§ Mr. Liddallasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether, in view of the fact that, after plans have been sanc- 602W tioned, it will need more than two years to make them effective for providing post-war employment, he will now set up reconstruction organisations to work out subsidised employment schemes to be ready to be put into operation, with Treasury approval, immediately they are required?
§ Sir J. SimonThe importance of the economic problems which will arise on demobilisation is fully appreciated, but until it is possible to envisage more clearly than at present the conditions likely to prevail at the end of the war, it would be premature to take such steps as my hon. Friend proposes.