HC Deb 07 December 1993 vol 234 c145W
Mr. Nicholas Brown

To ask the President of the Board of Trade what was the total budget allocated by his Department during 1992–93 to(a) Business Advice Gateshead, (b) Business Advice Newcastle, (c) Business Advice North Tyneside, (d) Business Advice South Tyneside, (e) Entrust, Newcastle upon Tyne, (f) Gateshead Business Team, (g) Blaydon Business Centre, (h) Marketing Advice Centre, Newcastle and (i) Sunderland Business and Enterprise Centre.

Mr. Sainsbury

The figures are as follows:

  1. (a) Nil;
  2. (b) Nil;
  3. (c) Nil:
  4. (d) Nil;
  5. (e) £218,538;
  6. (f) Nil;
  7. (g) Nil;
  8. (h) Nil;
  9. (i) Nil.

My Department was not the primary source of funding for these organisations in 1992–93. The training and enterprise councils (TECs) and local authorities provided core funding for the business advice centres and during this period my right hon. Friend the then Secretary of State for Employment made provision for the TECs in her Estimates.

Mr. Nicholas Brown

To ask the President of the Board of Trade what was the total budget allocated by his Department during 1992–93 to(a) the business advice centres in Cleveland, Cumbria, Northumberland and Tyne and Wear and (b) the eight enterprise agencies in County Durham.

Mr. Sainsbury

The figures are as follows:

  1. (a) £105,778
  2. (b) £21,350

My Department was not the primary source of funding for these organisations in 1992–93. The training and enterprise councils (TECS) and local authorities provided core funding for the regional business advice centres and the enterprise agencies operating in County Durham. During this period my right hon. Friend the then Secretary of State for Employment made provision for the TECs in her Estimates.