§ Mr. Hazellasked the Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity, whether she is satisfied that the machinery of the Agricultural, Horticultural and Forestry Industry Training Board is adequate to enforce payment of levies on employers who refuse to pay; and if she will make a statement.
§ Mr. HattersleyIt is for the Board itself to decide how best to ensure payment of levy, but I am satisfied that by virtue of the Industrial Training Levy (Agricultural, Horticultural and Forestry) Order, 1967 the Board is entitled to enforce payment. The relevant Articles of the Board's Levy Order are similar to those used in Levy Orders for other Industrial Training Boards, several of which have already successfully instituted proceedings in the Courts for the recovery of sums due by way of levy.