HC Deb 24 October 1968 vol 770 cc324-5W
39. Mr. Silvester

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science how much of the levies raised by industrial training boards have been used to finance training in colleges of further education.

Mrs. Shirley Williams

Where colleges of further education provide training of a kind for which industry is normally responsible, they are advised to charge an economic fee for the service. The fee is payable by the trainees' employers, who may in appropriate cases claim grant from their industrial training boards in respect of the expenditure. I regret that I cannot estimate the total amount paid to colleges in fees for training courses of this kind.