Construction Industry Training Board

HC Deb 23 February 1993 vol 219 c561W

Mr. Spellar

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment when she will make a statement on the future of the construction industry training board.

Mr. McLoughlin

I am pleased to announce that the review of the construction industry training board has now been completed.

While it remains Government policy that sector training arrangements should normally be non-statutory, the Government are persuaded that different considerations apply in the building and civil engineering industries. My right hon. Friend has therefore decided that the CITB will be reconstituted as a statutory training board for a five-year period with effect from 1 May 1993.