§ Ms ShortTo ask the Secretary of State for Wales what powers training and enterprise councils have to switch their allocation of funds between various parts of their budgets; to what extent each TEC in Wales transferred funds from the budgets they were allocated for both youth training and employment training in 1992–93; for what purposes the funds were subsequently allocated; and if he will make a statement.
§ Sir Wyn RobertsThe operating agreement between the Welsh Office and TECs provides that a TEC may increase or decrease its payment ceiling for youth training or training credits, training for work—which replaced employment training and employment action—compacts, education business partnerships and business and enterprise support by up to a maximum of 5 per cent. of the payment ceiling for each of the initial budgets agreed by the Secretary of State and set out in the business plan, provided that the payment ceiling for the sum of those budgets set out in the business plan shall not be exceeded. Such flexibility enables TECs to respond to local needs that develop in-year.
During the 1992–93 financial year, six of the seven TECs in Wales used this facility to transfer funds from 723W youth training into employment training, employment action and business and enterprise support budgets. Details are shown in the table.
Switches from youth training TEC Amount (£) Additional provision purchased Gwent 594,226 Employment Training Mid Glamorgan 702,761 Employment Training North West Wales 241,959 Employment Training Powys 140,074 Employment Training South Glamorgan 68,850 Business and Enterprise Support West Wales 724,424 Emploment Training Employment Action Business and Enterprise Support
§ Ms ShortTo ask the Secretary of State for Wales what was the outturn expenditure given to each TEC in Wales in 1992–93 at 1993–94 prices; and what is the budget for each TEC in 1993–94 in total and broken down in the same way as given in the answer from the Secretary of State for Employment to the Member for Basingstoke (Mr. Hunter), of 18 February 1993,Official Report, column 335-38.
§ Sir Wyn RobertsI will write to the hon. Lady and place a copy of my reply in the Library of the House.
Numbers in training in Wales Period ending 25 April 1993 23 May 1993 20 June 1993 18 July 1993 15 August 1993 Youth Training 13,404 12,947 12,619 12,770 12,530 Training Credits 1,468 1,513 1,591 1,867 2,009 Training for Work 11,821 10,831 10,191 9,155 9,124 Business Start-up 2,015 1,919 1,954 2,002 1,955 Learning for Work1 n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a 1 This spring budget announced programme did not start until September 1993.