§ Mr. C. EDWARDSasked the Minister of Labour whether he has received communications from the Mynyddislwyn Urban District Council, requesting him to open an Employment Exchange at Pontllanfraith, Monmouthshire; whether he is aware that this is a railway junction and consequently suited to serve the different valleys converging thereon; that there is over seven miles between Blackwood and Risca Employment Exchanges, which makes it difficult and expensive to register at one or other of these places; and will he consider setting up an intermediate one at the above place?
§ Mr. BETTERTONI have received from the Mynyddislwyn Urban District Council requests for the opening of an Employment Office at Pontllanfraith. The question has been carefully considered, but, having regard to the small number of workpeople involved and to all the local circumstances, the expense of opening a separate office at Pontllanfraith does not appear to me to be justified.