§ Mr. ChaytorTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if she will list the total cost of administration in each of the local learning and skills councils in the current financial year. [13335]
§ Margaret Hodge[holding answer 19 November 2001]: The Learning and Skills Council (LSC) has been allocated £188 million for administration, of which £144 million has been allocated to local LSCs. The LSC has taken on a range of functions previously carried out by a number of bodies, including the Further Education Funding Council (FEFC), 72 Training and Enterprise Councils (TECs), the Department for Education and Employment (DfEE), Government Offices, and the National Advisory Council on Education and Training Targets (NACETT), as well as new work. For the latest year for which we have robust estimates available (1999–2000), our assessment is that the total spent on administration by the predecessor bodies, in relation to the relevant functions, was between £270 and £280 million.
Allocations to each local LSC are detailed in the table.
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(£) Councils Administration budget East Midlands Region Derbyshire 2,364,907 Nottinghamshire 2,857,567 Lincolnshire and Rutland 1,960,869 Leicestershire 2,687,889 Northamptonshire 1,798,677 11,669,909 East of England Region Norfolk 2,289,251 Cambridgeshire 2,374,829 Suffolk 1,956,078 Bedfordshire and Luton 2,002,038 Hertfordshire 3,199,652 Essex 3,818,435 15,640,283
(£) Councils Administration budget London Region London North 3,197,616 London West 4,144,284 London Central 5,065,507 London East 4,529,016 London South 3,234,975 20,171,398 North East Region Northumberland 1,649,535 Tyne and Wear 3,613,353 County Durham 1,854,441 Tees Valley 3,052,601 10,169,930 North West Region Cumbria 1,930,697 Lancashire 3,473,852 Greater Merseyside 4,292,626 Greater Manchester 6,466,411 Cheshire and Warrington 2,299,560 18,463,146 South East Region Milton Keynes/Ox/Bucks 3,497,027 Berkshire 2,927,177 Hampshire and Isle Wight 3,943,767 Surrey 3,035,428 Sussex 3,526,473 Kent and Medway 3,734,717 20,664,589 South West Region Devon and Cornwall 3,968,523 Somerset 1,878,668 Bournemouth, Dorset and Poole 2,512,867 West of England 3,284,672 Wiltshire 2,156,514 Gloucestershire 2,323,839 16,125,083 West Midlands Shropshire 1,586,601 Staffordshire 2,923,306 Black Country 3,032,076 Birmingham and Solihull 3,724,565 Herefordshire and Worcestershire 2,597,473 Coventry and Warwickshire 2,857,520 16,721,541 Yorkshire and Humberside North Yorkshire 2,234,811 West Yorkshire 5,405,563 South Yorkshire 3,779,421 Humberside 2,851,754 14,271,549 Allocated to local councils 143,897,428 National Employers Contracting Service 763,685