§ 50. Mrs. Mannasked the Prime Minister if he has yet considered a telegram from the Coatbridge Trades Council indicating the demand made by a public meeting convened by them for a steel strip mill for Scotland; and, in view of the 8 per cent. unemployment figures and the obsolete condition of industry in North Lanarkshire, if he will now make a statement in reply to that telegram.
§ The Prime MinisterThe telegram has been acknowledged and I have taken note of its contents. The Government are not yet in a position to make a statement or the siting of the proposed new mill.