Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Employment – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 20 July 1964.
Is it not appalling that the Government, having had four years' notice of this additional need for factory inspectors for registering offices, should still find themselves short of factory inspectors? Can he say how many we are short of at the present time? Will he consider whether, in the interim period, during the initial part of the registration of offices and shops, it will be possible to use Ministry of Labour Grade 5 officers as aides to factory inspectors purely for the registration of offices and shops? This does not seem something for which it is necessary to train factory inspectors.