§ Paul HolmesTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if she will list(a) the total sums made available to training and enterprise councils and (b) the sums spent by TECs on (i) work-based training for young people, (ii) work-based training for adults and (iii) other Government-funded programmes, in each year from 1995–96 to 2000–01. [71169]
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§ Mr. Ivan LewisThe following table gives details of sums made available to TECs and actual spend between the years 1996–97 and 2000–01. Information for earlier years is not available.
Training and Enterprise Council Budget and Spend 1996–2001 for PQ71169 (£000s) Spend Sums made available (Budget) 2000–01 Work Based Training Young People 810,592 859,237 Work Based Training Adults 260,448 279,314 Other Programmes 198,900 183,407 Total 1,269,940 1,321,958 1999–2000 Work Based Training Young People 770,876 832,376 Work Based Training Adults 233,360 298,622 Other Programmes 215,929 222,078 Total 1,220,165 1,353,076 1998–99 Work Based Training Young People 696,499 727,908 Work Based Training Adults 130,337 169,891 Other Programmes 206,675 218,993 Total 1,033,511 1,116,792 1997–98 Work Based Training Young People 729,834 730,530 Work Based Training Adults 213,806 223,577 Other Programmes 201,279 213,470 Total 1,144,919 1,167,577 1996–97 Work Based Training Young People 736,807 750,165 Work Based Training Adults 265,875 271,046 Other Programmes 153,537 154,882 Total 1,156,219 1,176,093
§ Paul HolmesTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if she will list in respect of each training and enterprise council the number of staff(a) employed at the end of 1999–2000, (b) transferred to the Learning and Skills Council, (c) transferred to the Small Business Service, (d) transferred to Business Links, (e) transferred to other organisations and (f) made redundant by the TEC prior to 31 March 2001. [71173]
§ Mr. Ivan LewisPlease following table shows the number of staff employed by the Training and Enterprise Councils (TECs) for the period 1999–2000. These figures were taken from the TEC audited Statutory Accounts. As TECs were private limited companies engaged in a wide range of activities the Department was not in a position to monitor the actual destination of each individual employed by them.
However the Department can confirm that of the staff in post at March 25 2001, 3750 transferred with TUPE rights of employment to the LSC and just over 320 to the Employment service. A further 520 staff with transfer rights took voluntary severance or were made redundant for technical reasons.
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Staffing Statutory Accounts 1999–2000 TECS Staff numbers Hampshire 195 Wight 85 Kent 237 Milton Keynes 127 Heart of England 105 Surrey 71 Sussex 159 Thames Valley 159 SOUTH EAST TOTAL 1,138 AZTEC 87 FOCUS 185 LeTEC 189 N London 156 NW London 102 SOLOTEC 177 W London 160 LONDON TOTAL 1,056 WESTEC 116 Prosper 307 Dorset 103 Gloucester 132 Somerset 138 Wiltshire 60 SOUTH WEST TOTAL 856 Birmingham 179 Cov/War 239 Dudley 97 HAWTEC 222 Sandwell 98 Shropshire 115 Staffordshire 152 Walsall 81 Wolverhampton 92 WEST MIDS TOTAL 1,275 Greater Nottingham 107 Leicester 114 Lincoln 183 Northamptonshire 95 North Derbyshire 79 North Nottingham 117 South Derbyshire 194 EAST MIDS TOTAL 889 Bedford 155 Cambs TEC 78 Essex 130 Greater Peterborough 120 Hertfordshire 219 Nor/Wav 112 Suffolk 70 EASTERN TOTAL 884 Barnsley/Doncaster 128 Bradford 98 Cardles/Kirkles 162 Humberside 200 Leeds 129 North Yorkshire 124 Rotherham 128 Sheffield 160 Wakefield 68 Y and H TOTAL 1,197 Bolton/Bury 157 Manchester 500 Wigan 151
Staffing Statutory Accounts 1999–2000 TECS Staff numbers Oldham 99 Rochdale 75 S and E Cheshire 190 Stockport 134 Cumbria 213 ELTEC 130 LAWTEC 128 N and Mid Cheshire 93 CEWTEC 205 Mersey 309 St Helens 90 NORTH WEST TOTAL 2,474 C Durham 114 Northumberland 197 Tees Valley 154 Tyneside 221 Sunderland 147 NORTH EAST TOTAL 833 GRAND TOTAL 10,602
§ Paul HolmesTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if she will list the aggregate amounts for each year from 1995–96 to 2000–01 to which her Department gave consent to transfer by training and enterprise councils between budget heads, showing for each budget head the total amount transferred out and the heads to which it was transferred. [71171]
§ Mr. Ivan LewisThis information is not available. Training and enterprise councils obtained approval from Government Offices to transfer between budget heads on an individual TEC basis. This information was not collated centrally.
§ Paul HolmesTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what guidance was given by her Department to training and enterprise councils on the virement of funds between the budgets allocated for work-based training for young people and adults and those for central TEC administration, for each of the years 1995–96 to 2000–01. [71170]
§ Mr. Ivan LewisThe guidance relating to the virement of funds between budgets allocated for work-based training for young people and adults was detailed and complex but in essence prior to 1999–2000 TECs were allowed to vire up to 10 per cent. of their surpluses from one "budget" (funding block) to another subject to them meeting certain minimum performance targets.
This guidance was revised in the 1999–2000 TEC Licence to formally restrict the levels of surpluses that could be generated and switched from one funding block to another to 7 per cent. in total.
§ Paul HolmesTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if she will list in respect of each training and enterprise council(a) her estimate of the aggregate of training and enterprise council surpluses attributable to public funds, (b) the amount paid over to public funds to date in respect of those surpluses, and (c) the action her Department is taking to recover outstanding amounts. [71174]
§ Mr. Ivan LewisWe are not yet able to give a final account of the individual or aggregate amounts of Training and Enterprise Councils (TECs) surpluses
1358Wattributable to public funds and we will not be able to do so until the Liquidators appointed to wind up the TEC companies (59 of the 72 TECs) have completed their work. In the case of the remaining TECs who are to continue trading, we will not be able to give the figures until we have finally resolved the amount of attributable reserves due back to us.
However the Department believes that by March 2003 they will have received back from the Training and Enterprise Councils (TECs) approximately £250 million worth of reserves. This amount includes £127 million in respect of Individual Learning Accounts (ILAs), £45 million in legacy funds for the Learning and Skills Council, £40 million in fixed assets transferred to a range of successor bodies or for use in the local community and £38 million for the National Transition Budget which is used to meet specific costs incurred in setting up the LSC, e.g., new IT system.
To date we have received £100 million for ILAs, £24 million for LSC legacy funds and 16m towards the National Transition Budget.
The return of funds has taken longer than initially expected due to the variety and complexity of issues which have had to be resolved, prior to TECs being able to appoint a liquidator or agree a clean break with the Department where the TEC have decided to continue. The Department are currently working closely with the relevant TECs and liquidators to ensure that outstanding issues are resolved and funds released as a matter of urgency. We have on occasions threatened the appointment of an administrative receiver where we have failed to secure the level of co-operation needed.
In return for releasing funds the Department is offering TEC Boards and or liquidators financial guarantees in the form of indemnities that ensure the funds will be repaid if they need them to meet genuine contractual commitments. In our experience all liquidators have been reluctant to release reserves until they have completed the wind-up, which in most cases is proving a complex and time-consuming process that can take over a year from appointment.
§ Paul HolmesTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills (1) if she will list in respect of each training and enterprise council for 2000–01 the proportion of total expenditure on Government-funded programmes represented by central administration costs; and what assessment she has made of whether the sums spent on central administration represented value for public money; [71172]
(2) if she will list (a) the total sums made available by her Department or its predecessors to training and enterprise councils for their central administration costs and (b) the amounts actually spent by TECs on central administration for each year from 1995–96 to 2000–01. [71168]
§ Mr. Ivan LewisInformation on central administration costs is not available. Training and enterprise councils were not provided with specific funds for their central administration costs. They received payments for programme and strategic budgets deemed to include an unspecified contribution towards administration costs. The amounts spent by TECs on administration and its disclosure were a matter for individual TECs and varied 1359W between them. Some TECs showed no administration costs within their statutory accounts under this heading, while most excluded the costs of staff involved in the direct delivery of their programmes. However, all TECs had to show staffing costs as a note within their accounts.
While this understates administration costs, as it does not cover expenditure on premises, information technology and other support systems, it is the best proxy for the information sought. I have therefore provided
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TEC/CCTE Administration Costs TECS by Region 1995–96 Staff costs £ 1996–97 Staff costs £ 1997–98 Staff costs £ 1998–99 Staff costs £ 1999–2000 Staff costs £ 2000–01 Staff costs £ NORTH EAST County Durham 2,311,019 2,381,375 2,418,663 2,445,110 2,264,783 2,190,271 Northumberland 2,883,378 2,902,466 3,095,325 3,242,676 3,470,126 3,333,138 Teesside 2,474,000 2,546,000 2,706,000 3,175,000 3,804,000 3,651,000 Tyneside 0 4,356,000 4,887,000 5,373,000 5,191,000 5,087,000 Sunderland 0 2,171,496 2,530,218 2,970,942 3,090,144 3,454,791 TOTAL 7,668,397 14,357,337 15,637,206 17,206,728 17,820,053 17,716,200 NORTH WEST Bolton/Bury 0 2,263,878 2,745,104 3,255,303 3,542,121 3,837,185 Manchester 1,856,463 6,177,225 8,495,725 11,080,599 12,635,740 13,101,439 Wigan 1,387,932 1,758,968 2,963,066 2,872,720 3,124,399 2,954,404 Oldham 0 0 1,811,362 2,146,895 2,288,594 2,283,321 Rochdale 0 0 1,193,879 1,499,157 1,675,210 1,970,153 SECTEC 0 3,891,142 4,072,153 4,537,011 4,068,952 4,313,025 Stockport 0 2,049,794 2,284,839 2,919,825 3,642,684 4,463,939 Cumbria 0 0 4,148,320 4,348,398 4,167,719 2,706,589 ELTEC 0 2,569,201 2,712,421 2,748,113 2,844,807 3,264,345 LAWTEC 0 3,091,784 3,312,162 3,934,181 3,395,214 3,984,551 NORMID 0 1,821,911 1,959,869 2,030,310 2,276,603 2,195,353 CEWTEC 0 2,174,555 3,718,651 4,096,319 4,441,424 4,368,431 Merseyside 3,634,498 4,694,248 5,003,540 5,981,867 6,924,000 7,048,000 St Helens 1,150,150 1,537,204 1,610,316 1,879,467 1,990,971 1,985,784 TOTAL 8,029,043 32,029,910 46,031,407 53,330,165 57,018,438 58,476,519 Y and H Barnsley/Doncaster 2,143,000 2,197,000 2,445,000 2,974,000 3,328,000 5,369,000 Bradford 1,789,517 2,059,238 2,102,648 2,272,563 2,267,865 2,253,228 Calderdale/Kirklees 1,715,654 2,483,786 3,303,476 3,654,117 3,863,677 3,872,012 Humberside 2,958,170 3,260,066 3,641,593 4,384,166 5,941,686 5,602,448 Leeds 1,914,944 2,298,615 2,771,812 3,049,722 3,263,066 3,911,480 North Yorks 0 1,831,000 2,009,000 2,418,000 2,871,000 2,840,000 Rotherham 0 2,117,437 2,479,131 2,842,753 3,034,383 3,187,066 Sheffield 0 2,670,000 3,160,000 4,215,000 3,704,000 3,950,000 Wakefield 0 1,302,102 1,759,642 1,456,005 1,476,719 1,883,145 TOTAL 10,521,285 20,219,244 23,672,302 27,266,326 29,750,396 32,868,379 EASTERN Bedfordshire 1,347,352 1,466,866 2,074,747 2,984,815 3,749,095 3,613,427 Cambridgeshire 913,069 913,733 1,009,261 1,632,060 2,231,354 2,313,959 Essex 2,317,688 2,528,000 2,619,000 2,832,000 4,154,000 3,764,000 Gtr Peterborough 0 1,771,605 2,253,241 2,830,365 2,881,068 2,823,756 Hertfordshire 0 3,118,000 3,266,000 4,875,000 5,744,000 6,035,000 Norfolk and Waveney 2,212,000 2,576,000 2,676,000 2,714,000 3,106,000 3,352,000 Suffolk 1,147,572 1,225,160 1,415,769 1,488,925 2,076,086 1,306,817 TOTAL 7,937,681 13,599,364 15,314,018 19,357,165 23,941,603 23,208,959 EAST MIDS Gtr Nottingham 1,196,000 1,243,000 1,442,000 1,738,000 2,313,000 3,011,000 Leicester 1,747,112 1,937,746 2,053,777 2,190,371 2,834,946 3,036,332 Lincolnshire 0 3,109,697 3,681,204 4,067,859 3,945,748 4,403,380 Northamptonshire 0 1,654,135 1,825,258 2,228,847 2,628,728 2,906,319 North Derbyshire 1,576,138 1,713,066 1,886,098 1,827,427 1,788,715 1,761,888 North Nottinghamshire 0 2,015,070 2,298,889 2,525,876 2,969,381 3,179,244 South Derbyshire 0 0 3,329,000 3,663,000 3,911,000 4,521,000 TOTAL 4,519,250 11,672,714 16,516,226 18,241,380 20,391,518 22,819,163 below figures for each of the financial years from 1995–96 to 2000–01 showing spend on staffing costs of each of the former Training and Enterprise Councils (TECs) in England as stated in their consolidated annual statutory audited accounts for the full range of activity TECs undertook.
Any direct comparison of staff costs between TECs is misleading, both because there is no statutory definition of staff costs and also because the range of training and enterprise activities differed between TECs.
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TEC/CCTE Administration Costs TECS by Region 1995–96 Staff costs £ 1996–97 Staff costs £ 1997–98 Staff costs £ 1998–99 Staff costs £ 1999–2000 Staff costs £ 2000–01 Staff costs £ WEST MIDS Birmingham 2,481,000 3,067,000 3,306,000 4,115,000 4,911,000 4,915,000 CENTEC 0 1,069,644 1,177,224 0 0 0 Cov/Warwick 0 3,821,050 4,453,813 4,725,901 5,061,723 5,355,204 Dudley 919,800 1,930,312 1,765,958 1,838,992 2,402,219 2,100,788 HAWTEC 0 264,995 3,169,812 3,991,952 5,258,626 4,829,276 Sandwell 0 1,519,404 2,077,656 2,406,903 2,587,877 2,267,000 Shropshire 1,108,286 1,714,043 1,897,373 2,000,996 2,055,106 1,663,543 Staffordshire 2,123,000 2,412,000 2,461,000 2,682,000 3,459,000 3,609,000 Walsall 1,152,790 1,322,744 1,580,134 1,727,060 2,197,035 2,027,310 Wolverhampton 417,000 1,700,000 2,022,000 2,203,000 2,156,000 2,516,000 TOTAL 8,201,876 18,821,192 23,910,970 25,691,804 30,088,586 29,283,121 SOUTH WEST WESTEC 2,094,000 2,328,000 2,425,000 2,017,000 2,342,000 2,617,000 Prosper 4,126,000 4,886,000 5,559,000 6,296,000 8,282,000 8,283,000 Dorset 0 1,359,210 1,518,023 1,939,118 2,198,014 2,672,488 Gloucester 1,385,007 1,646,505 1,939,644 2,879,008 3,172,585 3,757,699 Somerset 1,016,565 1,363,417 1,618,554 2,648,489 2,813,010 1,839,239 Wiltshire 1,285,468 1,486,814 1,492,318 1,501,086 1,571,918 1,899,769 TOTAL 9,907,040 13,069,946 14,552,539 17,280,701 20,379,527 21,069,195 LONDON Aztec 1,401,327 1,486,758 1,609,045 2,002,548 2,714,681 2,429,414 Centec 2,144,932 2,646,805 Cilntec 1,653,706 0 FOCUS 0 0 5,371,000 6,259,000 6,368,000 8,410,000 LETEC 2,463,241 3,640,819 4,521,474 4,898,407 5,617,403 5,890,489 North London 2,012,587 2,451,110 2,991,331 3,750,158 4,408,581 3,629,736 North West London 666,888 1,194,798 1,512,188 1,967,655 2,726,005 3,568,732 SOLOTEC 2,859,000 3,555,000 4,174,000 5,492,000 4,851,000 5,385,000 West London 0 3,548,546 5,684,669 5,583,113 5,244,201 5,556,025 TOTAL 13,201,681 18,523,836 25,863,707 29,952,881 31,929,871 34,869,396 SOUTH EAST Hampshire 0 2,613,000 3,474,000 4,399,000 4,867,000 5,492,000 Isle of Wight 582,378 618,585 733,424 1,241,925 1,582,489 1,575,765 Kent 1,999,858 2,832,777 3,624,774 4,138,710 6,315,951 6,255,099 Milton Keynes 0 2,760,094 2,940,610 3,022,377 3,302,090 2,810,683 Heart of England 1,616,454 1,855,421 2,146,037 2,354,176 2,483,181 2,747,806 Surrey 1,606,187 1,515,129 1,827,970 2,037,138 2,259,269 2,331,546 Sussex 2,534,000 3,246,000 3,619,000 3,952,000 4,229,000 5,018,000 Thames Valley 0 3,656,480 3,757,432 4,037,146 4,432,670 4,781,825 TOTAL 8,338,877 19,097,486 22,123,247 25,182,472 29,471,650 31,012,724 GRAND TOTAL 78,325,130 161,391,029 203,621,622 233,509,622 260,791,642 271,323,656