§ Mr. Barry Jonesasked the Secretary of State for Wales if, in the light of the plans by Courtaulds to operate an extended shutdown procedure at Greenfield, Holywell mill, he will meet representatives of the Flint trades council, the Wales Trades Union Congress and Flint and Holywell town councils and other local representatives to review urgently the prospects for the textile industry locally and to plan for the urgent provision of new jobs.
§ Mr. Wyn RobertsNo. We are well aware of the current difficulties in North-East Wales. These are part of the general problems facing the textile industry on which we have undertaken to do everything possible to help, taking account of our international obligations and our economic policies.
On the matter of the provision of new jobs I refer the hon. Member to what I said in the Adjournment debate on 9 July.—[Vol. 988, c. 726–30.]