HC Deb 22 January 1968 vol 757 cc25-6W
Mr. Willey

asked the Minister of Labour what new courses for industrial retraining are being provided at Government training centres in the Northern Region during 1968.

Mr. Hattersley

The 1968 expansion programme provides for 28 new classes at Government Training Centres in the Northern Region. They will include new trades (electrical fitting, electronic wiring and circuit testing, and boring machine setting/operating) and some modernised courses in existing trades. These classes will be provided in the extensions to the Billingham, Felling, and Killingworth Centres and at the new Centre which is to be set up at Maryport. Nearly all should be in operation by the end of 1968.