HC Deb 17 October 1996 vol 282 cc1129-30W
Mr. Byers

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if she will list for each training and enterprise council its budget for 1996–97 and the total national budget for 1996–97. [40753]

Mr. Paice

[holding answer 16 October 1996]: The Budget made available to each training and enterprise council in England by the Department for 1996–97, is shown in the following table. The responsibility for TECs in Wales lies with my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Wales.

TEC budgets 1996–97
£
South East
Hampshire 30,613,244
Heart of England 12,553,959
Isle of Wight 3,425,755
Kent 37,316,989
Milton Keynes and North Bucks. 12,378,636
Surrey 11,783,484
Sussex 23,321,317
Thames Valley Enterprise 32,743,951
London
AZTEC 12,911,673
CENTEC 39,613,016
CILNTEC 20,079,556
London East 33,842,707
North London 20,951,858
North West London 11,521,119
SOLOTEC 32,091,223
West London 19,647,823
Eastern
Bedfordshire 12,813,995
CAMBSTEC 8,501,107
Essex 32,464,679
Greater Peterborough 11,812,797
Hertfordshire 19,218,027
Norfolk and Waveney 23,012,460
Suffolk 15,471,411
South West
Devon and Cornwall 44,193,093
Dorset 15,981,316
Gloucestershire 14,483,472
Somerset 12,319,729
WESTEC 29,171,124
Wiltshire 11,430,830
West Midlands
Birmingham 35,805,764
Central England 9,455,354
Coventry and Warwickshire 24,591,969
Dudley 9,644,020
HAWTEC 12,693,078
Sandwell 12,529,198
Shropshire 13,690,389
Staffordshire 30,152,515
Walsall 7,682,769
Wolverhampton 10,285,694
East Midlands
Greater Nottingham 18,953,357
Leicester 23,458,251
Lincolnshire 25,684,831
North Derbyshire 11,228,429
North Nottinghamshire 17,727.529
Northamptonshire 13,683,056
Southern Derbyshire 17,766,331
TEC budgets 1996–97
£
Yorkshire and the Humber
Bamsley and Doncaster 21,921,110
Bradford and District 16,938,463
Calderdale and Kirklees 19,044,942
Humberside 33,504,278
Leeds 19,450,577
North Yorkshire 17,094,843
Rotherham 11,019,135
Sheffield 20,200,688
Wakefield 10,573,996
North West
Bolton and Bury 14,644,497
Cumbria 18,622,134
Eltec (East Lancs) 19,446,635
Lawtec (Lancs West) 27,530,418
Manchester 41,860,974
Metrotec Ltd. (Wigan) 10,501,214
Normidtec 16,020,122
Oldham 9,047,116
Rochdale 8,971,483
South and East Cheshire 14,087,755
Stockport/High Peak 11,685,608
Merseyside
Cewtec 20,138,333
Merseyside 49,904,319
St. Helens (Qualitec) 8,592,371
North East
County Durham 24,371,817
Northumberland 13,155,902
Sunderland City 15,895,573
Teesside 30,693,260
Tyneside 36,788,782
England 11,462,409,229

Budgets as at August 1996. TEC Budgets comprise: Youth Programmes, FE Development and Competitiveness Fund.

Carry over from 1995–96 Contract of Careers Guidance and Careers Libraries, Work Experience pre-16, Training for Work (TfW), Pre-Vocational Pilots, Employer Investment in People, Out of School Childcare Initiative, Skills Challenge, Skills for Small Businesses, Performance Related Funding, Jobmatch, Management Fee.

YP—Youth Training, Modern Apprenticeships and Funding Pilots includes Accelerated Modern Apprenticeships carry over from 1995–96 Contract and excludes Additional Outputs Points Performance Pool.

TFW includes allowances and Adult Guidance, excludes re-allocated European Social Fund money.

TEC Discretionary Fund has been excluded from figures.

1 England outturn 1995–96 £1,402,000 million.

Mr. Ian McCartney

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what steps her Department is taking to encourage partnerships between TECs and the employment service at a local level. [41117]

Mr. Paice

I will write to the hon. Member and place a copy of my reply in the Library.