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Employment Service

Mrs. Helen Jackson: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment on the basis of what criteria decisions are taken to close or merge Employment Service offices which are used by the public seeking jobs. [40885]

Mr. Forth: Responsibility for the subject of the question has been delegated to the Employment Service agency under its chief executive. I will ask him to arrange for a reply to be given and place a copy of his answer in the Library.

Mr. Ian McCartney: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what assessment her Department has made of the advantage of widening the role of the Employment Service to provide information about education and training, careers guidance and basic skills work. [41118]

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

Consultants

Mr. Milburn: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what are her latest estimates of the expenditure on all external consultants, including management consultants, for each year since 1992, in 1996 prices, for her Department and its agencies; and what are the quantified annual cost savings which such expenditure has resulted in. [41185]

Mr. Robin Squire: Information in the form requested could be provided only at disproportionate costs.

Pupils (South Yorkshire)

Mr. Redmond: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if she will list by local authority, the number of (a) primary and (b) secondary pupils resident in South Yorkshire who attended schools in local authorities other than the one in which they live, in each of the last 10 years for which figures are available.[40907]

Mr. Robin Squire: The following table shows the number of pupils resident in each authority who attended maintained schools elsewhere in the years 1992 to 1994. No data are available for other years.

Local authority	5 to 10 years	11 to 15 years	Over 16 years
January 1992
Barnsley	128	516	95
Doncaster	72	372	31
Rotherham	83	153	24
Sheffield	205	571	58
January 1993
Barnsley	147	584	80
Doncaster	77	398	39
Rotherham	91	165	23
Sheffield	247	685	75
January 1994
Barnsley	173	645	86
Doncaster	102	433	47
Rotherham	89	131	15
Sheffield	247	777	93

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Training and Enterprise Councils

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
Yorkshire and the Humber
Barnsley 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	(5)1,462,409,229

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.

(5) England outturn 1995-96 £1,402,000 million.

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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.

Departmental Office (Runcorn)

Mr. Ian McCartney: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if she will make a statement on the contract for security services to cover the offices of the Department for Education and Employment office

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in Runcorn indicating the name of the contractor, the total cost of the contract, and details of the wages and conditions of employment for the guards. [41136]

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

Parliamentary Questions

Mr. Flynn: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many answers to (a) written and (b) oral parliamentary questions have required correction by her Department in each of the past two years. [40630]

Mr. Robin Squire [holding answer 16 October 1996]: This is a matter of public record.

Exclusions and Expulsions

Mr. Redmond: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if she will publish for the last available four years for each local authority in South Yorkshire and for South Yorkshire as a whole the number of school exclusions or expulsions recorded for (a) primary schools, (b) secondary schools and (c) all schools, indicating the percentage of exclusions and expulsions as a proportion in each case of overall pupil numbers. [40958]

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

Combined Heat and Power

Mr. Battle: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what capacity of electricity used in her Department's buildings is generated in a combined heat and power plant; and what plans she has to increase that capacity. [41319]

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

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