HC Deb 19 February 1924 vol 169 c1523
46. Mr. COOPER RAWSON

asked the Prime Minister whether he is prepared to set up a national employment committee to investigate and recommend employment schemes of public utility on a scale commensurate with the present unemployment problem, such committee to be non-party and as small as possible consistent with its representative character?

The LORD PRIVY SEAL (Mr. Clynes)

The Government have set up a Committee of the Cabinet the function of which is to formulate schemes to the greatest practicable extent for the relief of unemployment. This Committee is in a position to obtain the best expert advice on any question coming before it. There are already a large number of schemes before the Committee, which is, however, prepared to examine any further proposals that may be put forward.