HC Deb 26 January 1960 vol 616 c12
19. Mr. Shinwell

asked the President of the Board of Trade what additional industries are contemplated in the new town of Peterlee.

Mr. J. Rodgers

A new factory under construction at Peterlee should provide some 140 additional jobs, rising to 350. Other developments within travel-to-work distance are expected to provide some 3,000 more jobs.

Mr. Shinwell

Does the Parliamentary Secretary mean by that Answer that work is to be provided for 3,000 people, but not in Peterlee? Is that what he said? Is he aware that I have been receiving these Answers for the past five or six years and I am becoming a little tired of them? Is he aware also that, while other areas are quite deservedly being injected with some new industries, very little is being done for the County of Durham? When will the Government wake up to the needs of the County of Durham?

Mr. Rodgers

We are very much aware of the needs of Peterlee and if there were applications for I.D.C.s we would freely grant them. Further, we bring to the notice of industrialists on the move the needs of Peterlee, but we cannot go very much further than that.