§ 97. Mr. Dodds-Parkerasked the Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity what plans she has to extend facilities for training and retraining those becoming redundant, and to ensure that the jobs for which they are trained will be available when they are fully trained.
§ Mr. HattersleyMost of the retraining required by redundant workers is at operator level and can best be given by their new employers with the help of grants from the Industrial Training Board and Government grants to new and expanding firms in Development Areas. Those suitable for accelerated training for a skilled trade can be trained at a Government Training Centre of which there are now 42 with 13 more to be set up by early 1971. The choice of training trades at the centres is based on the prospective needs of industry, and the great majority of trainees are placed in employment on completion of training or shortly afterwards.