HC Deb 24 June 1936 vol 313 cc1764-5
64. Mr. MESSER

asked the Minister of Labour whether the payment out of the Unemployment Insurance Fund of grants to the Restaurant Public Houses Promotion Company for the scheme to train public-house assistants which the Ministry supported because it was a main object of the company to secure the improvement of conditions for the employe's in the licensed trade will now be ended in view of the company's announcement to the Tower justices, this month, that they are giving up their licensed houses because they no longer felt their improvement was the most important thing to be considered?

Lieut.-Colonel MUIRHEAD

I am not aware of any statement made on behalf of this association which would suggest that the improvement of conditions of employment in licensed houses has ceased to be one of its main objects, and the question of terminating the Ministry's financial assistance to the training scheme to which the hon. Member refers does not therefore arise.

Mr. MESSER

In view of the statement in the Press, is it not possible for the Department to get into touch with these justices?

Lieut.-Colonel MUIRHEAD

I am not aware of the statement but I will make further inquiries.