Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Employment – in the House of Commons am 12:00 am ar 4 Chwefror 1947.
I understand from the Registrar-General that the population of Glamorgan at 1st November, 1946, was higher than it was 35 years ago, although in most of the intermediate years it seems to have been higher than now. The Government are pursuing an active policy designed to encourage the establishment of new industries in South Wales, but in the meantime it would be wrong to discourage unemployed workers in South Wales from finding productive work elsewhere, particularly under the special arrangements I have introduced for temporary transfer.