Oral Answers to Questions — Employment – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 10 March 1992.
Mr John Marshall
, Hendon South
12:00,
10 March 1992
To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what discussions he has had with the chairman of the North London TEC to discuss the contributions of trade unions to training.
Mr John Marshall
, Hendon South
Is my right hon. and learned Friend aware that the day after the Transport and General Workers Union's disgraceful decision to boycott Government training schemes, the union was described as "the Labour party in so many ways"? Is he aware that the right hon. Gentleman who so described it was none other than the Leader of the Opposition?
Michael Howard
Secretary of State for Employment
I am. The Transport and General Workers Union voted to boycott youth training, to boycott employment training and to boycott the training and enterprise councils. Not a word of condemnation of that disgraceful position has come from the Leader of the Opposition, who is sponsored by that union, or from the Shadow spokesman on employment, who is also sponsored by that union, or by any of the renegade crew who man the Labour front bench.
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