Unemployment

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 17 December 1962.

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Photo of Mr Samuel Silverman Mr Samuel Silverman , Nelson and Colne 12:00, 17 December 1962

Does not the right hon. Gentleman agree that the operation of the Local Employment Act is arbitrary in the extreme and that the decisions taken under it are very hard to justify to the people concerned? The north-east Lancashire belt stretches from my constituency to Burnley and down to the constituency of my hon. Friend the Member for Clitheroe (Mr. F. Pearson). This is a district where unemployment is as high and as persistent as anywhere, but not merely is it not scheduled under the Act but the President of the Board of Trade has refused to discuss it at all with hon. Members representing constituencies in the area.