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Before Parliament adjourned for the summer recess, there was a debate in the Commons on the Engineering ITB. This was raised by Mr Bernard Weatherill (Cons, Croydon N.E) who said that on the surface they could be forgiven for thinking that everything in the training garden was beautiful, but he was afraid that in the engineering garden they had a number of serpents. They certainly did not have adequate training facilities. The Minister estimated that for first‐year training in the industry no specific grant would be paid for 1965–66 and that only £7½ million was expected to be paid in 1966–67, out of a total of £75 million produced by the levy. That meant that the Board did not really expect more than about 15 per cent of firms in the industry to comply with its published first‐year integrated training requirements. The Board's training council required a first‐year apprentice to follow a syllabus covering eight or nine different topics, from electrical work to metalwork.