§ Mr. ChaytorTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will list the administrative costs for each of the last five years, as a percentage of the total budget, for(a) the Higher Education Funding Council, (b) the Further Education Funding Council and (c) training and enterprise councils, expressed as the national average figure, for that proportion of their responsibilities which is comparable with the responsibilities of the FEFC and the HEFC. [67670]
§ Mr. Mudie[holding answer 28 January 1999]: The information that my hon. Friend has requested is listed in the table. The three figures are not comparable because of differences in responsibilities between TECs, the HEFCE and the FEFC. Accordingly, as with HEFCE and FEFC, TEC percentages have been calculated on total administrative costs and budgets. The percentage figure for TECs is much higher than either of the others because TECs are themselves directly involved in local business support and economic development.
Percentage Year HEFCE FEFC TECS 1993–94 0.37 0.92 12 1994–95 0.35 0.82 11 1995–96 0.33 0.79 12 1996–97 0.37 0.74 12 1997–98 0.29 0.76 13