Mr. Colin Jacksonasked the Minister of Overseas Development what funds were made available to the International Labour Organisation Training Centre at Turin and to what extent the facilities of the Centre are brought to the attention of Commonwealth students who apply to her for, but are unable to obtain, practical training facilities in the United Kingdom.
§ Mrs. HartI would refer my hon. Friend to the reply my predecessor gave to a Question from my hon. Friend the Member for Woolwich, West (Mr. Hamling) on 22nd May, 1969 in which he announced the approval of a grant-in-aid of £100,000, tied to expenditure in the United Kingdom or on British goods and services.
257WTraining facilities which are made available by my Ministry under its own Technical Assistance schemes or under territory-financed arrangement are provided on a government-to-government basis. Any student from a Commonwealth (or from a non-Commonwealth) developing country who might apply to me for practical or other forms of training would be advised to get in touch with his own government to find out if they would be willing to ask us for training facilities to be made available to him on their behalf. I have no reason to doubt that the alternative of using the facilities of the Turin Centre would be considered by the developing country government at that stage.—[Vol. 784, c. 141–2.]