§ 27. Sir E. Brownasked the Minister of Labour how many people have entered retraining courses since 20th July, 1966.
§ Mr. HattersleyStatistics of people entering training courses under Ministry of Labour schemes are collected quarterly. Between 14th June, 1966, and 13th March, 1967, the latest date for which figures are available, a total of 10,386 people entered courses at Government training centres and courses of training sponsored by the Ministry at other establishments. In addition, a considerable amount of retraining is carried out in industry with the encouragement of industrial training boards.