§ Mr. James Hamiltonasked the Secretary of State for Employment (1) how many youths who participated in the employment industrial training board award schemes in Lanarkshire have entered Government Departments;
(2) how many youths in Scotland who participated in employment industrial training board award schemes have entered employment in Government Departments;
(3) how many youths who participated in the employment industrial training board award schemes have entered employment with Government Departments.
§ Mr. Chichester-ClarkThe primary purpose of the award schemes is to increase the number of apprentices in industry and this is the reason why the training boards concerned are sharing the cost of the scheme with the Government. The placing of award holders in employment outside the industries covered by the boards is therefore exceptional. However, eight youths who received awards under the schemes run in 1971–72 by a number of industrial training boards entered the employment of Government Departments. None of these was in Scotland.