Training Agency

Mr. Blair
To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will list the funding paid to each area covered by the Training Agency for 1989–90 and the estimated funding for each of the following three years.

Mr. Nicholls
The information is not available in the precise form requested. Expenditure for field-delivered training programmes for April to December 1989 by Training Agency regions is set out in the table. The Government's plans for overall expenditure by the Training Agency over the next three years are set out in chapter 6 of the public expenditure White Paper (CM 1006).---------------------------
|Region                   |
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|South East               |
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|London                   |
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|South West               |
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|West Midlands            |
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|East Midlands and Eastern|
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|Yorkshire and Humberside |
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|North West               |
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|Northern                 |
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|Wales                    |
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|Scotland                 |
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|TNPU1                    |
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|Great Britain            |
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Note: Expenditure excludes training allowances and other costs administered centrally.