§ Mr. SheermanTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment whether he will list the current members of the National Council for Vocational Qualifications and give the relevant experience of each member; how many of the council are female; and what percentage of the total membership they comprise.
Mr. JacksonA list of the 13 current members of the National Council for Vocational Qualifications and their experience is given below.
CHAIRMAN
Sir Bryan Nicholson: Chairman of the Post Office; the Council for National Academic Awards; the Industrial Society; the CBI Task Force on Vocatonal Education and Training. Formerly Chairman of Rank Xerox and of the Manpower Services Commission.
MEMBERS
Gerald Brinsdon: Chairman of the West Midlands Engineering Careers Co-ordinating Organisation, an 69W adviser to the Association of Metropolitan Authorities Education Committee and a member of the Engineering Careers Information Service steering committee. Until recently Chief Education Officer for Sandwell.
Ken Graham CBE: Formerly Deputy General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress, 1985–87. He has been a member of the board of Remploy Ltd. since 1987 and was formerly a Commissioner of the MSC 1974–87.
Peter Reay CBE: Has held a wide range of personnel and management positions within Cadbury Schweppes PLC becoming Group Personnel Director in 1981 from which he retired recently.
Ron Shepherd: OBE Recently retired as Manager, Education Training and Personnel Services at the Ford Motor Company.
Barry Barker MBE: Recently retired as Secretary and Chief Executive, Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators (formerly Chartered Institute of Secretaries) following a career in industry and management.
Dr. John Capey: Worked in industry as a production manager before moving into education. Has a Doctorate in education. Is currently Principal of Exeter College. He is a mentor of the Business Technician Education Council and of the CPVE Joint Board.
Hywel Davies: Personnel Manager of South Wales Electricity Board.
Barney Gibbens OBE: Co-founder of Computer Analysts Programmes Ltd (the CAP Group) in May 1962. This company merged in July 1988 with a large French systems house and changed its name to SEMA Group Plc—of which company he is Chairman.
Gill Lewis: Has a degree in Chemistry from Oxford. She is
Full time employees on adult rates whose pay for the survey period was not affected by absence Percentage with weekly earnings less than £180 (ex overtime) Manual Women Non-manual All Manual Men Non-manual All Scotland 89.7 55.1 62.9 50.1 16.3 34.3 Borders .. .. 84.1 62.3 .. .. Central 96.8 65.5 74.9 41.9 13.3 29.5 Dumfries and Galloway .. .. 72.9 48.2 .. 40.0 Fife 89.9 57.4 67.7 46.9 19.3 35.1 Grampian .. 52.4 60.8 49.3 7.9 30.8 Highland .. 64.5 69.6 54.2 .. 39.2 Lothian 86.0 52.8 58.1 54.7 18.0 34.7 Strathclyde 86.5 53.4 60.8 47.3 16.4 32.9 Tayside 95.8 57.8 67.8 62.3 19.8 43.2 Islands .. .. .. .. .. 35.1 Highland and islands .. 58.5 65.0 53.4 16.5 38.2 Great Britain 85.2 46.3 54.4 43.5 13.5 28.6 Source: NES 1990.
NB ".." denotes sampling errors too large or numbers to small for reliable information.
Full time employees on adult rates whose pay for the survey period was not affected by absence Percentage with weekly earnings less than £170 (ex overtime) April 1990 Manual Women Non-manual All Manual Men Non-manual All Scotland 84.7 49.1 57.2 42.0 13.8 28.9 Borders .. .. 80.5 54.1 .. .. Central 88.9 59.5 68.2 32.7 10.2 23.0 Dumfries and Galloway .. .. 65.6 42.6 .. 35.2 Fife 87.3 54.4 64.9 40.2 16.0 29.9 Grampian .. 46.9 55.3 41.9 6.6 26.2 Highland .. 60.3 66.2 47.9 .. 34.7 Lothian 81.4 45.2 50.9 45.6 15.4 29.1 Strathclyde 81.2 47.5 55.1 39.1 14.3 27.5 Tayside 89.5 52.2 62.0 53.2 16.2 36.6 Islands .. .. .. .. .. 31.2 Highland and islands .. 55.1 62.3 47.1 15.0 33.9 Great Britain 80.7 40.8 49.1 36.4 11.1 23.8 Source:
NES 1990.
NB ".." denotes sampling errors too large or numbers too small for reliable information.
70Wa "former business woman of the year" and is currently the Director of Human Resources at Courtaulds plc.
John Spence OBE: Chairman of the Northern Ireland Training Authority 1984–89. Chairman of the Training and Employment Agency for Northern Ireland since 1989. Chairman of Richardsons Fertilisers Ltd.
John Barnes: Lecturer in Political Science at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He has been Chairman of the Kent Education Committee, and is currently a member of the Council for National Academic Awards.
George Wycherley: Director and General Manager of Motherwell Bridge Fabricators Ltd. He was Chairman of the Manpower Services Commission's Area Manpower Board for Lanarkshire.
There is currently one vacancy on the council. Of the 13 current members one is female, representing 7.7 per cent. of the total membership.