IN PARLIAMENT

In the course of the Commons debate on manpower training for industry, the Minister of Labour, Mr Ray Gunter, said that in the three and a half years since the first training boards were set up under the Industrial Training Act, there had been unprecedented progress in the development of industrial training. A total of 21 Boards had now been established. Plans to set up another five Boards during 1968 were well advanced. By the end of this year 16 million work‐people would be covered by Boards, out of the 18 million that were estimated to be within the scope of the Act.