§ Mr. Tony Banksasked the Secretary of State for Employment (1) which non-statutory training organisations have board or equivalent level membership for relevant trade union or education representatives; and which are governed solely by employer representatives;
(2) if he will provide figures showing the overall operating budgets of industry training boards and non-statutory training organisations in 1984–85, distinguishing industry funding from Manpower Services Commission funding;
(3) if he will detail which industry training boards and non-statutory training organisations currently operate more than three offices and training centres nationally; and if he will state how many they operate, and the number of industry training board offices and training centres which have closed since 1981, for each industry training board;
(4) if he will give figures for the number of staff employed by industry training boards in 1979 and by industry training boards and non-statutory training organisations together in 1984, broken down into permanent staff and staff funded on a 12-month basis by the Manpower Services Commission;
(5) what are the current arrangements for monitoring the provision by employers of post youth training scheme training and the match of this training to skill requirements;
(6) how the effectiveness of the non-statutory training organisations which replaced some industry training hoards in predicting, measuring and meeting their industry's needs, is being measured.
§ Mr. Peter MorrisonI shall reply to the hon. Member as soon as possible.