To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will make a statement on training and enterprise councils.

All 82 training and enterprise councils are now operational and turning their ambitious plans into practical action to improve training and business services in every part of the country. The enthusiasm and commitment shown by the top business people leading the TEC initiative is without parallel and is laying a firm basis for the high-skill, high-productivity economy this country needs.

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment (1) if he will give information showing the differences between profiled and actual expenditure by each training and enterprise council/local enterprise company and area office for each of the training and enterprise councils/local enterprise companies five funding blocks in each region and for Great Britain in total in 1990–91 and the latest available period; and if he will make a statement;(2) what were the differences between profiled targets and actual performance of training and enterprise councils/local enterprise companies and area offices for

It is not possible to provide the information requested. Profiles are produced for internal management information purposes only.The part of the question that relates to local enterprise companies is for my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Scotland to answer.

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many directors of training and enterprise councils are (i) men, (ii) women, (iii) from ethnic minority backgrounds and (iv) from the private sector; what information he has about from which industrial sectors directors with a private sector background come; and, of those non-private sector directors, how many are from (a) local authorities, (b) local education authorities, (c) other educational organisations, (d) trade unions, (e) voluntary organisations, (f) ethnic minority organisations, (g) employers' associations and (h) others.

The information available is shown in the table. Information on the industrial sector background of directors from the private sector is not held centrally.