Migration

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Commonwealth Relations – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 29 November 1962.

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Photo of Mr John Tilney Mr John Tilney , Liverpool Wavertree 12:00, 29 November 1962

I am sure that my hon. Friend will appreciate the difficulty of asking the taxpayers of this country to provide resources for, say, housing in some other part of the world when new housing here is rightly considered to have a high social priority. The Dutch and Italian schemes which my hon. Friend mentioned spring from a special need for these countries to encourage migration to relieve shortages of land and of jobs which are more serious than those with which we have to contend.