§ Major GLYNasked the Prime Minister whether the Cabinet Committee that is considering the question of unemployment and the provision of relief work schemes during the winter months can, in consultation with the Scottish Office, arrange for a Sub-Committee, or by some other means, to enable local authorities to submit their difficulties for consideration in view of the peculiar and special difficulties of the shipbuilding, mining and other industries in Scotland, and the relative low rating of. England in comparison with Scotland?
Mr. CHAMBERLAINMachinery already exists in the Unemployment Grants Committee for Exchequer assistance for relief works undertaken by local authorities in Scotland as well as in England, and in the Goschen Committee for loans from the Exchequer to local authorities in exceptional cases of stress. There is no reason to suppose that the difficulties of the Scottish local authorities are not as adequately met by these arrangements as those of English and Welsh authorities.