§ 31. Mr. Haymanasked the President of the Board of Trade what success has attended the further efforts he has made to persuade Imperial Chemical Industries to divert to its factory at Camborne another of its industries to replace the safety-fuse industry transferred to Scotland.
§ Mr. MaudlingI understand that the company has no alternative use for the factory but is now, in consultation with my Department, seeking to interest new firms in the property.
§ Mr. HaymanIs the President of the Board of Trade aware that many people in Camborne and Redruth feel that the great industrial concern of I.C.I. is inhuman and almost indecent in the way that it has relinquished a factory which has been in production there for more than a century and which not long ago employed 500 workers? Cannot this concern do something to put industry into the area?
§ Mr. MaudlingI believe that this company makes an immense contribution to the economic and social well-being of this country.