Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Industry, Trade and Regional Development – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 11 June 1964.
Is the Minister aware that many miners and their families are having to leave my constituency to find work in other parts of the country as a result of the contraction of the mining industry in that area and the absence of alternative employment there? Does not he agree that it is essential for alternative industry to be provided in Consett and Stanley? Does he not also agree that industrialists are more likely to site their industries in areas where factory buildings already exist rather than have to wait for months for such accommodation to be built?