Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Education – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 22 January 1959.
I can assure the hon. Lady that if there are any general shortages or difficulties to which she would like to draw my attention I will look into them. The current five-year programme for the expansion of technical education is designed to secure a significant increase in the output of technicians of all kinds. I can send her a statement of arrangements which have only recently been made to improve the training of industrial draughtsmen and quantity surveyors. If she has any other points in mind, perhaps she will kindly write to me.