§ 72. Mr. PENNYasked the Minister of Health whether he will consider, in view of the shortage of bricklayers and plasterers, the desirability of devising, in conjunction with the trade unions concerned, some scheme in localities where the housing problem is most acute, whereby men in receipt of unemployment benefit for a period in excess of, say, two or three months, will be required to take a course of instruction to qualify them as bricklayers and plasterers, and at the same time stipulate that all houses receiving a State subsidy must employ a certain percentage of these trainees?
Mr. CHAMBERLAINI will submit the suggestion of my hon. Friend for the 572 observations of the Building Industry Committee, which is representative of employers and employed in the building industry, and was set up by the late Minister of Health to advise and assist in carrying out the scheme embodied in the Act of 1924, particularly as regards the development and co-ordination of the supply of labour for house building.
§ Mr. H. WILLIAMSIs the supply of bricks in excess of the number of men available for labour?