§ Mr. Noel-Bakerasked the Minister for the Co-ordination of Defence whether he proposes to take steps to utilise in work for national Defence the numerous skilled engineers now being dismissed from the London, Midland and Scottish Railway Company's carriage works at Derby?
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§ Sir T. Inskip:The question of making use of the capacity in the railway workshops has recently been fully discussed with representatives of the railways and is being further explored. In the meantime I may say that I understand a number of men were discharged in April from the Chief Mechanical Engineer's Department of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, but only 20 of these are now on the register at the Derby Employment Exchange and all these are under submission for vacancies.