§ Mr. PaiceTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment (1) what level of funding and what percentage of the training within each industry is provided by the statutory training boards;
(2) in each industry for which statutory training boards exist, what is the estimated amount of funding spent on training outside the training boards.
§ Mr. CopeThe information is not available in the forms requested. Details of the activities of industrial training boards are published in their annual reports, which are available in the House of Commons Library.
§ Mr. PaiceTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment what relationships he envisages between statutory and non-statutory training boards and training and enterprise councils.
§ Mr. CopeIndustrial training organisations, whether statutory or non-statutory, have important sectoral training roles including standard settings which were set out in the White Paper "Employment for the 1990s". The TECs will not set their own standards. We expect that ITOs and TECs will seek to work together to promote training and enterprise among employers in particular sectors at local level.