Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Employment – in the House of Commons am 12:00 am ar 29 Ionawr 1991.
Michael Martin
, Glasgow Springburn
12:00,
29 Ionawr 1991
The Secretary of State must know that every employer, particularly in engineering, is short of skilled labour because major redundancies in engineering in the past 10 years have meant that there has been no training of apprentices. Should not we take a leaf out of the Germans' book and train more apprentices, particularly adult apprentices?
Secretary of State was originally the title given to the two officials who conducted the Royal Correspondence under Elizabeth I. Now it is the title held by some of the more important Government Ministers, for example the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
