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  • Role of Education, Training & Employment in Lifting People out of Poverty (Supplementary) [1]

    • Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
    • Meeting date: 19 July 2006
    Certainly my perception is that the LSC has failed to encourage a breadth of skills training, and that's why we have this deficit in the building trade. Joiners, plumbers, they are all Europeans coming in and filling these jobs, and the indigenous population in young people leaving schools are not getting a chance because they do not have the skills and there is somehow no way that they can get the training. So, I am afraid, this is very true and I see this all the time in my constituencies. There is, actually, a wonderful life for people who have...

  • Role of Education, Training & Employment in Lifting People out of Poverty (Supplementary) [12]

    • Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
    • Meeting date: 19 July 2006
    What I wanted to ask about is the skills shortage that there is in London, and, Mr Ross, you touched on that at the very start of this meeting. There are whole areas of skills in the building trade which we do not have any longer, and so, therefore, people from Europe are walking into jobs here instead of the indigenous population. What I was going to suggest to the Mayor, now he is in charge of the Learning and Skills Board and stuff, and the new strategy, why do we not think of going back to the apprenticeship scheme...

  • LDA spend (Supplementary) [5]

    • Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
    • Meeting date: 17 March 2004
    They want to be able to provide food and drink etc to the businesses that they already supply flowers and vegetables to, for instance into hotels in London.

  • LDA spend (Supplementary) [11]

    • Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
    • Meeting date: 17 March 2004
    Mrs Chapman, I believe that in your strategy you have included food and drink and I am concerned about the Covent Garden Market Nine Elms. In that case, would you support the Covent Garden Market Nine Elms' expansion into this business?