Examination of Witnesses (Questions 138-139)
CONSTRUCTIONSKILLS
27 NOVEMBER 2007
Q138 Chairman: Gentlemen, welcome. Thank
you very much for coming today, and thank you for your evidence.
Can you introduce yourselves for the record and also perhaps say
a little bit about what ConstructionSkills does to meet the needs
of the sector?
Sir Michael Latham: I am Chairman
of ConstructionSkills. I have with me Peter Rogerson, Deputy Chairman,
we are both non executive, and Peter Lobban, chief executive of
ConstructionSkills, who runs the organisation.
Q139 Chairman: Tell us about the
organisation.
Sir Michael Latham: We do two
things basically. We are an Industry Training Board with statutory
levy raising powers and have been so since the Act was passed
in 1964 and then revised in 1982, but we are also a sector skills
council representing the whole industry including other partners,
the Construction Industry Council whom I believe you have already
seen, and also the Northern Ireland Construction Industry Training
Board, which is a separate body, and as ConstructionSkills we
are involved with the whole of the construction industry including
professional consultants and so on throughout the whole United
Kingdom. but as the Construction Industry Training Board we are
only responsible for England, Scotland and Wales.
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