§ 73. Mr. Simmonsasked the Minister of Supply if he is aware that, owing to inability to obtain sufficient iron and steel scrap, the modernised melting shop at Round Oak Steelworks, Brierley Hill, Staffordshire, is not producing more than two-thirds of its rated capacity and that trained men have been declared redundant in consequence; and, in view of the fact that there is an annual surplus of 450,000 tons of scrap suitable for steelworks in the Midlands, if he will take measures to prevent it being transported at high cost to other areas so long as the local steelworks are willing to utilise it.
§ Mr. SandysI am aware that substantial supplies of scrap are going from the Midlands, as they have always done, to such areas as South Wales, but if these supplies were reduced it would aggravate the shortage of scrap in those areas.