Philip Booth Whatdotheyknow? By email [email protected]

Date 8 August 2008 Our reference 06-08-2008-153421-002 Your reference 1615-fe971669

Dear Philip Booth

Request for Information

Thank you for your request for information about companies funded by Train to Gain under the National Employer Service. Your request was received on 6 August 2008 and we have dealt with it under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

You requested:

“Please detail which particular companies dealt with by the national employer service (i.e. large companies) received funding over £200,000 for Train to Gain-financed qualifications (by year).

Please find below the names of organisations identified as having received more than £200,000 funding from the Train to Gain budget by year.

2005-2006

Provider Name Total Barnet College £1,299,900 Learning World Ltd £1,297,700 First Group Plc £1,184,400 ASSA Training And Learning UFI £895,530 HCTC Limited £658,430 Care First Health Care Limited £573,720

Learning and Skills Council

Cheylesmore House Quinton Road Coventry CV1 2WT T 0845 019 4170 F 024 7682 3675 www.lsc.gov.uk Alfred McAlpine plc £548,200 Construction Limited £522,250 Metals Industry Skills and Performance Limited £462,760 The Vocational College Limited £429,920 Royal Mail Group Plc £403,340 NVQUK.COM Limited £362,670 Construction Industry Training Board £316,450 Department Of Work & Pensions £315,980 Hays plc £288,000 Kwik-Fit (GB) Limited £282,500 Jarvis Training £269,600 The Army School Of Recruiting £256,930 Barchester Healthcare Limited £210,960 Waste Management Industry Trg (WAMITAB) £203,560

2006-2007 (NB April 06 to July 07 inc.)

Provider Name Total Carter & Carter £2,611,235 CITB- CONSTRUCTIONSKILLS £2,429,210 Construction Learning World LTD £2,098,050 Dayspring Consulting Limited £1,970,915 NVQUK Limited £1,771,300 FirstGroup PLC £1,702,300 Compass Group PLC £1,568,750 Carillion Construction Limited £1,367,745 ASSA Training And Learning UFI £988,995 Directorate of Educational and Training Services (Army) £977,799 Alfred McAlpine PLC £966,250 McDonald's Restaurants Limited £910,000 HCTC Limited £876,310 BUPA Care Homes (CFH Care) Limited £793,815 CEMEX UK Operations Ltd £768,720 Care UK PLC £677,040 Metskill Limited £655,710 Kwik-Fit (GB) Limited £541,700 Barchester Healthcare Limited £536,680 Peugeot Citreon Automobiles UK Limited £526,665 BP Oil UK Limited £465,105 Jarvis Training Management Limited £445,430 Edmund Nuttall Limited £432,350 Rentokil Initial PLC £429,350

Letter to Philip Booth on 8 August 2008 Request for Information 2 of 4 Hays PLC £416,750 Speciality Care (UK Lease Homes) Limited £399,655 Protocol Skills Limited £392,480 VT Plus Training PLC £384,000 Veolia Environnement Development Centre Limited £382,175 Care Management Group Limited £366,290 ASDA Stores Limited £341,610 The Vocational College Limited £322,000 JHP Group Limited £314,280 Royal Mail Group PLC £306,835 Sodexho Limited £292,865 Naval Recruitment And Training Agency £287,657 Economic Solutions Limited £280,775 IMS (UK) Limited £272,700 Four Seasons Healthcare Limited £264,540 Barnet College £232,900 The Restaurant Group PLC £232,500

2007-2008

Provider Name Funding CITB - CONSTRUCTIONSKILLS £3,400,000 Construction Learning World Ltd £1,647,000 Wincanton Group Limited £1,299,400 Dayspring Consulting Limited £1,065,750 Care UK Plc £1,016,110 Veolia Environnement Development Centre Limited £1,000,300 Carillion Construction Limited £921,800 Compass Group Plc £889,910 Ministry of Defence (Army) £795,260 BUPA Care Homes (CFHCARE) Limited £722,750 Southern Cross Healthcare Group PLC £717,750 Alfred McApline Plc £633,000 Christian Salvesen Plc £572,450 Rentokil Initial 1927 PLC £543,000 Edmund Nuttall Limited £482,650 Jarvis Training Management Limited £479,090 Ford Motor Company Limited £455,200 Protocol Skills Limited £432,850 VT Training PLC £418,750 Govia Limited £415,770 NVQUK Limited £410,250

Letter to Philip Booth on 8 August 2008 Request for Information 3 of 4 Kwik-Fit (GB) Limited £398,200 FirstGroup Plc £352,350 Carter & Carter £285,600 CEMEX UK Operations Limited £275,650 Barchester Healthcare Limited £227,020 The Group PLC £217,890

If you have any queries about this letter, please contact me quoting the above reference number. I confirm that we have now closed your request.

Yours sincerely

Information Rights Manager

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