Investment Grants

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Board of Trade – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 18 June 1969.

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Photo of Mr David Ginsburg Mr David Ginsburg , Dewsbury 12:00, 18 June 1969

Is my hon. Friend aware that the woollen rag trade is centred in my constituency? I am sure that he will have read the report of the Wool Textile Working Party, which was commissioned by Sir Stafford Cripps, and which reported to the present Prime Minister when he was at the Board of Trade. Is my hon. Friend aware that in that report the woollen rag trade was treated as an integral part of the wool textile industry? That being the case, why is not the woollen rag trade on the same basis as the wool textile industry for the purpose of investment grants?