Partnership at Work Fund Programme

Mr. Hoban
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform whether his Department commissioned any external assessment of applications for funding under the Partnership at Work Fund programme.

Mr. McFadden
The Department commissioned the Industrial Relations Research Unit at the University of Warwick to undertake an evaluation of the Partnership Fund. This was published in 2003 as Employment Relations Research Series No. 17.

Mr. Hoban
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform what the cost to his Department of administering the Partnership at Work Fund programme was in each year since 1999.

Mr. McFadden
This information is not held centrally and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.