HC Deb 24 July 1991 vol 195 c611W
Mr. Leighton

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will make a statement on the accountability of TECs to Parliament.

Mr. Jackson

Training and enterprise councils are accountable to the Department through a contract which provides a framework for their activities and provides a clear statement of the management information which they must supply to enable their performance to be monitored against the agreed targets in their corporate and business plans.

TECs are, in addition, obliged to prepare summaries of their corporate and business plans and annual reports and I have arranged for copies of these documents to be deposited in the House of Commons Library as they become available.

I have also written to all Members of Parliament to encourage them to take an interest in and support their local training and enterprise council; and to take up directly matters which are within the day-to-day responsibility of TECs.