HC Deb 24 January 1929 vol 224 c358W
Sir N. GRATTAN-DOYLE

asked the Minister of Labour what number of unemployed have been transferred from the Newcastle area through the machinery of the industrial transference scheme, and to what areas and in what occupations?

Mr. BETTERTON

The transfers to which, I presume, my hon. Friend alludes are made only from areas regarded as having a permanent surplus of labour. The Newcastle area is not one of these.

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