§ Mr. Trevor Coxasked the Minister of Labour whether any of the schemes advocated by the Commissioner for Special Areas for England could be adapted to provide work for those who are now unemployed due to the closing down of cotton mills?
§ Mr. E. BrownThere is power under Sections 5 and 6 of the Special Areas Amendment Act, 1937, to give assistance to encourage the establishment of new industrial undertakings in certain areas of heavy unemployment. A site company has been found under Section 5 of the Act to operate in those parts of the county of Lancashire and of neighbouring parts of adjacent counties to which that section may be applied. I have issued directions applying the section to an area of which the Borough of Stalybridge forms a part.