§ 51. Mr. Mappasked the President of the Board of Trade how he proposes to arrest the three-fold increase in unemployment in May, 1962, compared with 1961, in the Oldham area and to provide full employment for those 2,000 persons, plus 680 additional persons likely to become redundant through the imminent closure of four further mills, and 60 others in a plastic factory.
§ Mr. D. PriceMy right hon. Friend is prepared to approve further suitable industrial development in areas in the cotton belt wherever the firms concerned cannot be steered to development districts.