Clause 6 (Hansard, 24 July 1973)

§ The Minister of State, Department of Employment (Mr. Robert Chichester-Clark)
I beg to move, That this House doth agree with the Lords in the said amendment.

§ Mr. Speaker
With this we shall take the following Lords Amendments.
No. 9, in page 34, line 5, leave out from "words" to end of paragraph and insert: from the beginning to 'carried on' there shall be substituted the words ' An industrial training board may, with the consent of the Commission given with the approval of the Minister, exercise such functions in connection with training for employment' and at the end of section 14(1) there shall be inserted the words; and the board may enter into agreements for the making of payments to the board in respect of the exercise in pursuance of this subsection of functions by the board.' No. 14, in page 48, line 48, at end insert: 13.—(1) An industrial training board may, with the consent of the Commission given with the approval of the Minister, exercise such functions in connection with training for employment outside Great Britain of persons temporarily in Great Britain as are exercisable by it under subsections (1) and (4) of section 2 of this Act in connection with the training of persons employed or intending to be employed in the industry for which the board is established; and the board may enter into agreements for the making of payments to the board in respect of the exercise in pursuance of this subsection of functions by the board. No. 15, in page 51, line 39, at end insert: 7A. In section 14(1) of the Act for the words from the beginning to" carried on" there shall be substituted the words" An industrial training board may, with the consent of the Minister, exercise such functions in connection with training for employment."

§ Mr. Chichester-Clark
The main amendments are those to Parts I and III of Schedule 2. The others are consequential.
The amendment to Part I of Schedule 2 means that a training board will be able to take the initiative in suggesting that it might exercise its powers in relation to people temporarily in Great Britain and intending to be employed outside Great Britain, but that its exercise of any such powers should be subject to the consent of the commission, given with the approval of the Secretary of State.
The amendments preserve the position that money raised by levy on industry may not be used for this purpose, so the finance for any such help for overseas students would have to come either from the students or the foreign governments 1486 in question, from the overseas development administration, or possibly—if export promotion was involved—from the Department of Trade and Industry.