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Mr. Bright
asked the Secretary of State for Employment what is the total level of expenditure incurred by each industrial training board and the amount raised by levies in the industries affected.
Mr. Jim Lester
I refer my hon. Friend to the reply I gave to my hon. Friend the Member for Knutsford (Mr. Bruce-Gardyne) on 3 June.—[Vol. 985. c. 685–86.] Pursuant to that reply, the additional information asked for is as follows :
| Gross income from levy (1978–79) | |
| £m | |
| Air transport and travel | 5·053 |
| Carpet | 0·732 |
| Ceramics glass & mineral products | 2·863 |
| Chemical and allied products | 11·830 |
| Clothing and allied products | 3·202 |
| Construction | 17·385 |
| Cotton and allied textiles | 3·042 |
| Distributive | 22·837 |
| Engineering | 95·817 |
| Food, drink & tobacco | 23·180 |
| Footwear, leather and furskin | 2·301 |
| Foundry industry training committee | 4·287 |
| Furniture & timber | 4·321 |
| Hotel & catering | 5·825 |
| Iron & steel | 10·005 |
| Knitting lace & net | 1·209 |
| Man-made fibre | — |
| Paper & paper products | 3·739 |
| Petroleum | 0·976 |
| Printing & publishing | 7·425 |
| Road transport | 23·101 |
| Rubber and plastics | 6·656 |
| Shipbuilding | 2·780 |
| Wool, jute & flax | 1·353 |
* There are great differences between the policies of boards on exemption from levy. These figures include the amounts of levy income which have been received had boards not operated levy exemption arrangements.