Industrial Training Levy (Engineering Construction Industry Training Board) Order 2008

Will the Minister clarify the situation? I think I am right in saying that, as a result of the Further Education and Training Act, the only difference is that the boards do not have to come to Parliament every year to ask it to renew the order, as we have been doing today. This is therefore the last occasion that we shall be doing this. Equally, the concept of the industrial training board remains. I take it that the statutory framework, which stems from 1981-82, remains the same—that is, where an industry voluntarily requires a training board, it may have one, as has happened with the film industry. In the background, with Leitch, there is also a slight indication that post-2010, if companies do not come up with the training pledge, there may be some other form of statutory encouragement to training.