§ 3. Mr. Mainwaringasked the Minister of Labour whether all activities under the Commissioners for Special Areas are now suspended; and whether it is intended to resume at any time before the end of the present war the task of preparing sites for new industries and thus anticipate some aspects of the inevitable economic dislocation that will follow?
§ Mr. E. BrownIn reply to the former part of the Question I have nothing to add to the answer I gave the hon. Member for Chester-le-Street (Mr. Lawson) on 26th October and to the statement I made on 12th December in the course of Debate on the Expiring Laws Continuance Bill. With regard to the latter part of the Question, I would refer the hon. Member to the answers given by the Prime Minister on 5th December to my hon. Friend the Member for Southampton (Mr. Craven-Ellis) and on 28th January to the hon. Member for Llanelly (Mr. J. Griffiths).