§ Mr. GAVAN-DUFFYasked the Minister of Health if his attention has been called to the condition to which more than a thousand families have been reduced in the Cleator Moor area-through the continuance of more than three years of trade depression, which has been aggravated recently by the closing down of iron-ore mines; is he aware that these people can no longer subsist upon either Poor Law relief or unemployment benefit; and will he have immediate inquiry made into the physical deterioration which is now becoming widespread in this area, with the object of checking the development of the existing distress?
§ Mr. WHEATLEYI am aware generally of the conditions in the Cleator Moor area, but I will have further enquiries made.