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Skills Training Agency

Volume 169: debated on Tuesday 20 March 1990

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To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how much Deloitte Haskins and Sells was paid for work in connection with the sale of the Skills Training Agency.

The amounts, paid to Deloitte Haskins and Sells as at 16 March 1990 were £132,425 for the initial feasibility study, £124,229 for work by Deloitte Corporate Finance as the Secretary of State's main sale adviser, and £42,903 for accountancy work by Deloitte Haskins and Sells. The figures exclude expenses and VAT.

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what response the Minister of State has had about his offer to meet representatives of the trade unions about position papers prepared by bidders for the Skills Training Agency, together with assessments by the Government Actuary's Department of the successful bidders' pension proposals.

Representatives of the STA trade unions have indicated they would like to take up my offer to meet them. I hope that a date for a meeting can be fixed very shortly.