60. Sir F. HALLasked the Minister of Transport whether the Government have asked the Kent county council to undertake certain arterial road works to relieve unemployment, and have made it a condition of contributing to the cost of the works that the county council shall only engage labour through the labour exchanges, and that the unskilled men shall receive not less than 1s. 11d. an hour; if the county council's rate of pay to their own road staff is 1s. 2d. an hour; and if he will state whether, owing to the imposition of these conditions, the work is held up and the men left unemployed, even if willing to accept 1s. 2d.?
§ The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the MINISTRY OF LABOUR (Sir Montague Barlow)I have been asked to reply. I would refer my hon. and gallant Friend to the answer given on the 23rd instant to the hon. Member for Seven oaks, a copy of which I am sending him.