Training and Enterprise Councils

HC Deb 19 January 1996 vol 269 cc818-9W

Mrs. Roche

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment in respect of which TECs she considers monitoring systems are(a) adequate and (b) inadequate. [10413]

Mr. Paice

The Department assigns financial risk banding to each training and enterprise council after assessing whether it complies with financial control provisions contained in the TEC operating agreement. These require TECs to monitor their own activities, and those of subcontractors, as well as meeting a range of obligations to young people and adults participating in training programmes.

These assessment do not cover TECs' private income nor any other internal financial matter which fall outside their contracts with Government. Financial control risk banding are reviewed quarterly, but individual TEC results are confidential.

The latest composite TEC risk banding results are for the quarter ended 30 September 1995, when all 74 English TECs fell within the Department's low risk band.