Industry, Employment and Roads

Part of Scotland – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 2 July 1959.

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Photo of Mr Cyril Bence Mr Cyril Bence , Dunbartonshire East 12:00, 2 July 1959

I am glad my hon. Friend mentioned that case. It is the last but one on my list. I have eliminated a lot and I was proposing to eliminate that one, because I felt sure my hon. Friend would mention it if he had an opportunity to speak in this debate.

There is the Crown Cork Company of Scotstoun. That has gone, with 600 workers redundant. So we have the extraordinary picture that during the last eight years this Government have tried, by legislation and all sorts of inducements, and by extending the activities of the National Assistance Board to investors, to get industry to come to Scotland; while at the same time they have been watching industry go out of Scotland. As I have said once before, we have never had such comings and goings in the history of this country since the grand old Duke of York marched 10,000 men up the hill and then marched them down again.