HC Deb 29 June 1939 vol 349 cc601-2
27. Mr. W. Joseph Stewart

asked the Minister of Labour whether he is aware that in Durham County there are 26,000 persons who have been unemployed for more than a year; and what schemes the Government have apart from the trading estates to provide these people with employment?

Mr. E. Brown

I would refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave him on 27th June.

Mr. Stewart

As there are 6,000 people in Durham who have been unemployed for a year, and in that number between 6,000 and 7,000 have had no work for three, five or 10 years, does it not suggest that the method adopted by the Govern- ment for meeting the problem of long-term unemployment has failed?

Mr. Brown

That is another question.