Oral Answers to Questions — Unemployment. – in the House of Commons at on 6 July 1937.
Mr. W. Joseph Stewart:
asked the Minister of Labour the nature of the industries that have been and are being started on the Team Valley Trading Estate, county Durham; and whether they are branches of firms already established in the north-east or of firms new to the area?
I am not able to give a complete list of the industries about to be started on the Team Valley Trading Estate, but they include the manufacture of food products, confectionery, clothing, containers, electrical apparatus, furniture, motor bodies, plastic goods and timber products. I am informed that the industries are in the main new to the area, and that in no case are they branches of firms already established in the area.
The answer to the second part of the question is, Yes, Sir. The answer to the first part is that the Special Commissioner takes every step in his power to induce industry to go there.
And that is "nowt."