§ 78. Sir Harmar Nichollsasked the Minister of Labour whether he will take steps to adapt the shorter apprenticeship training time pioneered by a private firm in the engineering industry, details of which have been sent to him, to speed the retraining of the adult miners who will be made redundant under the new National Coal Board scheme to close 150 pits.
§ Mr. ThorntonNo. Any retraining of redundant miners for skilled engineering occupations undertaken by this Department will be in one of the Government training centres where the normal length of course is six months.