Youth Training Scheme

HC Deb 15 November 1982 vol 32 c24W

Mr. Marlow

asked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will make a statement on the new youth training scheme.

Mr. Peter Morrison

I refer my hon. Friend to the reply I gave him on 19 October.—[Vol. 29, c.218.]

Mr. Harold Walker

asked the Secretary of State for Employment (1) what arrangements he is making to ensure that when the youth training scheme, provided for in the new training initiative of the Manpower Services Commission, becomes operative, employers do not substitute trainees under the scheme for their regular apprentice intake;

(2)if he intends that employers should continue to observe the relevant national and local agreements about apprentice rates of pay where trainees under the new youth training scheme are undergoing the same training as apprentices in the same establishment.

Mr. Peter Morrison

Collective agreements, on apprentice training as on other subjects, are a matter for the parties to the agreements, and not for the Government or the Manpower Services Commission.

The general question of the relationship between apprentice training and the youth training scheme will be considered by the youth training board, on which the Confederation of British Industry and the Trades Union Congress are represented.