Clause 1. — (Purpose for Which Part 1 Powers Exercisable, and Duration of Powers.)

Part of Orders of the Day — Local Employment Bill – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 1 December 1959.

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Photo of Mr Thomas Fraser Mr Thomas Fraser , Hamilton 12:00, 1 December 1959

Is the hon. Gentleman aware that some of us from this Box, and elsewhere in the House, have said many times that by 1949 so much factory building was approved in Development Areas that the time had come to stop approvals to enable the work which had been approved to be completed. In those circumstances, would it not be fair if the hon. Gentleman were to look at the completions in Development Areas between 1949 and 1951 as against completions elsewhere and then compare the situation with the last two years of the previous Government?