HC Deb 01 July 1991 vol 194 cc71-2W
Mr. Latham

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment whether he will make a statement on the official letter to the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, the hon. Member for Wantage (Mr. Jackson), dated 10 June, sent by the director of the Electrical Contractors Association, detailing the response by training enterprise

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councils to future apprentice training in the electrical contracting industry; and what action he intends to take regarding the problems described in that letter.

Mr. Jackson

All 82 training enterprise councils in England and Wales have offered a youth training (YT) contract to Job Training Ltd. (JTL) which is the managing agency set up by the Electrical Contractors Association (ECA) in conjunction with the Electrical, Electronic, Telecommunications and Plumbing Union. JTL has signed, or is in the process of signing contracts with 80 of the TECs. The company has decided not to contract for places in the Dorset and Somerset TEC areas.

I replied on 28 June to the letter dated 10 June from the director of the Electrical Contractors Association. All problems described in that letter have been addressed.