Yes, it's 1.6 per cent despite protests
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MR. RAY GUNTER, Minister of Labour, on Tuesday approved the proposals submitted by the Road Transport Industry Training Board for a levy equal to 1.6 per cent of employers' total payrolls for the year ended April 5,1967.
RTITB director-general Mr. Eric Tindall (CM, June 23) has already said that to reduce to a minimum the period between collecting money from industry and returning it in the form of grants, the levy will be payable in two instalments-0.5 per cent in October this year and 1.1 per cent in March, 1968.
The dates
The money will be used to pay grants for training carried out between August 1,1967, and July 31, 1968, but the Board will be prepared to accept claims on January 1, 1968, for training done between August 1 and December 31, 1967.
It is proposed that grants will be paid for management, professional, graduate and technologist training as well as operative, craft, technician, sales and clerical tuition.
The levy proposals were agreed at a Board meeting on June 19 and presented to the Minister for approval, as required by the Industrial Training Act, early in July.
I understand that Tuesday's announcement had been delayed because so many representations were made to the Minister.
The Board is now considering the provision of centres for training drivers, Mr. Peter Haxby, RTITB director of training, told 70 employer/delegates at a one-day conference last week organized by Bradford Technical College.
To maintain present standards, said Mr. Haxby, the road transport industry would need double its present number of mechanics by the 1970s. Expansion of training facilities was vital.
The Board had been established to encourage and improve training already provided within the industry. But in regions where facilities did not exist it would be up to the Board to make the means available —including providing centres to help small firms, in particular, resolve training problems.
DESIGNS FOR SHOW
• THIS YEAR's coachwork competition (organized by the Institute of British Carriage and Automobile Manufacturers) will be judged during the Earls Court Motor Show in October and includes three sections for p.s.v. and commercial vehicle designs: general arrangement drawings of o.m.o. bus and insulated box semi-trailer, and outline drawing of a tipper.
• WALTER EDMUNDSON LTD. on Monday transfers its mainland-to-Isle of Man container service to Glasson Dock (near Lancaster) the new container port.