Mr. Fred Evansasked the Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity if she will provide extended facilities for the retraining of mineworkers made redundant by pit closures and for others now unemployed in the Caerphilly constituency.
§ Mr. HattersleyMost of the retraining required is likely to be at operator level and can best be given by employers with the help of the Industrial Training Boards and of the Government grants which are available to assist such training in Development Areas. Mineworkers and others in the Caerphilly area who want and are suitable for the accelerated training for skill given by Government training centres can obtain it at the Cardiff centre, which is within daily travelling distance, or at any of the other 38 centres where the trade of their choice is taught. Another centre within daily travel of Caerphilly is to be opened in West Monmouthshire in 1970.