§ 27. Dr. Kingasked the Minister of Labour what steps he is taking to implement the recommendations contained in the Report of the Carr Committee on apprentice training.
§ Mr. WoodThe recommendations of the Carr Committee were addressed to industry, and industry must be responsible for taking action on them. The Industrial Training Council is urging upon individual industries the need to give these recommendations the urgent attention they require, and youth employment committees are doing all they can to promote local consideration of the Report.
§ Dr. KingIs the Parliamentary Secretary aware that the Carr Committee made a series of excellent general observations on this terrific problem, and that the real trouble now is to get teeth into the recommendations of this Committee? Is he aware that, in this vast output from our schools in the next two or three years, we have the opportunity of recruiting potential trainees for all the work of a modern State on a scale never before envisaged? Will he use his influence with the Minister to ginger up bath industry and the trade union side to get down to the problem of recruiting apprentices?
§ Mr. WoodI can assure the hon. Gentleman that over the last few months I have been using all the influence I possess on exactly the wise lines which the hon. Gentleman suggests. I do not think anyone can under-estimate the importance which he so rightly attaches to this question.