Cotton Industry (Re-equipment Grants)

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Trade and Commerce – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 28 November 1961.

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Photo of Mrs Barbara Castle Mrs Barbara Castle , Blackburn 12:00, 28 November 1961

I did not misunderstand the hon. Gentleman. Is it not a fact that when the Bill was before the House the Government estimated that the re-equipment grants would total at least £20 million? Is not this £8·6 million in applications for grant seriously below that figure, and does it not reflect the growing breakdown of morale in the cotton industry due to the crisis there? What is the hon. Gentleman going to do about it?