§ Mr. RedmondTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment which TECs currently offer extended child care places to children aged five years and over outside normal school hours and during school holidays; and how many places each TEC has available.
§ Miss WiddecombeFrom April 1994, all training and enterprise councils will be making grants available to help establish new after-school and holiday-care places under the Government's out-of-school child-care initiative. A total of 50,000 new places are expected to be created across Britain by March 1996.
In 1993–94 a limited number of TECs ran the initiative. Latest available figures in the following table show the number of places notified by each TEC as created up to March 1994.
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Cumulative places created by March 1994 Quarter 4 England 4,019 Heart of England 0 Kent 164 Milton Keynes 0 Thames Valley 248
Quarter 4 AZTEC 40 London East 24 North London 58 South Thames 133 Bedfordshire 168 Hertfordshire 555 Norfolk and Waveney 144 Avon 24 Devon and Cornwall 181 Dorset 0 Gloucestershire 64 Somerset 41 Wiltshire 62 Central England 126 Coventry 292 Hawtec 24 Shropshire 60 Walsall 52 Greater Nottinghamshire 0 Leicester 0 Lincolnshire 0 North Nottinghamshire 80 Humberside 96 Sheffield 222 Rotherham 92 Calderdale/Kirklees 55 METROTEC 90 Rochdale 140 South and East Cheshire 211 CEWTEC 4 Cumbria 136 ELTEC 16 County Durham 80 Northumberland 52 Teeside 40 Tyneside 245
§ Mr. VazTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many(a) black and (b) Asian people serve on each TEC; and if he will make a statement.
§ Miss WiddecombeInformation on the ethnic origin of training and enterprise council board members is provided voluntarily by the TECs. The following table shows that there are 38 TEC board members of ethnic origin on the board of 28 TECs. This information may not give the complete picture of the ethnic origin of TEC board members. TECs are private companies and are responsible for the composition of their own boards.
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Number of TEC board members of ethnic origin Training and Enterprise Council Number Avon 1 Bedfordshire 2 Birmingham 3 Bolton/Bury 1 Calderdale/Kirklees 1 CAMBSTEC (Central/South Cambridgeshire) 1 CILNTEC (City and Inner London North) 1 Coventry and Warwickshire 1 Greater Nottingham 1 Greater Peterborough 1 Hampshire 1 Hertfordshire 1 Leeds 1 Leicestershire 2 London East 1 Manchester 1 Milton Keynes and North Bucks 1 North London 3
Training and Enterprise Council Number North West London 3 Oldham 1 Rochdale 1 Rotherham 1 Sandwell 1 Shropshire 1 SOLOTEC 2 South Thames 2 Walsall 1 Wolverhampton 1 TOTAL 38
§ Mr. ByersTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many civil servants in his Department took early retirement on being seconded to work for a training and enterprise council.
§ Miss WiddecombeNone. While on secondment working for a training and enterprise council, all departmental staff remained employees of the Department.
§ Mr. MorganTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment, pursuant to his answer of 18 May,Official Report column 505, what information was given to the chairman of the training and enterprise councils, concerning the rights of civil servants seconded to the TECs to be eligible for the voluntary early retirement scheme and pertaining to their permanent employment with those TECs after completion of their secondment period.
§ Miss WiddecombeTraining and enterprise councils were told that the early retirement schemes were not meant for secondees who intended taking up TEC employment.