National Skills Task Force

HC Deb 21 January 2003 vol 398 cc251-3W

Dr. Vincent Cable

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills who the members of the National Skills Task Force have been since its inception; what(a) expenses and (b) salary each received; and if he will make a statement. [91658]

Mr. Ivan Lewis

The Skills Task Force was established as an Executive NDPB by the previous Secretary of State for Education and Skills to advise him on the

Skills Task Force members
Name	Organisation	Position
Chris Humphries CBE	British Chambers of Commerce (BCC), London Tel. [phone]	Director General Chairman of Skill Task Force
Llew Aviss	Llew Aviss Associates Tel. [phone]	Managing Director
Rita Britton	Pollyanna (Barnsley) Ltd. Tel [phone]	Director
Tony Dubbins	Graphical, Paper & Media Union, Bedford Tel. [phone]	General Secretary
Eric Drewery	ABB Ltd., London Tel. [phone]	Chief Executive Officer
John Edmonds	GM B, London Tel. [phone]	General Secretary
Denise Hall	BT plc, London Tel. [phone]	Head of Government Health and Education Services
Sir Ken Jackson	AEEU, Kent Tel. [phone]	General Secretary
Dr. DeAnne Julius	Bank of England, London Tel. [phone]	Member Monetary Policy Committee
Eddie Maclntyre CBE	Birmingham College of Food, Tourism and Creative Studies Tel. [phone] (ext. 234)	Principal
Ashwin Mistry OBE	Brett & Randall Insurance Brokers, Leicester Tel. [phone]	Managing Director Board Member Leicestershire TEC
Terry Morgan	British Aerospace Centre, Hampshire Tel: [phone]	Director of Personnel
John V. Palmer	Works from home Tel. [phone]	Chairman—Steel Industry's NTO Chair of Steel Training Ltd.
Peter Rainbird CBE	Rainbird Group, Essex Tel. [phone]	Chairman/Chief Executive Chairman, Essex TEC
lain Roxburgh	Coventry City Council Tel. [phone]	Chief Executive and Town Clerk
Sharon studer	3 COM Europe Ltd., Hemel Hempstead Tel. [phone]	Vice President
Julia Tinsley	Pitman Training Centre, Sheffield Tel. [phone]	Director

extent and nature of skills shortages and skills gaps and assist him on the development of a national skills agenda.

The Skills Task Force operated from April 1998 to June 2000 under the chairmanship of Chris Humphries, currently Director-General of City and Guilds, and represented the private sector, trade unions, FE and HE, local authorities, and National Training Organisations. A list of members follows.

As an Executive NDPB, Task Force members were not paid a salary, only reimbursed for their travelling costs to attend monthly meetings.

On 27 June 2000, the Task Force's fourth and final report, "Skills for all: proposals for a National Skills Agenda", was published. The report set out their recommendations drawn from their work programme over the last two years.

The Secretary of State for Education and Employment provided a final response to the work of the Skills Task Force in the pamphlet, "Opportunity and Skills in the Knowledge-Driven Economy", launched alongside the "Opportunity for All in a World of Change" White Paper on 13 February 2001.

Following these reports, much work has been taken forward that will be reflected in the Government's Skills Strategy which will be published in June 2003. This will be a major cross government strategy drawing together policies for meeting the skill needs of the economy and showing how this will raise productivity.

Skills Task Force members
Name	Organisation	Position
Adair Turner	Confederation of British Industry, London Tel. [phone]	Director-General
Prof. Leslie Wagner CBE	Leeds Metropolitan University Tel. [phone]	Vice Chancellor
Anne Weinstock CBE	Rathbone CI, Manchester (on secondment to DfEE, Millennium Volunteers Unit, Sheffield) Tel. [phone]	Chief Executive