HC Deb 24 January 1992 vol 202 cc360-1W
Dr. Kumar

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will provide figures of training and enterprise councils' budgets for each of the regions in Great Britain for the last two years.

Mr. Jackson

The following table shows the TEC operational budgets for 1990–91 and 1991–92. Information for Scottish local enterprise companies is for the Secretary of State for Scotland to provide. Budgets are for the period of TEC operation only and vary in the periods they cover because of the differing operational dates of TECs.

Allocation
£ million
TEC 1990–91 1991–92
South East
Essex (23 July 1990) 14.685 29.162
Hampshire (17 September 1990) 13.447 31.963
Heart of England (17 September 1990) 4.355 10.733
Hertfordshire (30 April 1990) 10.413 19.527
Isle of Wight (15 October 1990) 1.588 4.123
Kent (12 November 1990) 8.738 32.172
Milton Keynes and North Buckinghamshire (17 September 1990) 3.125 6.488
Surrey (1 April 1991) Nil 14.070
Sussex (1 April 1991) Nil 25.984
Thames Valley Enterprise (30 April 1990) 12.241 19.784
London
AZTEC (12 November 1990) 2.720 10.742
CENTEC (16 September 1991) Nil 11.951
CILNTEC (14 October 1991) Nil 8.124
LETEC (I April 1991) Nil 27.618
North London (16 September 1991) Nil 9.690
North West London (16 September 1991) Nil 5.625
SOLOTEC (1 April 1991) Nil 18.555
South Thames (27 May 1991) Nil 20.510
West London (16 September 1991) Nil 8.945
West Midlands
Birmingham (12 November 1990) 11.578 46.456
Central England (1 April 1991) Nil 10.975
Coventry (17 September 1990) 13.622 25.768
Dudley (1 April 1991) Nil 11.203
Hereford and Worcester (1 April 1991) Nil 10.141
Sandwell (1 April 1991) Nil 11.247
Shropshire (1 April 1991) Nil 13.460
Staffordshire (15 October 1990) 16.335 34.627
Walsall (15 October 1990) 4.463 23.544
Wolverhampton (1 April 1991) Nil 11.564
East Midlands and Anglia
Leicester (1 April 1991) Nil 26.339
Northants (1 April 1991) Nil 12.852
Lincolnshire (1 April 1991) Nil 8.174
Greater Nottingham (1 April 1991) Nil 21.420
North Nottingham (25 June 1960) 11.329 16.965
South Derbyshire (7 January 1991) 3.170 17.607
North Derbyshire (1 April 1991) Nil 11.544
Norfolk and Waveney (12 November 1990) 8.461 22.888
Suffolk (12 November 1990) 4.534 14.243
Bedfordshire (1 April 1991) Nil 12.137
Greater Peterborough (4 February 1991) 0.902 8.174

TEC 1990–91 1991–92
CAMBSTEC (4 February 1991) 0.373 6.362
Yorkshire and Humberside
Leeds (15 October 1990) 10.035 22.497
North Yorkshire (25 June 1990) 10.819 17.006
Bradford (7 January 1991) 5.543 18.696
Calderdale/Kirklees (3 April 1990) 18.138 20.592
Wakefield (7 January 1991) 3.720 12.231
Barnsley and Doncaster (7 January 1991) 6.631 25.705
Sheffield (1 October 1990) 11.625 24.206
Rotherham (30 July 1990) 7.157 12.127
Humberside (2 April 1991) Nil 37.537
North West
Bolton and Bury (15 October 1990) 6.400 12.900
CEWTEC (1 April 1991) Nil 21.000
Cumbria (30 April 1990) 14.900 17.300
ELTEC (29 May 1990) 13.500 17.300
LAWTEC (1 April 1991) Nil 26.300
Manchester (12 November 1990) 12.600 38.500
METROTEC (23 July 1990) 7.000 10.500
Oldham (30 April 1990) 7.600 8.600
QUALITEC (1 April 1991) Nil 9.300
Rochdale (30 April 1990) 5.500 6.500
South and East Cheshire (9 April 1990) 8.300 10.900
Stockport and High Peak (20 August 1990) 5.500 9.700
Merseyside (24 June 1991) Nil 41.600
NORMID (24 June 1991) Nil 11.900
Northern
Teeside (30 April 1990) 31.057 34.565
Tyneside (30 April 1990) 33.113 45.908
Wearside (30 April 1990) 18.494 21.484
Durham (1 October 1990) 16.454 34.380
Northumberland (17 September 1990) 6.214 15.639
Wales
Gwent (4 February 1991) 2.400 18.400
North East Wales (17 September 1990) 6.200 13.600
North West Wales (4 February 1991) 1.800 13.600
Mid Glamorgan (23 July 1990) 14.900 21.100
Powys (2 April 1991) Nil 4.800
South Glamorgan (4 February 1991) 3.400 14.100
West Wales (23 July 1990) 20.400 31.500

Dr. Kumar

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what criteria he has set down for the circumstances in which training and enterprise councils may fund visits to overseas conferences; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Jackson

We have given training and enterprise councils a great deal of freedom of action to carry out the plans on which the Department contract with them. It is for them to decide on matters of this kind.

Dr. Kumar

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will give details of the costs of the visit to the conference on partnership in education, in Washington DC which are being borne by the Teesside training and enterprise council.

Mr. Jackson

Training and enterprise councils have been given an important role in ensuring that education and training are relevant to the needs of local business. Through the contract the Department has with each TEC we agree the overall outputs they will achieve for the funding they receive. As such, detailed matters such as attendance at conferences are for the TEC itself to decide.