Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Industry, Trade and Regional Development – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 18 June 1964.
Mr James Dempsey
, Coatbridge and Airdrie
12:00,
18 June 1964
Is the Minister aware that he has not yet told us anything about the number of jobs which will be provided? Is it not contradictory that the chairman of the industrial estate has issued a statement to all the Scottish Press as to the number of factories to be built, but the Minister tells us today that he is unable to make any statement? Will he bear in mind the fact that nearly 10,000 people are unemployed at the moment and that that situation will be seriously aggravated by the school-leavers next week? Will he "get cracking" with the building of this new estate?
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