§ Mr. J. Edenasked the Minister of Labour how many engineering workers have been made redundant during the past eighteen months in the Poole-Bournemouth-Christchurch area; how many of these were employed by the Royal Ordnance Factory, Poole, Vickers Armstrong (Aircraft) Ltd., Hurn, and de Havilland Aircraft Ltd., Christchurch, respectively; and how many found alternative employment within the area and elsewhere respectively.
§ Mr. Iain MacleodNotified redundancies of all kinds of workers from establishments engaged in engineering, the manufacture of aircraft and of metal goods totalled about 1,550 of whom about 1,000 were discharged by aircraft firms and about 430 by the Royal Ordnance Factory, Poole. One hundred and two of those affected are at present registered as unemployed. It is not known how many found alternative employment outside the area.