§ Mr. Hancockasked the Secretary of State for Employment what steps are being taken to provide additional equipment grants and help with staff salaries to enable information technology centres to continue to work.
§ Mr. Peter Morrison[pursuant to his reply, 19 July 1985, c. 297–98]: The Manpower Services Commission has made available extra funds to enable those information technology centres exhausting their entitlement to the Department of Trade and Industry's financial support to sustain staff salaries at the levels previously paid. This transitional funding by the Commission will be available until the end of October 1985 when each centre completing its first three years of operation should be in a position to operate without further pump-priming funding from the Department of Trade and Industry.