturn 1995–96 £1,402,000 million.
§ Mr. Ian McCartneyTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what steps her Department is taking to encourage partnerships between TECs and the employment service at a local level. [41117]