Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Board of Trade – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 10 December 1964.
Mr Charles Loughlin
, Gloucestershire West
12:00,
10 December 1964
Is my right hon. Friend aware that it is something in the nature of a farce if in the issuing of industrial development certificates for areas of high unemployment factories are drawn from areas of pending high unemployment? Is he aware that in my Constituency A.E.I. has closed a factory with 850 jobs and there are two pits—
In a general election, each Constituency chooses an MP to represent them. MPs have a responsibility to represnt the views of the Constituency in the House of Commons. There are 650 Constituencies, and thus 650 MPs. A citizen of a Constituency is known as a Constituent