HC Deb 21 March 1997 vol 292 cc949-50W
Mr. Dobson

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if she will list the non-elected bodies responsible to her Department which are responsible for providing advice or services in London, indicating in each case the (i) overall budget and (ii) estimated running costs for each year from 1996–97 to 1999–2000. [21387]

Mr. Paice

The information available is given in the following table.

Non-elected bodies Overall budget 1996–97 (£) Running costs 1996–97 (£)
Training and Enterprise Councils:
West London TEC 20,658,317 1,740,682
AZTEC 13,238,824 1,223,209
CENTEC1 40,029,172 3,813,735
CILNTEC1 20,358,066 1,998,662
London East TEC 34,416,844 3,059,632
North London TEC 22,415,495 1,804,767
North-west London TEC 11,089,213 1,223,121
SOLOTEC 32,644,320 3,108,208
Careers Services:
Capital Careers 2,564,865 2,139,336
Careers Enterprise 1,639,851 1,374,336
CFBT West London Careers 3,295,607 2,734,336
Futures Careers 4,783,974 4,264,336
Lifetime Careers 1,851,033 1,544,336
London South Bank Careers 1,899,373 1,606,690
Prospects Careers 4,105,950 3,414,336
Search Careers 1,956,431 1,629,336
Microdec Careers 500,000 n/a
Greenwich Careers2 511,760 346,000
Lewisham Careers2 528,784 419,944
Lambeth Careers2 445,510 394,528
Southwark Careers2 492,689 396,000
1As of 1 April 1997 CILNTEC and CENTEC will merge to form Focus Central London TEC.
2These Careers Services operated from 1 April 1996 to 30 September 1996, after which (from 1 October 1996) London South Bank Careers took over.
n/a = information not available.
TEC and Careers Service total budget and running costs for 1997–98, 1998–99 and 1999–2000 have not yet been determined.