§ Mrs. MahonTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will give the salaries of the chief executives of the training and enterprise councils in England and Wales.
Mr. JacksonChief executives who are on secondment to training and enterprise councils from the Employment Department are paid the civil service salary appropriate to their grade. The salary of a directly employed chief executive is a matter for the TEC itself to decide.
§ Mrs. MahonTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment what are the running costs of administration excluding money spent on programmes of training and enterprise councils; and what are the total administration costs of the training and enterprise councils.
Mr. JacksonThe total Government contribution to the running costs of training and enterprise councils for England and Wales in 1991–92 is £124.342 million.
§ Mrs. MahonTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment what is the private sector financial contribution to the running costs or programme costs of the training and enterprise councils.
Mr. JacksonThe private sector does contribute to the costs of training, enterprise and education programmes in a variety of ways, for example, either direct to a TEC by contributions to a specific project or by meeting some of the costs of individual trainees. Information on these contributions is not available centrally.
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§ Mrs. MahonTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many staff are employed by the training and enterprise councils in total.
Mr. JacksonWe do not hold figures for the staff TECs employ in posts which are not publicly funded. On 1 November training and enterprise councils had 3,456 in publicly funded posts, 532 direct and 2,924 secondees.
§ Mrs. MahonTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment what is the total cost of training and enterprise council board members expenses; and how many(a) women and (b) members of ethnic minorities there are.
Mr. JacksonReimbursement of expenses incurred by training and enterprise council board members is a matter for each TEC and central records are not maintained. Currently 122 board members are women. Information collected in summer 1991 showed that 40 board members were from an ethnic minority background.