HC Deb 23 February 1990 vol 167 cc962-3W
Mr. McLeish

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what is the total estimated expenditure on adult training in each of the years 1988–89 to 1992–93 inclusive, in cash and real terms, for Great Britain.

Mr. Nicholls

[holding answer 12 February 1990]: Expenditure on adult training' in the years 1988–89 to 1992–93 in cash prices and constant 1988–89 prices is given in the following table:

Cash prices Constant prices2
£ million £ million
1988–89 outturn 690 690
1989–90 forecast 1,158 1,082
1990–91 planned 1,280 1,139
1991–92 planned 1,250 1,074
1992–93 planned 1,271 1,061
1 Adult training includes the following programmes: business enterprise programme, business growth training, employment rehabilitation centres, employment training, industrial language training service, local collaborative projects, local grants to employers, national priority skills, new job training scheme, old job training scheme, residential training for the disabled, training for enterprise, voluntary project programme, wider opportunities training programme. It does not include the community programme.
2 Cash figures adjusted to 1988–89 price levels by excluding the effect of general inflation as measured by the gross domestic product deflator.