Aircraft Workers (Employment in South Africa)

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Ministry of Labour – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 10 May 1965.

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Photo of Mr Richard Marsh Mr Richard Marsh , Greenwich 12:00, 10 May 1965

Redeployment was not the professed intention of the cancellation, although it is an outcome of it. All the evidence at the moment is that there has not been widespread unemployment as a result. The men are being redeployed into useful industry. If the hon. Gentleman looks again at some of the answers which have been given recently to Questions he will see that the effect of the TSR2 cancellation has been of great benefit indeed to the export industries of this country.