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mg hot summer,
IE FUTURE of the Road Transport Indus, Training Board will be decided by the wernment next summer.
And it will not necessarily depend on the dings of the Manpower Services Cornssion which is to review each of the 24 lining boards, as Employment Secretary mes Prior made plain in the Commons week.
"We shall await the outcome of the rem, but we intend to seek powers to ,olish an industrial training board where a judge it right to do so, and not only on e basis of an MSC recommendation," he Id MPs.
On the other hand, he said that national iorities might necessitate the continua)fl of a statutory training board, even here some employers are opposed it it. Consultations have shown widespread ipport for industrial training bodies of ime kind. But there is a strong difference view about whether such arrangeants • should continue on a statutory isis, observed Mr Prior. In principle, it seems right that where a board continues on a statutory basis, the costs should be met by employers; but the Government recognises the difficulties many firms would find in meeting any significant extra costs at present.
It was the Government's present intention that the Exchquer funding of boards' operating costs should be reduced in one way or another in 1981/82 and cease altogether in 1982/83, But the Government would be prepared • to consider the timing in the light of the review.
Close parliamentary scrutiny has to be maintained on the levy-raising powers of the boards, said Mr Prior. And no change was proposed in the present arrangements whereby levies could not exceed one per cent of payroll, except by parliamentary resolution.
The necessary legislation for these changes would be brought before parliament in the New Year, forecast Mr Prior.