§ 38. Mr. Maurice Edelmanasked the Minister of Supply whether, in order to avoid redundancy in motor factories now supplying the export market, he will make an emergency allocation of steel to them from reserve stocks.
§ 40. Mr. H. Hyndasked the Minister of Supply whether, in view of the unsatisfactory arrangements for allocating steel among small businesses, a more just scheme is now being worked out.
§ Mr. SandysI would ask the hon. Members to be good enough to await the statement which I hope to make in the debate later today.
§ Mr. EdelmanDoes not the right hon. Gentleman understand the meaning of flexibility? Will he not, in the meantime, see to it that steel is switched from inessential industries to vitally important export industries, where there is already increasing unemployment?
§ Mr. SandysI am already in correspondence with the hon. Gentleman about this matter.