§ Mr. Bruce-Gardyneasked the Secretary of State for Employment (1) what is the aggregate annual income from all sources, and the aggregate annual expenditure, of each of the industrial training boards; what are the numbers of full-time staff employed by each; and what proportion of the aggregate annual expenditure is, in each case, attributable to the costs of staff remuneration and other benefits;
439W(2) which staff members of industrial training boards serve under contracts of employment by which their salaries are linked to movements in the retail price index; what was the date of the entry into force of such contracts; what is their duration; what was the aggregate cost of their salaries and other remuneration at the date of inception of these contracts; what is the current corresponding figure; what has been the percentage increase in the retail price index during the intervening period; and what has been the percentage increase in the aggregate cost of such remuneration;
(3) if he will publish details in the Official Report of the redundancy fund established by the road transport industrial training board, including the date of its establishment, how it is financed and the amount currently standing to its credit; what are the numbers of potential beneficiaries; what are the amounts paid out in redundancy to date; and if he will enumerate which other industrial training boards have similar funds in operation at the present time;
(4) which officials of which industrial training boards received compensation for contractual earnings forgone owing to the impact of pay control policies in 1975 and 1976; and what was the aggregate cost to public funds of such compensation.
§ Mr. Jim LesterI shall reply to my hon. Friend as soon as possible.