PARLIAMENTARY REPORT: The Expansion of the Training Centres Available to Purchase

During the Budget debates, the Minister of Labour gave details of the expansion of the Government Training Centres, Of the total of 18 new centres, six would be in Scotland — in Motherwell, Dunfermline, Glasgow (in addition to the existing centre at Hillington), Dumbarton, Irvine and Greenock. Two would be in the North‐East, at Tursdale, near Durham, and at Middlesbrough. There would also be considerable expansion of the existing centre at Felling, near Newcastle. In Lancashire, there were to be three new centres at Blackburn, Liverpool and Wigan, and in Yorkshire two, at Hull and Sheffield. In addition, he intended to re‐open the centre at Long Eaton, in Nottinghamshire, put one centre at Llanelly in West Wales, one in Gloucester, one at Southampton, and one in the London area, at Stratford.