The fact is that this country faces a Training Crisis.
Does not the Minister frankly acknowledge that the growth of the lump in recent years has been a major factor which has aggravated the Training Crisis in the construction industry?
That is the extent of the Training Crisis caused by the slump and the recession engineered by the economic policies of the Government.
Does my hon. Friend agree that one of the reasons for the Training Crisis in the engineering industry is the high wage rates that have been negotiated by trade unions for young people entering the industry by?
There is a Crisis in Training for the construction industry as a whole.
That is another reason for the Training Crisis in construction.
Now that the Secretary of State has admitted that we are facing a Training Crisis, will he also admit that the Government abolished three quarters of the industrial training boards and closed down skill centres, which were making profits?
Until about seven o'clock there will be a debate entitled "The Crisis in Training".
That is a major reason why we have a Crisis in Training in Scotland and throughout the United Kingdom.
I cannot let the opportunity pass without talking about the Crisis in Training, which the Minister of State will consider in detail following the establishment of the training and enterprise councils.
The debate about the Crisis in Training should not get bogged down in the immediate technical problems of how it is delivered, although such problems urgently need to be tackled.
they need only read the report published by the CBI a few months ago which said that £800 million more had to be spent on training and which drew attention to the Training Crisis which has developed as a result of the Government's policies.
If people have any doubts about the Training Crisis that this country faces, they need not read Labour party or Trades Union Congress documents; they need only read the report published by the CBI a few months ago which said that £800 million more had to be spent on training and which drew attention to the training crisis which has developed as a result of the Government's policies.
The Government also failed to address the Crisis in Training that they have perpetuated and intensified.
He said a good deal about a Crisis in the Training 358 of our supposedly ill-trained work force.
Why do we constantly hear fiddled figures from the Department of Employment about our Crisis in Training?
The Government are not dealing with the Crisis in Training, with the crisis in the quality of training or with the lack of full-time employment opportunities at the end of training.