§ 42. Mrs. Doris Fisherasked the Secretary of State for Employment what proportion of notified unfilled vacancies are in trades connected with the building and construction industry.
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§ Mr. Chichester-ClarkOn 6th June 1973, 7.8 per cent. of all notified unfilled vacancies in Great Britain were in the construction industry.
§ 43. Mr. David Mitchellasked the Secretary of State for Employment what is the average sum per head of employees in the construction industry spent by the Construction Industry Training Board on training, and the comparative sum per head spent by the local government industrial training boards on workers engaged in construction and maintenance.
§ Mr. Chichester-ClarkComparisons between expenditure by training boards are apt to be misleading because the figures do not show how much industries are spending on training. The Construction Industry Training Board spent £11.9 million in 1971–72 on grants to encourage training and on its own training services, and firms with about 1.1 million employees paid levy to it. No comparable figures relating to construction and maintenance workers are available from the Local Government Training Board.