Those seven points could possibly deal with the Crisis in the Construction Industry.

For example, although there is a serious Crisis in the Construction Industry at present there are parts of the country which require skilled construction workers and cannot get them.

As far as I am aware, there is no great Crisis in the Construction Industry in Japan, although many firms have 100 per cent.

While the Opposition support the order and congratulate the CITB on its work and the challenges that it has met over the past years, and, indeed, over the past year, and although the hour is late, I want to take the Minister to task briefly for not acknowledging tonight that there is a real Crisis in the Construction Industry.

I beg to move,That this House notes the abysmal failure of the Government's housing policy which after 12 years has resulted in record mortgage levels, record homelessness, the collapse of the public and private rented sector and a Crisis in the Construction Industry; and calls on the Government to put forward proposals for a mortgage rescue scheme, an emergency programme to deal with homelessness and a phased release of the capital receipts from the sale of council houses to fund a planned increase in housing investment.

It is not a wonderful innovation, and something more comprehensive is needed to deal with the real Crisis in the Construction Industry.

He will be aware that despite the economic Crisis in the Construction Industry, there are still some good employers who spend money and time training their employees.

My hon. Friendthe Member for Ochil and South Perthshire (Gordon Banks) has rightly highlighted the Crisis in the Construction Industry.

The Budget is made in the context of a Crisis in the Construction Industry, but the Secretary of State did not mention that industry in his statement.

In a debate this morning on the Crisis in the Construction Industry, no Liberal Democrats turned up and one Tory Back Bencher turned up 20 minutes late.

Given the shockingly low number of affordable housing starts - just 454 in the six months from April, a figure that was revealed the day after the Government's much-trumpeted housing strategy - may we have a debate in Government time on the Crisis in Our Construction Industry?