Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Unemployment. – in the House of Commons at on 6 February 1929.
Mr Arthur Steel-Maitland
, Birmingham Erdington
Without attempting an exhaustive definition of such an area as that to which my hon. Friend alludes, I would say that it must be one in which a large proportion of the industrial population is no longer able, and is unlikely in the future to be able, to find employment within the area.