§ 71. Sir JOHN HASLAMasked the President of the Board of Trade if, in his reply to the foreign firms who apply to his Department for details of available sites for new factories, he will impress upon them the advantages possessed by Lancashire for such purposes?
§ The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the BOARD of TRADE (Mr. Hore-Belisha)It would, as I think my hon. Friend will realise, be impossible for any Government Department to adopt a suggestion whereby one area could be treated preferentially as compared with other areas.
§ Sir J. HASLAMDoes not the hon. Gentleman recognise that Lancashire has 1629 hundreds of empty factories where the streets are finished, where power and public services are laid on, and where a very high standard of efficiency exists among the workpeople, who live around the factories, and that it would be a tremendous saving.
§ Mr. HORE-BELISHAI have no reason to dispute any of those statements.
§ Mr. HORE-BELISHAYes, certainly.