§ Mrs. Renée Shortasked the Secretary of State for Employment (1) if he will ensure that no decision will be taken with regard to the future of the Road Transport Industry Training Board without full consultation with all those concerned;
(2) what consultations he has had, and with whom, concerning the future of the Road Transport Industry Training Board.
§ Mr. Peter MorrisonThe Manpower Services Commission is conducting a sector by sector review of arrangements for promoting industrial training, and as part of that review the commission is carrying out wide-ranging consultations with representative employer and employee organisations, public sector employers in scope to boards, and industrial training boards themselves. These consultations apply to the road transport sector in the same way as to others. My right hon. Friend will not take a decision on the future of any industrial training board until after the completion of this review, which he will consider very carefully.
§ Mrs. Renée Shortasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will make a statement on the work that has been done by the Road Transport Industry Training Board.
§ Mr. Peter MorrisonThe Road Transport Industry Training Board's principal objective is to ensure that adequate training is provided for all types of employee in the road transport industry.
The board's annual reports set out in considerable detail what it has done in seeking to achieve its objective. Copies of these reports are laid before Parliament and are available in the Library.