§ Mr. H. MORRISONasked the Minister of Pensions whether he is aware that the delay in the provision of vocational training for discharged disabled men is causing great dissatisfaction throughout the country; and what steps he proposes to take to remedy this state of things?
§ Dr. MACNAMARAI have been asked to reply to this question. As I mentioned yesterday, in my reply to my hon. Friend the Member for Saffron Walden Division (Sir A. Beck), the waiting list is, I am sorry to say, a long one, although it has been reduced during the present year from 27,000 to 24,000. My hon. Friend will readily understand the nature of the difficulties which we have to overcome. Questions of premises, equipment and tools arise, and then there is the discus- 633W sion with the Local Technical Advisory Committee as to whether trainees should be added to the numbers already included in the respective crafts. I explained that there had been much greater expedition in most of these matters recently, and I repeat that, so far as I am concerned, my aim is to secure still more.