§ Mr. Ridleyasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what estimate he has made of the proportion of the managers in British industry who have received some formal external training in management subjects.
§ Mr. CroslandI am sending the hon. Member a copy of a recent report of the National Economic Development Council. This contains the results of a survey showing that 14 per cent. of the executives in the companies which took part had attended external management courses in the three years prior to the survey.