§ 79. Mr. SWANasked the Minister of Labour if he will consider the advisability 1469 of taking the German prisoners who are now working in the quarries in the Stanhope district, county of Durham, out of the same, and thus find work for some of the unemployed receiving out-of-work pay?
§ Mr. WARDLEI am at the moment in communication with my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for War on the whole question of the continued employment of prisoner labour, and, if the case referred to by the hon. Member is not covered by the general decision which it is hoped will be reached within the next few days, I shall cause inquiry to be made into the position and shall communicate the result to him.