64. Captain O'GRADYasked the Minister of Labour whether he is aware that the circular letter of 1st June, 1922, from the Unemployment Grants Committee to local governing bodies, with reference to providing work for the relief of unemployment with assistance from State funds, has been under consideration of the Hunslet Union Guardians (Leeds), and that the guardians express the view that. as a means of providing employment during the coming autumn and winter, the Government should take in hand the widening and improvement of the public highways of the country; and whether, having regard to the suggestion, the Minister will issue instructions to the Grants Committee accordingly?
Major BARNSTONMy right hon. Friend has received a copy of the resolution of the Hunslet Guardians. Large grants have already been made, by the Ministry of Transport and the Unemployment Grants Committee, for widening and improving public highways, and local authorities were recently invited by the Ministry of Transport to submit further schemes for the coming autumn and winter.