Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Public Building and Works – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 18 February 1964.
Mr Charles Pannell
, Leeds West
12:00,
18 February 1964
May I repeat a question that I first put to the Minister when this matter was first raised? Since this proposal was first mooted, has he set up any organisation or made any efforts in his own Department to see that these yards get customers, bearing in mind that in the early days of production there is bound to be certain price disparity because other factories are often better laid out to do this work? Does he appreciate that this industry needs nursing during the trial period if it is to compete commercially?
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