Advance Factory, Stranraer

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Industry, Trade and Regional Development – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 11 June 1964.

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Photo of Sir David Price Sir David Price , Eastleigh 12:00, 11 June 1964

The answer to the last part of my hon. Friend's supplementary question is "No, Sir", but to get the scale of the residual problem right it should be remembered that the prospective tenant of this advance factory is likely to provide, initially, 300 jobs—true with a bias towards employment for women—rising to about 500 jobs. The unemployment figure for Stranraer for April, 1964, was 475, so the residual problem is not very great, and the full benefits of the Local Employment Act remain for Stranraer as a development district.