§ Mr. SkinnerTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will ensure that copies of the operating and business plans for training and enterprise councils are placed in the Library as soon as they are published; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. EggarTraining and enterprise councils will be required to publish a summary of their corporate and business plans. I shall arrange for these summaries to be placed in the Library as they become available.
§ Mr. BlairTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will state the public funding in cash terms and real terms available for each training and enterprise council operative as from 1 April for the terminal year 1990–91, together with the public funding currently available to the Training Agency for 1989–90 for the area covered by each training and enterprise council.
§ Mr. EggarThe Government's plans for expenditure on training and enterprise are set out in chapter 6 of the public expenditure White Paper (CM 1006). Budgets for individual TECs will be determined after the TEC's corporate and business plan has been approved and a contract signed. The great majority of TECs (and local enterprise companies in Scotland) are not planning to start operations until later in the financial year.
507WIt is not generally possible to compare directly TEC budgets with those of Training Agency Offices. Over 100 TECs are being established, which compares with 57 area offices.