Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Trade and Commerce – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 22 January 1959.
Mr Reginald Prentice
, East Ham North
12:00,
22 January 1959
The right hon. Gentleman refers to 500 or 1,000 new jobs, but is not that a pathetically small total compared with the figure of 100,000 registered unemployed in these areas and about 500,000 unemployed over the country as a whole? Does it not show that this policy is bound to fail unless it is applied against a background of an expanding economy?
