§ 3. Mr. H. Johnsonasked the Minister of Labour when his Department will be building in Brighton a Remploy factory to provide sheltered employment for the severely disabled.
§ Sir W. MoncktonI cannot at present say when Remploy Ltd. is likely to be in a position to build a factory at Brighton.
§ Mr. JohnsonIs the Minister aware of the terrible psychological effect on these severely disabled men of years of enforced unemployment, some of whom are getting to the stage where they regard themselves as unemployable, and will he do everything he can with the Treasury and his own Department to ensure that a Remploy factory is built in Brighton at the earliest possible date?
§ Sir W. MoncktonThe hope to build a Remploy factory in Brighton is based on the fact that it is high in the list, but I should be less than frank if I did not say that one of the difficulties about Remploy Ltd. is that it appeared to my predecessors, as it appears to me, that they have gone rather fast in the number of factories built, and they have to consolidate the position before they can build any more.