HC Deb 22 November 1967 vol 754 cc388-9W
Mr. Gwynfor Evans

asked the Secretary of State for Wales if he will ensure that a detailed time-table of redundancies in the Welsh coal industry is prepared, together with a correlated programme of alternative employment, which will avoid additional unemployment in, and migration from, Wales.

Mrs. White

The Government are tackling these problems on a broader front than the hon. Member appears to have in mind. I would refer him to the reply which my right hon. Friend the President of the Board of Trade gave to my hon. Friend the member for Rhondda, East (Mr. G. Elfed Davies) on 14th November,—[Vol. 754, c.84–6.]

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