§ Sir W. Darlingasked the Minister of Labour the capital cost of Granton Building Training Centre; its present monthly 15W training cost; and its monthly output of trained craftsmen.
§ Mr. IsaacsThe capital cost (borne on the Vote for the Ministry of Works) of the Granton Government Training Centre was £170,000. The present running cost, which includes maintenance allowances paid to the trainees and certain common service expenditure in connection with an Industrial Rehabilitation Unit recently installed in the Centre, is about £2,500 a month. As to the last part of the Question, this Centre originally trained only in the building crafts, so that the great majority of the 1,263 who have completed their training there in the last two years are in those occupations. At present, as a result of the restrictions on building training, the Centre is in the process of being brought into full use for training of other kinds so that most of the trainees there are at an early stage in their courses, whilst in other cases classes are still in course of arrangement or transfer from an old Centre which is being closed.