To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will list those local education authorities participating for the first time in TVEI extensions in 1990–91; when each such authority was informed by the Training Agency of their budget for 1990–91; and when they were informed of their budget for 1991–92.

Education authorities starting TVEI extension in 1990–91 are as follows:

• Avon
• Barnet
• Central
• Doncaster
• Dorset
• Harrow
• Highland
• Hillingdon
• Humberside
• Knowsley
• Lancashire
• Lincolnshire
• Merton
• Newham
• Nottinghamshire
• Redbridge
• Rotherham
• St. Helens
• Strathclyde—districts of Ayr
• Dumbarton
• Lanark
• Tayside

These authorities were given approval on 25 May 1990 to start extension. They were informed of their budgets shortly afterwards.Authorities have not yet been given their budgets for 1991–92.

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will provide the TVEI extensions budget for 1990–91 for each local education authority in (a) the north-west, (b) Yorkshire and Humberside, (c) Northern Ireland, (d) Wales and (e) Scotland.

I refer the hon. Member to the reply I gave him on Wednesday 20 June. TVEI does not operate in Northern Ireland.