[holding answer 14 June 1993]: The sum of £9·3 million is allocated to the scheme covering selection costs, air fares, induction training in Britain and British Council management charges. Training is not offered outside the United Kingdom and the scheme is limited to participants from the former Soviet Union and the Baltic states.I am placing a list with the further details the hon. Member requested in the Library of the House.
| United Kingdom Know How Fund Chancellor's financial sector scheme |
| Host companies | Town |
| 3I plc | London |
| Abbey National plc | Milton Keynes |
| Bank of Scotland | Edinburgh |
| Bank of Wales | Cardiff |
| Barclays Bank | London |
| Baring Brothers and Co. Ltd. | London |
| BDO Binder | London |
| Beachcroft Stanleys | London |
| Bradford and Bingley Building Society | Bingley |
| Close Brothers Ltd. | London |
| Clydesdale Bank plc | Glasgow |
| D. C. Gardner Group plc | London |
| D. K. Ray and Co. | Beaconsfield |
| Deutch Bank AG | London |
| Eagle Star Insurance Company Ltd. | Cheltenham |
| Equitable Life Assurance Society | Aylesbury |
| Equity and Law Life Assurance | High Wycombe |
| Ernst and Young | London |
| Financial Research Associates | London |
| Friends' Provident Life Office | Dorking |
| Girobank plc | Bootle |
| Heart of England Building Society | Warwick |
| Herbert Smith | London |
| Hogg Robinson Financial Services Ltd. | Reading |
| Invesco MIM Holdings Ltd. | London |
| Italian International Bank plc | London |
| Kingston Smith | London |
| Lazard Brothers and Co. Ltd. | London |
| Legal and General Group plc | London |
| Linklaters and Paines | London |
| Lloyds Bank plc | London |
| Maclay Murray and Spens | Edinburgh |
| Marsden Building Society | Nelson |
| Host companies | Town |
| Martin Currie Investment Management Ltd. | Edinburgh |
| Mercury Asset Management Ltd. | London |
| Midland Montagu | London |
| Morgan Grenfell and Co. Ltd. | London |
| N. M. Rothschild and Sons Ltd. | London |
| Nabarro Nathonson | London |
| National Provincial Building Society | Bradford |
| National Provident Institution (NPI) | Tonbridge Wells |
| National Westminster Bank plc | London |
| Nationwide Building Society | Northampton |
| Newcastle Building Society | Newcastle-upon-Tyne |
| Northern Rock Building Society | Newcastle-upon-Tyne |
| Norton Rose | London |
| Principality Building Society | Cardiff |
| Rabin Leacock Lipman | London |
| Royal Bank of Scotland plc | Edinburgh |
| RYDEN | Edinburgh |
| Scottish Equitable Life Assurance Society | Edinburgh |
| Sedgwick Group plc | London |
| Shoosmiths and Harrison Solicitors | Northampton |
| Singer and Friedlander Ltd. | London |
| Slaughter and May | London |
| Smith New Court Securities | London |
| Sphere Drake Underwriting Management Ltd. | Brighton |
| Standard Chartered Bank | London |
| Stephenson Harwood | London |
| Sun Alliance Group | London |
| SunLife Assurance Society plc | London |
| Svenska Handelsbanken | London |
| Swiss Bank Corporation | London |
| Tods Murray WS | Edinburgh |
| Touche Ross | London |
| Woolwich Building Society | Bexleyheath |
| Wragge and Co. | Birmingham |
| Geographical distribution of current CFSS participants |
| Town | Count of town |
| Aylesbury | 2 |
| Beaconsfield | 1 |
| Bexleyheath | 1 |
| Bootle | 2 |
| Bradford | 1 |
| Brighton | 1 |
| Cardiff | 1 |
| Cheltenham | 1 |
| Edinburgh | 3 |
| Town | Count of town |
| London | 18 |
| Milton Keynes | 2 |
| Nelson | 1 |
| Newcastle-upon-Tyne | 1 |
| Northampton | 2 |
| Reading | 1 |
| Average lengths of current CFSS attachments |
| Duration range | Count of duration range |
| 3 months | 8 |
| 4–6 months | 8 |
| 6–12 months | 22 |