HC Deb 24 February 2003 vol 400 cc223-4W
Andrew Mackinlay

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how much public funding, including European grant aid was allocated to the Hospitality Association of Northern Ireland between 1995 and 1999; and which agencies allocated the funding. [98418]

Jane Kennedy

(a) Hospitality Association of Northern Ireland (HANI) received European funding from the Tourism and Hospitality Training Council (THTC) acting as an agent for the Training and Employment Agency (now Department for Employment and Learning (DEL) as follows:

Project £
1. Training Resource Library 4,850.00
2. Multiskilling Programme 73,936.17
3. Multiskilling Programme 2 84,337.88
4. International Culinary Olympics, Berlin 1996 12,129.66
5. SELECT 220,935.04

(b) HANI received the following European funding from the Northern Ireland Tourist Board (NITB) (which is part of the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment) under the NITB Marketing Support Scheme:

NITB Marketing Support Scheme £36,418.82

(c) HANI received funding from Department for Employment and Learning for sectoral training courses as follows:

Hospitality and Catering Management Projects £179,830.

(d) HANI received contractual payments as a provider to the Jobskills programme:

Jobskills £251,052.45.