HC Deb 18 April 1940 vol 359 cc1133-4W
Sir R. Wells

asked the Prime Minister which Department is charged with foreseeing the problems of unemployment which will arise from end-of-war industrial dislocation, so as to avoid a repetition of the failure of the 1918 Ministry of Reconstruction because the Government was then taken unawares by industrial dislocation following the change from war to peace conditions?

The Prime Minister

The problems of post-war unemployment concern a number of Departments and no single one of them can be charged with the solution. The material for a co-ordinated study of the whole question is available, but it will not be possible to formulate definite plans before the conditions of the post-war situation become more clear than they are at present.