Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Employment – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 8 July 1947.
Mr George Isaacs
, Southwark North
12:00,
8 July 1947
I hope that it will be possible to do what the hon. Gentleman asks, because this is a very interesting piece of work. The total number of persons on the register is 700,000, and 64,000 is not a large proportion of that number, but far too many to be left without any work. The problem is to get special factories built to take these workers.