§ Sir John Biggs-DavisonTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment what information he has on the extent of recruitment of hotel staff in France, for want of people in Britain to fill full-time vacancies; and what steps his Department and the Manpower Services Commission are taking to help fill such vacancies from among the unemployed.
§ Mr. LeeWe believe that British hoteliers seeking staff from France do so mainly through non-official contacts, rather than the employment service. There is, therefore, no information available about the scale of recruitment. The British employment service has direct links with the French employment service, but no hotel workers have been recruited by this method in recent years. Within 205W Great Britain, the employment service and the Manpower Services Commission work together to help employers recruit and train the staff they need. The commission also supports initiatives by the hotel and catering industry training board to improve training and career arrangements, and funds provision of places on YTS and the job training scheme in hotel and catering occupations.