§ 72. Mr. LofthouseTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will set out the level of funding in 1990 prices for youth training in 1989–90 and 1992–93.
§ Mr. NichollsPlanned expenditure on youth training in 1989–90 and 1992–93, in 1990–91 prices, is £1,061 million and £716 million. Additional funds will be made available to training and enterprise councils, and local enterprise companies in Scotland, whose bids to pilot training credits for young people are accepted. These will involve a transfer of the appropriate proportion of relevant elements from the revenue support grant, and additional sums of £12 million in 1991–92 and £25 million in subsequent years.
§ Mr. WorthingtonTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment what was the public expenditure per trainee in 1989–90 on youth training; and what it will be in 1990–91 in Scotland.
§ Mr. NichollsThe gross public cost per trainee week on YTS in 1989–90 is estimated to be £50 per trainee week. Information about gross public costs per trainee week of youth training in Scotland in 1990–91 is not available.