Development Areas (Factory Closures)

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Board of Trade – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 22 November 1967.

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Photo of Mr Gwynfor Evans Mr Gwynfor Evans , Carmarthen 12:00, 22 November 1967

Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that of all the advance factories built in Wales since October 1964 only two are now tenanted and that he has been unable to give me the number of men employed in them? Is the wretchedly small number of factories tenanted due to the fact that many firms have had to leave?