HC Deb 08 July 1987 vol 119 c175W
30. Mr. Robert Hicks

asked the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster what proposals he intends making to stimulate job creation in the Plymouth and south-east Cornwall area designed to offset employment opportunity losses at Her Majesty's dockyard, Devonport; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Atkins

In recognition of the problems existing in the area, the Government have proposed to the European Commission that the Plymouth travel-to-work area should retain the intermediate area status agreed by the Commission for the three-year period to November 1987.

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