Mr. Les Hucfieldasked the Secretary of State for Employment what estimates he has made of the costs of declaring redundant staffs of industrial training boards as a result of the proposals in the Employment and Training Bill.
§ Mr. Peter MorrisonThe Employment and Training Bill will enable my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State to establish, abolish or change the scope of an industrial training board without a recommendation from the Manpower Services Commission, but after consultation with it. No decisions will be taken on the future of particular boards until the commission has completed its sector-by-sector review of industrial training needs.
Industrial training boards have their own redundancy schemes which are not uniform and I am unable to estimate at the present time the cost of redundancies which may arise from the proposals in the Employment and Training Bill.