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Cash runs out for Scottish training
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Training providers are owed "significant" sums as the Scottish Executive exceeds its budget by nearly E 1 40,000. Dylan Gray reports.
HIGH DEMAND FOR the Scottish Driver Training Scheme and the Scottish Young LGV Drivers Scheme have exceeded the funds available for training, so training providers are not being paid.
In a letter seen by CM, Skills for Logistics (SfL) warns providers that the total payments claimed for 'final milestones' (the last stage of the training) was substantially greater than it had expected or had been budgeted for by the Scottish Executive (SE). SfL explains that the final bill exceeds the SE's remaining budget for 2006/2007 by as much as i137,00.
An SE spokesman says: The Scottish Executive is aware that the out-turn costs for training on these schemes in 2006-07, as submitted to SfL, are higher than had been anticipated.
"The SE and SfL are discussing the reason for this at the moment," the spokesman adds. "They are looking to resolve the problem as a matter of urgency." The SfL letter points out that the SE had underspent on its budget for previous years and that it had made the SE aware that the sums owed to each training provider were "very significant".
It made very clear that it cannot resolve the problem by paying trainers until the necessary funds had been cleared by the SE.
As CM went to press, an SfL spokeswoman could only give a limited response: "We are looking to resolve this situation."