HC Deb 16 February 1978 vol 944 c330W
Mr. Parry

asked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will make a statement on his recent official visit to Liverpool.

Mr. Golding

My right hon. Friend's recent visit to Liverpool on 9th and 10th February enabled him to meet local trade unionists, employers, local authority representatives and local MPs as well as the local staff of the Department of Employment and of the Manpower Services Commission, and to discuss with them the many problems facing the whole of Merseyside. In these discussions he received much useful advice on how best to develop our special employment measures.

He was also able to visit the Mersey Docks and Harbour Company, meet representatives of the company's employees, and open a new silo at the Royal Seaforth grain terminal.