§ Mr. HALL-CAINEasked the Minister of Labour whether he will consider arranging consultations with county agricultural committees as to the possibility of absorbing a large number of unemployed workers into agricultural work during the summer months on condition that they still continue to receive unemployment benefit, that the work is of such a nature that other agricultural workers will not be displaced, and that it shall only apply to such unemployed persons as shall volunteer to participate?
Mr. HUDSONArrangements have been made regularly for some years in co-operation with representatives of the farmers to offer to suitable unemployed workers during the summer months agricultural work in areas where sufficient numbers of agricultural workers are not available; but I am afraid the adoption of the condition suggested by my hon. Friend is quite impracticable.